Advertising / Marketing / Public Relations / Edward Bernays Manipulation corrupts everything + anything. Diary of Anne Frank May 15, 2025
Advertising / Marketing / Public Relations / Edward Bernays Manipulation corrupts everything + anything. Diary of Anne Frank May 15, 2025
"As an outsider I always thought the downfall of the USA would be tragic and violent. Never thought it would be boring and just at the hands of a guy in face paint." - https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/114512309270786952
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985