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Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling course to dispense the masses. Information technology shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and acceptable. This article looks at the workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its power structure and the techniques it uses, in order to understand its truthful role in order.

Virtually of the articles on this site discuss occult symbolism institute in objects of popular culture. From these articles ascend many legitimate questions relating to the purpose of those symbols and the motivations of those who place them in that location, but it is impossible for me to provide satisfactory answers to these questions without mentioning many other concepts and facts. This commodity explores the theoretical and methodological background of the analyses presented on this site as well as introducing the main scholars of the field of mass communications. Some people read my articles and think I'yard proverb "Lady Gaga wants to control our minds". That is not the case. She is simply a modest part of the huge system that is the mass media.

Programming Through Mass Media

Mass media are media forms designed to achieve the largest audition possible. They include television, movies, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, records, video games and the internet. Many studies accept been conducted in the past century to measure out the furnishings of mass media on the population in social club to discover the all-time techniques to influence it. From those studies emerged the scientific discipline of Communications, which is used in marketing, public relations and politics. Mass communication is a necessary tool to ensure the functionality of a big republic; it is also a necessary tool for a dictatorship. Information technology all depends on its usage.

In the 1958 preface to A Dauntless New World, Aldous Huxley paints a rather grim portrait of order. He believes information technology is controlled by an "impersonal force", a ruling elite, which manipulates the population using various methods.

"Impersonal forces over which we have nearly no command seem to be pushing united states all in the management of the Dauntless New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who take adult a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses."
– Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

His bleak outlook is not a unproblematic hypothesis or a paranoid mirage. Information technology is a documented fact, nowadays in the world's almost important studies on mass media. Here are some of them:

Elite Thinkers

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippman.

Walter Lippmann, an American intellectual, writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner brought forth one of the first works concerning the usage of mass media in America. In Public Opinion (1922), Lippmann compared the masses to a "slap-up beast" and a "bewildered herd" that needed to be guided by a governing class. He described the ruling elite as "a specialized form whose interests reach beyond the locality." This form is equanimous of experts, specialists, and bureaucrats. Co-ordinate to Lippmann, the experts, who oftentimes are referred to as "elites," are to exist a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the main defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the "omnicompetent denizen." The trampling and roaring "bewildered herd" has its office: to exist "the interested spectators of action," i.e. not participants. Participation is the duty of "the responsible man", which is non a regular citizen.

Mass media and propaganda are therefore tools that must exist used by the elite to rule the public without physical coercion. I important concept presented by Lippmann is the "manufacture of consent", which is, in short, the manipulation of public stance to accept the elite'due south agenda. Information technology is Lippmann's opinion that the general public is not qualified to reason and to decide on important issues. It is therefore important for the elite to decide "for its own good" and so sell those decisions to the masses.

"That the industry of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process past which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain plenty. . . . equally a event of psychological enquiry, coupled with the modern ways of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking identify, infinitely more significant than whatsoever shifting of economic power. . . . Under the impact of propaganda, non necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the former constants of our thinking take get variables. Information technology is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the man heart. Where we human action on that theory we betrayal ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of coincidental opinion if we are to deal with the globe beyond our reach."
–Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

It might exist interesting to note that Lippmann is one of the founding fathers of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the most influential foreign policy recall tank in the world. This fact should requite y'all a modest hint of the mind state of the elite concerning the usage of media.

"Political and economic power in the United states is full-bodied in the hands of a "ruling elite" that controls nigh of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the nearly influential foundations, major private universities and virtually public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Quango of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a "school for statesmen" and "comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a grouping of men, similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable positions backside the scenes. The creation of the Un was a Quango project, as well as the Imf and the World Bank."
– Steve Jacobson, Listen Control in the United States

Some current members of the CFR include David Rockefeller, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, mega-church pastor Rick Warren and the CEOs of major corporations such as CBS, Nike, Coca-Cola, and Visa.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung.

