Democracy, The Most Dangerous
Religion
Part 13 - Bernays and Democracy
Control
By Larry Romanoff, December 21, 2022
Democracy, The Most Dangerous Religion e-book
From their
experiences in the formulation, manipulation and control of public perception
and opinion with the CPI, both Lippman and Bernays later wrote of their open
contempt for a “malleable and hopelessly ill-informed public” in
America.[1] Lippmann had already written that the people in
a democracy were simply “a bewildered herd” of “ignorant and
meddlesome outsiders”[2] who should be maintained only as “interested
spectators”, to be controlled by the elite “secret government”. They concluded
that in a multi-party electoral system (a democracy), public opinion had to be “created
by an organized intelligence” and “engineered by an invisible
government”, with the people relegated to the status of uninformed
observers, a situation that has existed without interruption in the US for the
past 95 years. Bernays believed that only a few possessed the necessary insight
into the Big Picture to be entrusted with this sacred task, and considered
himself as one member of this select few.
