A Project Humanbeingsfirst Document
Foreword Obama: Manufacturing A Savior––A Case Study In Social Engineering
Obama: Manufacturing A Savior
A Case Study In Social Engineering
Fabricating Myths, Mantras, Consent and Dissent, for Imperial Mobilization
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Sunday October 11, 2009
Foreword
Edward L. Bernays began his seminal 1928 book, egregiously titled “PROPAGANDA”, with these revealing words in the very first chapter “ORGANIZING CHAOS”:
‘THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet. They govern us by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure. Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons—a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million—who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.’
Those “new ways to bind and guide the world” have come a long way since 1928, as was observed by the late behavioralist and essayistAldous Huxley. He termed the zenith of such binding principle for organizing society the “Ultimate Revolution” whereby, people could actually be made to love their own servitude. Novelist George Orwell too looked at the organizing principle for forcibly binding people to a tortuous conformantregimen, which we have nowadays, unfortunately, become all too familiar with as the “United We Stand” in the most burlesque of modern absurdities: The War on Terrorism. The sophisticated fabrication of its “doctrinal motivation” and “intellectual commitment” to mobilize the democratic masses for “imperial mobilization”, was examined in considerable depth in the author’s 2003 book Prisoners of the Cave (http://PrisonersoftheCave.org ).
Modernity has become a complex and refined amalgam of all these age old techniques of social control to “bind and guide the world” for the same organizing principle now pedantically, almost respectably, called SOCIAL ENGINEERING.
It spans the remarkable gamut from the 2500 years old military classic The Art of War applied to civilian populations, through Machiavelli, to the Hegelian Dialectics driven modern political statecraft. All have drawn upon – whether knowingly or unknowingly – the unfathomable Freudian techniques formalized by Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays, to tap into the irrational sub-conscious mind as a means of exercising subliminal behavior control. Playing on the hidden fears, desires, passions, and imagination of people is certainly an art as old as mankind. In the clever hands of latter day propagandists employing modern psychological methods, including those imagined by Huxley and Orwell to instrument behavior controls, mind manipulation has been taken to new heights of precision for mass behavior control.
We often refer to such controls as Psy-Ops – a military term to mean Psychological Operations upon the mind of anyone, or any group that might stand in the way of a predefined objective. Rallying the freedom-loving public around an unpopular political cause or war without their putting up an effective civil disobedience can be as much a predefined objective, as convincing the enemy troops to surrender without putting up significant armed resistance. An accurate nom de guerre is surely Mind-Warfare.
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