Carl Jung is the founder of analytical psychology (too known as Jungian psychology), which emphasizes understanding the psyche by exploring dreams, art, mythology, organized religion, symbols, and philosophy. The Swiss therapist is at the origin of many psychological concepts used today such as the Archetype, the Complex, the Persona, the Introvert/Extrovert, and Synchronicity. He was highly influenced past the occult background of his family. Carl Gustav, his granddad, was an gorging Freemason (he was Thousand Master) and Jung himself discovered that some of his ancestors were Rosicrucians. This might explain his keen involvement in Eastern and Western philosophy, abracadabra, star divination and symbolism. Ane of his most important (and misunderstood) concepts was the Collective Unconscious.

"My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which nosotros believe to exist the just empirical psyche (even if nosotros tack on the personal unconscious every bit an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite grade to certain psychic contents."
– Carl Jung, The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

The commonage unconscious transpires through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilizations. Archetypal symbols seem to exist embedded in our collective subconscious, and, when exposed to them, we demonstrate natural allure and fascination. Occult symbols can, therefore, exert a great touch on people, even if many individuals were never personally introduced to the symbol's esoteric meaning. Mass media thinkers, such as Edward D. Bernays, found in this concept a great way to manipulate the public'south personal and commonage unconscious.

Edward  Bernays

Edward Bernays.

Edward Bernays is considered to be the "begetter of public relations" and used concepts discovered by his uncle Sigmund Freud to manipulate the public using the subconscious. He shared Walter Lippmann's view of the general population by considering information technology irrational and subject to the "herd instinct". In his opinion, the masses need to be manipulated by an invisible authorities to ensure the survival of democracy.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic lodge. Those who manipulate this unseen machinery of social club constitute an invisible regime which is the true ruling power of our country.

Nosotros 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 manner in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together every bit a smoothly functioning society.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner chiffonier."
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Bernay's trailblazing marketing campaigns profoundly inverse the functioning of American society. He basically created "consumerism" by creating a civilization wherein Americans bought for pleasure instead of buying for survival. For this reason, he was considered by Life Magazine to be in the Top 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.

Harold Lasswell

Harold Lasswell.

In 1939-1940, the University of Chicago was the host of a serial of secret seminars on communications. These think tanks were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and involved the nearly prominent researchers in the fields of communications and sociological studies. Ane of these scholars was Harold Lasswell, a leading American political scientist, and communications theorist, specializing in the analysis of propaganda. He was also of the opinion that a commonwealth, a regime ruled by the people, could not sustain itself without a specialized aristocracy shaping and molding public stance through propaganda.

In his Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Lasswell explained that when elites lack the requisite force to compel obedience, social managers must plough to "a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda." He added the conventional justification: we must recognize the "ignorance and stupidity [of] … the masses and not succumb to democratic dogmatisms virtually men being the all-time judges of their own interests."

Lasswell extensively studied the field of content assay in order to understand the effectiveness of unlike types of propaganda.  In his essay Contents of Advice, Lasswell explained that, in club to empathize the significant of a bulletin (i.e. a movie, a speech, a book, etc.), one should take into account the frequency with which sure symbols announced in the message, the management in which the symbols endeavour to persuade the audition'south opinion, and the intensity of the symbols used.

Lasswell was famous for his media assay model based on:

Who (says) What (to) Whom (in) What Channel (with) What Effect

By this model, Lasswell indicates that in order to properly analyze a media product, ane must look at who produced the product (the people who ordered its creation), who was information technology aimed at (the target audience) and what were the desired effects of this product (to inform, to convince, to sell, etc.) on the audience.

Using a Rihanna video as an example, the analysis would be as follows: WHO PRODUCED: Vivendi Universal; WHAT: pop creative person Rihanna; TO WHOM: consumers betwixt the ages of 9 and 25; WHAT Channel: music video; and WHAT Issue: selling the artist, her vocal, her prototype and her message.

