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The Pete Quiñones Show

Episode 835: Reading Edward L. Bernays 'The Engineering of Consent' w/ Buck Johnson

The Pete Quiñones Show

Peter R Quiñones

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.8951 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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86 Minutes PG-13 Buck Johnson is the host of the Counterflow Podcast Buck joined Pete to read and comment on the 1947 Edward L. Bernays essay, "The Engineering of Consent" Today's Sponsor- Crowdhealth - Promo Code: peteq Counterflow Podcast Get Autonomy 19 Skills PDF Download The Monopoly On Violence Support Pete on His Website Pete's Patreon Pete's Substack Pete's Subscribestar GabPay - @petequinones Pete's Venmo Pete on Facebook Pete on Twitter

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0:00.0

Oh, I'm going to go and I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekiniano show returning for another reading.

0:33.0

Buck Johnson.

0:34.0

How you doing Buck?

0:35.0

Good, I'm glad to be back for another reading.

0:38.0

I enjoy your series of readings in general, so I'm happy to be part of this.

0:42.0

Considering I'm reading to be part of this.

0:43.0

Considering I'm reading a book now that we're just, I just recorded part 8 with dark

0:48.5

Enlightenment on race war in high school.

0:51.3

I figure something that can be read in one sitting can you

0:55.1

know a nice break and this is one of those things that this is one of those

1:00.6

essays that like everyone knows a lot of people have read Bernays some people have read propaganda which came 1920

1:06.6

1922 crystallizing public opinion a couple years later, but this is 1947 and where it's after the war that's very important to this and it's also the advent of

1:27.5

TV's are starting to pop up in people's houses and you know more people are getting them so

1:34.8

How do we handle this going forward? When you read it would you? I I know you, you text me, you're like, holy crap.

1:40.4

Yeah, and because it's like, wow, look at this. This guy has all the brain child. It's like the brain child behind how to run PSI-ops is what this sounds like to me and it's like you it hits you

1:47.1

My goodness this is he's discovering the the the power of the medium which was television at the time which you know was a big thing but now it's like we are so far past that like but this seems like a text an essential reading text for anyone who runs PSYOPs, anyone who's in the quote-unquote elite or whatever you want to call the people, the oligarchs and whatnot that control.

2:11.0

It's so obvious, reading this how a public opinion is shifted and you know of course

2:16.8

unfortunately we can use the last several years as as part of seeing that or up until the war the wars overseas you know

2:24.4

reading this it was almost depressing like God he's it I was right I didn't want to

2:30.6

be right but this guy's explaining how it's done.

2:33.6

Well, it reminds me of how you'll mention something like this and people will be like, well,

2:40.0

you know, it's just a conspiracy theory, but it's like okay well no one has no one who's using it is

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