Social Engineering and the 21st Century Truth Emergency. On March 9, 1995, Edward Bernays died at the age of 103. His professional endeavors involved seeking to change popular attitudes and behavior, by fundamentally altering social reality. Since he laid the modern groundwork for deceiving
the public, we are for better or worse, living out his legacy today. Several years ago, Project Censored directors Peter Phillips, and Mickey Huff, identified and explained the truth emergency that is among the greatest threats to civil society and human existence. This crisis is manifest in flawed or non existent investigations into 9/11, and other potential false flag events, fraudulent elections, and illegal wars, vis a vis a corporate controlled news media, that fail to adequately inform the public on such matters. While neglecting or obscuring inquiry into such events, and phenomena, major media disparage independent, and often uncredentialed researchers as conspiracy theorists or, more reavealingly, truthers. The truth emergency continues today, ans social engineers like Bernays, long understood the significance of undermining the use of reason, for it is only through reason, that truth may be determined and evaluated. To be sure, individuals and institutions, that have successfully achieved legitimacy in the public mind, are recognized as having a monopoly on the capacity to reason, and are thus perceived as the foremost bearers of truth and knowledge. Through the endorsement of experts, figures perceived as authoritative in their field, the public could easily be persuaded on anything from tobacco use, and water flouridation, to military intervention abroad. Today, reason is defined one dimensionally. Its relationship to truth is largely taken for granted. Yet as Leibniz observed, reason marks our humanity, suggesting a portion of the soul capable of a priori recognition of truth. With this in mind, the modern individual in the mass, has been rendered at least partially soulless through her every day deferral to the powerful persuasive notion, and representation of expertise. However narrowly focused, under the guise of objectivity, the institutionally affiliated journalist, academic, bureaucrat, and corporate spokesperson have become the portals of reason, through which the public is summoned to observe truth. These agents of reason are largely bereft of emotion, moderate in temperament, and speak or write in an unsurprisingly formulaic tone. The narratives they relate and play out, present tragedy, with the expectation of certain closure.
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