The analyzes of videos and movies on The Vigilant Citizen identify great importance on the "who is behind" the messages communicated to the public. The term "Illuminati" is oftentimes used to describe this small aristocracy grouping covertly ruling the masses. Although the term sounds quite caricatured and conspiratorial, it aptly describes the elite's affinities with secret societies and occult knowledge. However, I personally detest using the term "conspiracy theory" to describe what is happening in the mass media. If all the facts concerning the elitist nature of the manufacture are readily available to the public, can it still exist considered a  "conspiracy theory"?

There used to be a variety of viewpoints, ideas, and opinions in popular civilisation. The consolidation of media corporations has, however, produced a standardization of the cultural industry. Ever wondered why all recent music sounds the same and all recent movies look the aforementioned? The following is part of the answer:

Media Ownership

As depicted in the graph to a higher place, the number of corporations owning the bulk of U.S. media outlets went from fifty to v in less than xx years. Here are the top corporations evolving around the world and the avails they ain.

one- AOL Time Warner

"A listing of the backdrop controlled by AOL Time Warner takes ten typed pages list 292 split up companies and subsidiaries. Of these, twenty-2 are joint ventures with other major corporations involved in varying degrees with media operations. These partners include 3Com, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Ticketmaster, American Express, Homestore, Sony, Viva, Bertelsmann, Polygram, and Amazon.com. Some of the more familiar fully endemic properties of Time Warner include Volume-of-the-Month Society; Little, Brownish publishers; HBO, with its seven channels; CNN; seven specialized and foreign-linguistic communication channels; Route Runner; Warner Brothers Studios; Weight Watchers; Popular Science; and 50-ii different record labels."
– Ben Bagdikan, The New Media Monopoly

AOL Fourth dimension Warner owns:

• 64 magazines, including Fourth dimension, Life, People, MAD Magazine and DC Comics
• Warner Bros, New Line and Fine Line Features in cinema
• More than 40 music labels including Warner Bros, Atlantic and Elektra
• Many boob tube networks such as WB Networks, HBO, Cinemax, TNT, Cartoon Network and CNN
• Madonna, Sean Paul, The White Stripes

2- Viacom

Viacom owns:

• CBS, MTV, MTV2, UPN, VH1, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TNN, CMT and BET
• Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films
• Blockbuster Videos
• 1800 screens in theaters through Famous Players

3- The Walt Disney Company

"Disney ownership of a hockey team chosen The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim does not begin to describe the vastness of the kingdom. Hollywood is still its symbolic eye, with eight picture production studios and distributors: Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax, Buena Vista Home Video, Buena Vista Dwelling house Amusement, Buena Vista International, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures.

The Walt Disney Company controls eight volume house imprints nether Walt Disney Visitor Book Publishing and ABC Publishing Group; seventeen magazines; the ABC Television Network, with x owned and operated stations of its own including in the five top markets; thirty radio stations, including all the major markets; eleven cablevision channels, including Disney, ESPN (jointly), A&East, and the History Channel; thirteen international circulate channels stretching from Australia to Brazil; seven production and sports units around the earth; and seventeen Internet sites, including the ABC group, ESPN.sportszone, NFL.com, NBAZ.com, and NASCAR.com. Its five music groups include the Buena Vista, Lyric Street, and Walt Disney labels, and live theater productions growing out of the movies The King of beasts King, Beauty and the Beast, and King David."
– Ibid

The Walt Disney Company owns:

• ABC, Disney Channel, ESPN, A&E, History Channel
• Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Film Corp., Dimension and Buena Vista International
• Miley Cyrus/ Hannah Montana, Selena Gomez, Jonas Brothers

4- Vivendi Universal

Vivendi Universal owns:

• 27% of Usa music sales, labels include: Interscope, Geffen, A&M, Island, Def Jam, MCA, Mercury, Motown and Universal
• Universal Studios, Studio Canal, Polygram Films, Culvert +
• Numerous internet and cell phone companies
• Lady Gaga, The Blackness Eyed Peas, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Jay-Z

5- Sony

Sony owns:

• Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics
• 15% of US Music sales, labels include Columbia, Epic, Sony, Arista, Jive and RCA Records
• Beyonce, Shakira, Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera

A limited number of actors in the cultural industry ways a limited amount of viewpoints and ideas making their way to the general public. Information technology as well ways that a single message tin easily saturate all forms of media to generate consent (i.due east. "at that place are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq").

