Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud, who also had a vested interest in social and emotional deception. Today, Bernays is recognized as the godfather of propaganda, using Freud's ideas about the psyche to herd humans via "engineered consent" manipulations. In polite company, this is called "public relations." He is hailed as a genius for his marketing manipulations to get the masses to part with their money. He also helped Alcoa offload a dangerous industrial byproduct, fluoride, into our drinking water.
Bernays was a big fan of "free speech" and "democracy" because they afforded the "right of persuasion." In other words, voters deserved to be propagandized to vote this way and that way because only the elite knew what was good for them.
Bernays's deception tools are visible everywhere today, including in the church. Engineered consent fingerprints are all over the "spontaneous" emergence of contemporary Christian music (CCM) at the same time that "Jesus People" were being established within the overall Hippy movement and the general deconstruction of American mores at the time, particularly targeting the family and sexual discipline.
Since CCM did not come out of Sri Lanka, but has a precise genesis in California at a time of revolutionary mass social deception, we should pause to consider why the forces of engineered consent would like it to displace "traditional" worship. Was CCM a response to a new context or was the new context a consequence of CCM?
CCM is absolutely new under the sun! As Christians we should be Bereans with everything, but especially with novel developments affecting orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Just apply the precautionary principle for anything that causes even mild deviation from the norm, especially with an end justifies the means mindset.
Tell me about the churches that apply all 10 of these steps. What does it guarantee?
The end of worship formation by Edward Bernays.
Is that a book? I don't recognize that name.
Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud, who also had a vested interest in social and emotional deception. Today, Bernays is recognized as the godfather of propaganda, using Freud's ideas about the psyche to herd humans via "engineered consent" manipulations. In polite company, this is called "public relations." He is hailed as a genius for his marketing manipulations to get the masses to part with their money. He also helped Alcoa offload a dangerous industrial byproduct, fluoride, into our drinking water.
Bernays was a big fan of "free speech" and "democracy" because they afforded the "right of persuasion." In other words, voters deserved to be propagandized to vote this way and that way because only the elite knew what was good for them.
Bernays's deception tools are visible everywhere today, including in the church. Engineered consent fingerprints are all over the "spontaneous" emergence of contemporary Christian music (CCM) at the same time that "Jesus People" were being established within the overall Hippy movement and the general deconstruction of American mores at the time, particularly targeting the family and sexual discipline.
Since CCM did not come out of Sri Lanka, but has a precise genesis in California at a time of revolutionary mass social deception, we should pause to consider why the forces of engineered consent would like it to displace "traditional" worship. Was CCM a response to a new context or was the new context a consequence of CCM?
Bernays books:
Propaganda
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Edward-L.-Bernays/author/B004MPHV92?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1739647556&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&hoppingPortalEnabled=true
Crystallizing Public Opinion
https://www.amazon.com/Crystallizing-Public-Opinion-Edward-Bernays/dp/107827326X/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=1QL94UJ4655EV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dTrvpnWB3OzudEFiQIagkMy42IdNlbMHC581mFYZJP9acPjj8sslcBg_7ugE3VVB4CiaGIGT3z1DGtpPtFAUbOTT_BQounTxVAEUcDU85B2yXW_z0XxQNaUB8sgBkrPu9jpEsVFon7FSOddxEG-AzSNcK8GPGj8UiUPy3pcIv7YmHUO9oqncZRpNpJw7eBHk0fgE-y4c3wUPqjgt-QBeidRpJqlYSZ8aKfPaUY8962I.pMYHSWcSJXqbIYpR1ITfFPixEWz8qo5bpSxderUVk7U&dib_tag=se&keywords=edward+bernays&qid=1739647583&sprefix=edward+bernays%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-2-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1
Engineered Consent
http://www.fraw.org.uk/data/politics/bernays_1947.pdf
Thanks for that background, I was looking for books under that name, but wasn't finding one called "The End of Worship Formation."
Do you think these concepts are an extension of orators using rhetoric as they have for millennia? That is, nothing new under the sun.
CCM is absolutely new under the sun! As Christians we should be Bereans with everything, but especially with novel developments affecting orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Just apply the precautionary principle for anything that causes even mild deviation from the norm, especially with an end justifies the means mindset.