By "truce", do you mean the several days when the troops crossed No Man's Land and fraternized, at Christmas probably, and expected that the war could not restart?
A few weeks ago I re-read my grandmother's brother's book, looked at his photos, from the front line in WW1. He was really fried but held it together magnificently. Another pastime of kings. A general spoke of the US Civil War as "the pageant is (finally!) over". Rather than fraternize with the enemy, toward the end of the Swedish experience with stupid kings' pageants, the Finnish draftees protested in a new way. They chased down and slaughtered all the professional soldiers on the other side. Something got through to the Swedish about stupid king's wars about that time and they have not bothered the world since, but the oligarchy came back with another pendulum swing. The Bernays types leveraged what the Finns did into idealogical war. Later the Rand thinktank came up with a tool to get people to fight,"Use religion". Religion, beyond idealogy, nuclear ideology. Now we have neocon neolib economic theory become religion, taking us all the way to a belief that the love of money is the root of all GOOD. We already had Orwell, killing to save, and now we kills to save from "unregulated sympathy". We also kill to save OURSELVES from "unregulated sympathy", like an exercise in scientologist exorcism. Unregulated sympathy would be treason against Darwin, and it is Darwin and Plato who are enthroned by the neocon belief that the love of money is the root of all evil. Therefore, we must purge ourselves of unregulated sympathy by our zeal in purging others of unapproved sympathy. If we baptize others with white phosphorus, there exists the hope that we may not need whiskey pete to take unregulated sympathy out of souls. Those we baptize with white phosphorus will not have a lot of unregulated sympathy for us, one supposes, and that too, might serve Darwin to suppress any counter to the love of money, root of all GOOD. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Bob Donatelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bernays was the architect of the Creel Commission---which got the USA into WW1 just as a truce was underway. > > The Creel Commission was a PR group that worked up the American people to hate Germans---so that they would be willing to go to war---which they did---and the devastating defeat of Germany with the subsequent Treaty of Versailles crushed Germany so severely that it paved the road for Hitler. > > So we can thank Bernays for creating Hitler. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: roscoe drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:15:40 AM > Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] FREUD, BERNAYS AND REICH > > > Okay "RoadsEnd",, why don't you now tell us what was, in your words, very good about it. > > > > > > RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: > Tis very good. > > Peace, > K > > > On Sep 16, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: > > Haven't seen this yet, but it looks good. -Vmann > > > http://tracker. conspiracycentra l.net/torrents- details.php? id=1777 > > The Century Of The Self - Part 1of4 > Happiness Machines > > The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires. > > Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar. > > His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile. > > It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world. > > http://tracker. conspiracycentra l.net/torrents- details.php? id=1778 > > The Century Of The Self - Part 2of4 > The Engineering of Consent > > The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses. > > Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying premise - that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this hidden enemy within the human mind. > > Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays, provided the centrepiece philosophy. The US government, big business, and the CIA used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. But this was not a cynical exercise in manipulation. Those in power believed that the only way to make democracy work and create a stable society was to repress the savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal American life. > > http://tracker. conspiracycentra l.net/torrents- details.php? id=1779 > > The Century Of The Self - Part 3of4 > There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed > > In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself. > > Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people's minds by business and politics. > > This programme shows how this rapidly developed in America through self-help movements like Werber Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training - into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation. > > But the American corporations soon realised that this new self was not a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self. > > http://tracker. conspiracycentra l.net/torrents- details.php? id=1780 > > The Century Of The Self - Part 4of4 > Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering > > This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self. > > Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products. > > Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s. > > The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them. > > = >