The Standardization of Homo Idea

An ad for a telly fix. Symbolic.

The merger of media companies in the final decades generated a small oligarchy of media conglomerates. The Idiot box shows we follow, the music we listen to, the movies we watch and the newspapers nosotros read are all produced by 5 corporations. The owners of those conglomerates have close ties with the world's elite and, in many means, they ARE the elite. By owning all of the possible outlets having the potential to accomplish the masses, these conglomerates have the power to create in the minds of the people a unmarried and cohesive worldview, engendering a "standardization of human thought".

Even movements or styles that are considered marginal are, in fact, extensions of mainstream thinking. Mass media produce their ain rebels who definitely wait the part only are yet part of the institution and practise non question any of it. Artists, creations, and ideas that practise not fit the mainstream way of thinking are mercilessly rejected and forgotten by the conglomerates, which in plow makes them well-nigh disappear from society itself. Nevertheless, ideas that are deemed to exist valid and desirable to be accepted by society are skillfully marketed to the masses in order to make them go a self-evident norm.

In 1928, Edward Bernays already saw the immense potential of motility pictures to standardize thought:

"The American move picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the globe today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are fabricated to come across market demands, they reflect, emphasize and fifty-fifty exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The movement pic avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. Equally the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey amusement."
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

These facts were flagged as dangers to homo freedom in the 1930'south by thinkers of the school of Frankfurt such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse. They identified iii main bug with the cultural manufacture. The industry can:

1. reduce human beings to the state of mass by hindering the development of emancipated individuals, who are capable of making rational decisions;
2. replace the legitimate bulldoze for autonomy and self-awareness by the condom laziness of conformism and passivity; and
3. validate the idea that men actually seek to escape the absurd and fell world in which they live by losing themselves in a hypnotic land self-satisfaction.

The notion of escapism is even more relevant today with the advent of online video games, 3D movies, and home theaters. The masses, constantly seeking state-of-the-art amusement, will resort to high-budget products that tin can only exist produced by the biggest media corporations in the world. These products contain carefully calculated letters and symbols which are zilch more than and zero less than entertaining propaganda. The public has been trained to LOVE its propaganda to the extent that it spends its hard-earned money to be exposed to it. Propaganda (used in both political, cultural and commercial sense) is no longer the coercive or authoritative advice form found in dictatorships: information technology has become the synonym of entertainment and pleasance.

"In regard to propaganda, the early advocates of universal literacy and a gratuitous press envisaged but two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western backer democracies — the evolution of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account human's nearly infinite appetite for distractions."
– Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

A single slice of media often does not have a lasting effect on the man psyche. Mass media, however, by its omnipresent nature, creates a living environment we evolve in on a daily basis. It defines the norm and excludes the undesirable. The same way railroad vehicle horses vesture blinders and then they can merely see what is right in front of them, the masses can only see where they are supposed to go.

"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of printing, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total surroundings renders the influence of propaganda almost unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
– Jacques Ellul

One of the reasons mass media successfully influences lodge is due to the extensive amount of research on cognitive sciences and human being nature that has been applied to it.

Manipulation Techniques

"Publicity is the deliberate endeavor to manage the public'southward perception of a subject area. The subjects of publicity include people (for instance, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment."

The drive to sell products and ideas to the masses has to lead to an unprecedented amount of research on human behavior and on the human psyche. Cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, semiotics, linguistics and other related fields were and all the same are extensively researched through well-funded studies.

