Tone of voice
Almost angry that people sit
by and watch the government manipulate or thoughts.
Key points
Invisible Government
Manipulation of the mass
consciousness
The way our society is
structured
Mechanised society
Society:
“those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible
government which is the true ruling power of our country”
Culture:
“As civilization has become more complex the technical means have been invented
and developed by which opinion may be regimented”
Technology: “With the
printing press and the newspaper, the railroad, the telephone, telegraph, radio
and airplanes, ideas can be spread rapidly and even instantaneously over the
whole of America"
Political:
“Modern means of communication of getting quick replies and effective
discussion have opened a new world of political processes”
The main issue that Bernays covers in this article is
the fact that our mechanized society has been man made by an invisible
government to mold and manipulate our minds as a form of order and control.
This sense of control has been created and filtered into the public over many
years by rich organisations that are predominately white men.
The ‘invisible government’ controls our westernized
society from the shadows; they do this in multiple ways through the use of
propaganda that is force fed to the public via numerous sources of media,
including newspapers, posters and television. They plant subtle forms of
control and due to the rising technological world, these ideas rapidly spread throughout
the public and into the mass conscious, meaning that the government tell us lie
after lie and because the public are being manipulated into forms of control
they will believe everything they see on T.V.
To summaries, modern society’s like America are being
manipulated through propaganda and are given a false sense of free will. Free will
is something that has been taken from us and used against us. We don’t realize
it but the corrupt system has made us think the way we do. Brainwashed.
