Is democracy impossible?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In Stuff They Don't Want You To Know's inaugural podcast, Ben and Matt explored the strange career of Edward Bernays, the then-obscure Father of Public Relations responsible for selling the American public on everything from bacon as breakfast to corporate-driven wars in South and Central America. All for some greater good packaged as 'democracy'. Today, many institutions, governments and organizations remain publicly convinced that some form of democracy is the superior -- or simply the least worst -- way to run these large groups of people we call countries. However, not everyone agrees. Join the guys as they delve into the story of Walter Lippmann, the Bernays-esque figure responsible for pushing the argument against democracy (and toward governance by an elite cabal) into the public sphere.

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0:00.0	The cheerleaders at a gym in Buffalo have been recording themselves.
0:04.3	A cell.
0:05.5	To make a new documentary.
0:07.0	We're the so hot news reporters.
0:09.1	Because one year ago, a mass shooting changed their lives.
0:13.1	You just walked around and shot all the black people.
0:15.2	The cheer squad, most of whom are black,
0:17.7	had to figure out how to go on and how to compete.
0:21.0	I wanted to win for them more than anything this season.
0:23.9	Listen to the embedded podcast from NPR within the I Heart Radio app
0:28.7	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast
0:33.6	to hear a shocking story of deception.
0:36.2	I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing
0:38.4	an all-new story of betrayal.
0:41.3	Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business
0:43.8	fanmail account when she discovered a terrible secret.
0:46.5	I saw a hidden folder, and I opened it.
0:50.2	What the hell did I just see?
0:54.4	Listen to season two of betrayal on the I Heart Radio app,
0:57.3	Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.5	Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist.
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