The Goebbels-Bernays Dream Machine
26 min readNov 13, 2021
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice, but what if the information is arranged, spiked and doped? What if we had been fed with loaded misinformation to be led, lured and misdirected, such that we cannot unthink what we had been made to think — for years? You won’t know what is a better choice when the ‘best’ is made as its only crafted and designed availability.
Edward Bernays and Joseph Goebbels would revel in the information infrastructure and tools we have today., especially when the methods and machines have advanced in great leaps, but people are still haplessly manipulatable to the same.
I do not worry that they take away our rights, but I fear that they might have taken us of our ability to think and our will to act. - 2011-07.08To hack a human being is to get to know that person better than they know themselves. And based on that, to increasingly manipulate you. This outside system, it has the potential to remember everything. Everything you ever did. And to analyze and find patterns in this data and to get a much better idea of who you really are. — Yuval Noah HarariA half-truth is a whole lie. - Jewish ProverbIt's difficult to convince people of a distasteful truth, especially when they are buried within layers of well-protected and cherished lies. - 2011-02.02