Mass delusion is an important tool of oppressors because they can’t survive free expression. That’s why the First Amendment’s a target.
Nearly 100 years ago, Walter Lippmann wrote about “the
manufacture of consent” in his classic work, “Public Opinion.” On the
heels of that book, Edward Bernays penned a little volume called
“Propaganda,” in which he stated that an elite would always be
responsible for making the public aware of “new ideas” which the public
would then act upon as the elite nudged them into it. Related, but more
in-depth is Jacques Ellul’s 1962 book, “Propaganda: The Formation of
Men’s Attitudes.”
Political propaganda aims to mobilize the masses to move an agenda
forward. That’s most effectively done when the masses are unaware of the
process. It’s what “community organizers” work towards, whether they
know it or not. Once the masses are mobilized to push for a cause, the
propagandists’ goals can be put into law.
In fact, many newly propagandized ideas seem to have taken America by
storm just in the past decade or so. Same-sex marriage is only one of
those ideas. Transgenderism is now eclipsing that notion, and its
propaganda techniques—wrapped in the language of civil rights—are
getting Americans on board with the idea of erasing all sex distinctions
in law, including their own. It’s as though Americans are
buying into a fast-talking sales pitch without being allowed to read the
print, whether it’s large print or small.
There’s more on the horizon: a singles’ rights movement that promises to end legal recognition of all marriage. Then there is transhumanism, which includes a push to end “fleshism” by enacting laws that protect non-biological entities from discrimination.
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