Mind Control and Propaganda: A Sofa King Classic

Sofa King Podcast

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Mind Control, influence, and propaganda are the focus of this episode of the Sofa King Podcast. We talk about how governments and corporations try to make us loyal to their product/country using techniques that date back well before World War II. Derren Brown, the British mentalist and psychological manipulator is a prime example that we talk about. And of course, what Sofa King episode would be complete without a conspiracy? This episode’s is the CIA program from the 1950s-1970s known as MK Ultra. What was MK Ultra, and how did the maniuplate us? Tune in and find out. Some of our key topics this episode are mind control, propaganda, advertising, MK Ultra, the CIA, Derren Brown, mentalism, the propaganda/public relations master Edward Bernays, and the documentary film maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and her work documenting the Taliban.

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0:00.0	This is damn it, it's keepin' standing with mine
0:03.2	That you're a person, my control now
0:06.1	No, no, no, no, no
0:08.0	You don't even like it, it's callin' your name
0:12.0	This is damn it, it's, and it don't come insane
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7:15.0	the government releases a meme that is then being spread, I would argue that could be a form of property, but it has to be government, yes, and I think that we actually as in the consumer or the person on the internet, you know, just some guy thought something was funny made a meme and the government attached themselves to it because it was already out there, people are already doing it, so any information that you want to get out to the user,
7:45.0	you just circulate it, right, I throw out a meme, it's a funny meme, it's going to go everywhere, I guess it doesn't want the intent behind it, yeah, so what's the intent behind it, I think that it can be used as a form of propaganda, I mean every, I mean if you look at the history of propaganda, it's always, I mean it goes all the way back to fucking ancient Greece, they had propaganda for wars, but I mean at the time they had very little technology, they had cryors on the streets, or you know,
8:15.0	even in the, you know, in the Civil War there was propaganda, but it wasn't much, but in World War II it really ramps up, and you see tons of posters because printing in color suddenly was a lot cheaper, you see radio broadcast propaganda really ramps up as technology ramps up, and now with memes, with Facebook, with Twitter, with all this stuff, it's just another technological way to spread propaganda, but I think again I think I think the key to propaganda is that it's hosted by a government, and the government's intention is to
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