IDIOCRACY : Freud´s ideas misused by nephew Bernays Video

This is the first stepping-stone to the western society-propaganda of yesterday, today and tommorow... Campaigns This list is incomplete Some of the campaigns Bernays worked on: * In the 1920s, working for the American Tobacco Company, he sent a group of young models to march in the New York City parade. He then told the press that a group of women's rights marchers would light "Torches of Freedom". On his signal, the models lit Lucky Strike cigarettes in front of the eager photographers. The New York Times (1 April 1929) printed: "Group of Girls Puff at Cigarettes as a Gesture of 'Freedom'". This helped to break the taboo against women smoking in public. During this decade he also handled publicity for the NAACP * Bernays once engineered a "pancake breakfast" with vaudevillians for Calvin Coolidge in what is widely considered one of the first overt media acts for a president. * Bernays used his uncle Sigmund Freud's ideas to help convince the public, among other things, that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast * In October 1929, Bernays was involved in promoting "Light's Golden Jubilee." The event, which spanned across several major cities in the US, was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of the light-bulb (note: the light-bulb was in fact invented by Joseph Swan). The publicity elements of the Jubilee including the special issuance of a US postage stamp and Edison's "re-creating" the invention of the light bulb for a ...