"No group of sociologists can gauge the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of textile about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community."
– Marshall McLuhan, The Extensions of Man

The results of those studies are practical to advertisements, movies, music videos and other media in guild to make them every bit influential every bit possible. The art of marketing is highly calculated and scientific because it must reach both the individual and the collective consciousness. In loftier-upkeep cultural products, a video is never "only a video," Images, symbols, and meanings are strategically placed in social club to generate a desired effect.

"It is with knowledge of the man beingness, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques."
– Propagandes, Jacques Ellul (free translation)

Today's propaganda almost never uses rational or logical arguments. It directly taps into a human's near primal needs and instincts in order to generate an emotional and irrational response. If we always idea rationally, nosotros probably wouldn't buy l% of what we own. Babies and children are constantly constitute in advertisements targeting women for a specific reason: studies take shown that images of children trigger in women an instinctual need to nurture, to care and to protect, ultimately leading to a sympathetic bias towards the advertisement.

Foreign old 7up ad using the cuteness of babies

Sex is ubiquitous in mass media, equally information technology draws and keeps the viewer's attention. Information technology directly connects to our animal demand to breed and to reproduce, and, when triggered, this instinct tin can instantly overshadow whatsoever other rational thoughts in our brain.

Subliminal Perception

What if the messages described higher up were able to reach directly the viewers' subconscious heed, without the viewers even realizing what is happening? That is the goal of subliminal perception. The phrase subliminal advertising was coined in 1957 by the U.s. market researcher James Vicary, who said he could get moviegoers to "beverage Coca-Cola" and "eat popcorn" by flashing those messages onscreen for such a brusque time that viewers were unaware.

"Subliminal perception is a deliberate process created by communications technicians, by which you receive and respond to information and instructions without being consciously aware of the instructions"
– Steve Jacobson, Listen Control in the United states

This technique is oftentimes used in marketing and we all know that sex sells.

Although some sources claim that subliminal advertising is ineffective or even an urban myth, the documented usage of this technique in mass media proves that creators believe in its powers. Recent studies have also proven its effectiveness, especially when the message is negative.

" A team from University College London, funded by the Wellcome Trust, constitute that it [subliminal perception] was particularly good at instilling negative thoughts. There has been much speculation about whether people can process emotional data unconsciously, for instance pictures, faces and words," said Professor Nilli Lavie, who led the research. We accept shown that people can perceive the emotional value of subliminal messages and have demonstrated conclusively that people are much more attuned to negative words."
– Source

A famous example of subliminal messaging in political communications is in George Bush-league's advertisement confronting Al Gore in 2000. Right subsequently the name of Gore is mentioned, the ending of the word "bureaucrats" – "rats" – flashes on the screen for a split 2nd.

The discovery of this trickery caused quite a stir and, even if there are no laws against subliminal messaging in the U.Due south., the advertizing was taken off the air.

Equally seen in many articles on The Vigilant Citizen, subliminal and semi-subliminal letters are often used in movies and music videos to communicate letters and ideas to the viewers.

Desensitization

In the past, when changes were imposed on populations, they would take to the streets, protest and even riot. The main reason for this disharmonism was due to the fact that the alter was clearly announced by the rulers and understood by the population. It was sudden and its effects could clearly exist analyzed and evaluated. Today, when the aristocracy needs a function of its agenda to be accepted by the public, it is done through desensitization. The agenda, which might go against the public all-time interests,  is slowly, gradually and repetitively introduced to the world through movies (by involving it inside the plot), music videos (who make information technology cool and sexy) or the news (who nowadays it equally a solution to today'southward issues). After several years of exposing the masses to a item agenda, the elite openly presents the concept the world and, due to mental programming, it is greeted with general indifference and is passively accepted. This technique originates from psychotherapy.

