Posted by Rich on July 4, 2019, 5:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Good post. nm"
"Then, of course, for the last one hundred years has been the incredible growth in the importance and spread of advertising, a form of 'cult' that used a variety of highly sophisticated methods to manipulate the population into wanting and buying products, and very quickly the same methods were employed to sell political ideas, political parties and politicians."
Bernays!
Remember how he got women in the 1920's to smoke - he called the cigarettes "freedom torches"!