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by dekken_ 1153 days ago
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> "The Engineering of Consent" is an essay by Edward Bernays first published in 1947,

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"Inventing Reality" by Michael Parenti is another book on the subject.
barthes mythologies
The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
Simulacra and Simulation. And other works by Jean Baudrillard. His philosophy focuses on the unreal nature of contemporary culture due to mass communication and mass consumption.
“Crystallizing Public Opinion” (1923) is another important Bernays text.
And he surely knows what he is talking about.