"The techniques of psychotherapy, widely practiced and accepted every bit a ways of curing psychological disorders, are also methods of controlling people. They tin be used systematically to influence attitudes and behavior. Systematic desensitization is a method used to dissolve anxiety so the patient (public) is no longer troubled by a specific fear, a fearfulness of violence for case. […] People adapt to frightening situations if they are exposed to them plenty".
– Steven Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

Predictive programming is oft found in the science fiction genre. It presents a specific image of the future – the one that is desired past the elite – and ultimately becomes in the minds of men an inevitability. A decade ago, the public was existence desensitized to war against the Arab world. Today, the population is gradually being exposed to the existence of mind control, of transhumanism and of an Illuminati elite. Emerging from the shadows, those concepts are at present everywhere in popular civilisation. This is what Alice Bailey describes as the "externalization of the hierarchy": the subconscious rulers slowly revealing themselves.

Occult Symbolism in Pop Civilization

Metropolis – a movie by the elite, for the elite?

Contrarily to the data presented above, documentation on occult symbolism is rather hard to notice. This should not come as a surprise as the term "occult", literally ways "hidden". It likewise means "reserved to those in the know" as information technology is merely communicated to those who are deemed worthy of the knowledge. It is not taught in schools nor is it discussed in the media. It is thus considered marginal or even ridiculous past the full general population.

Occult knowledge is NOT, even so, considered ridiculous in occult circles. It is considered timeless and sacred. In that location is a long tradition of hermetic and occult knowledge beingness taught through secret societies originating from aboriginal Egyptians to Eastern Mystics, to the Knights Templar to modern day Freemasons. Even if the depth of this noesis was most probably lost throughout the centuries, mystery schools kept their main features, which are highly symbolic, ritualistic and metaphysical. Those characteristics, which were an intricate part of aboriginal civilizations, have totally been evacuated from modern society to exist replaced by businesslike materialism. For this reason, there lies an important gap of understanding between the pragmatic average person and the ritualistic institution.

"If this inner doctrine were always concealed from the masses, for whom a simpler lawmaking had been devised, is it not highly probable that the exponents of every aspect of modernistic civilization – philosophic, ethical, religious, and scientific-are ignorant of the true meaning of the very theories and tenets on which their behavior are founded? Practise the arts and sciences that the race has inherited from older nations muffle beneath their fair exterior a mystery so dandy that only the most illumined intellect can grasp its import? Such is undoubtedly the case."
– Manly P. Hall, Hush-hush Teachings of All Ages

The "simpler lawmaking" devised for the masses used to be organized religions. It is now condign the Temple of the Mass Media and information technology preaches on a daily footing extreme materialism, spiritual vacuosity and a self-centered, individualistic existence. This is exactly the opposite of the attributes required to go a truly free individual, equally taught by all keen philosophical schools of thought. Is a dumbed-down population easier to deceive and to manipulate?

"These bullheaded slaves are told they are "free" and "highly educated" even every bit they march behind signs that would cause any medieval peasant to run screaming abroad from them in panic-stricken terror. The symbols that modern human embraces with the naive trust of an infant would exist tantamount to billboards reading, 'This way to your death and enslavement,' to the understanding of the traditional peasant of antiquity"
– Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

In Conclusion

This article examined the major thinkers in the field of mass media, the media power structure and the techniques used to manipulate the masses. I believe this information is vital to the understanding of the "why" in the topics discussed on The Vigilant Citizen.  The  "mass population" versus "ruling class" dichotomy described in many articles is not a "conspiracy theory" (again, I hate that term), but a reality that has been clearly stated in the works of some of the 20th century's well-nigh influential men.

Lippmann, Bernays, and Lasswell take all declared that the public is not fit to make up one's mind their own fate, which is the inherent goal of commonwealth. Instead, they called for a cryptocracy, a subconscious regime, a ruling class in charge of the "bewildered herd." As their ideas continue to be applied to social club, it is increasingly apparent that an ignorant population is non an obstacle that the rulers must bargain with: It is something that is DESIRABLE and, indeed, necessary, to ensure full leadership. An ignorant population does not know its rights, does not seek a greater understanding of problems and does non question authorities. It simply follows trends. Popular civilisation caters to and nurtures ignorance by continually serving up encephalon-numbing amusement and spotlighting degenerate celebrities to be idolized.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."
– Thomas Jefferson

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