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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

THE ART OF MANUFACTURING FEAR

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The fear and panic produced by The War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 paved the way for media and government predictive programming of an imminent cyberattack. The HighWire takes a deep dive through this historical timeline.

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0:00.0

Let's move back from the whole picture here and talk about really one of the

0:04.7

overarching themes of how the messaging worked and how messaging works in

0:09.5

general and propaganda. We'll start the conversation here with H.G. Wells. He was a prominent

0:15.8

author of his time. He wrote a lot of books and he had an inside track just

0:19.8

looking at some of the books he wrote. One of them was the idea of the League of Nations. Now the League of Nations

0:25.5

were the predecessor to the United Nations and he wrote this book in 1919. So the League of Nations was just getting up and running and

0:32.0

he's writing this book, this article of was just kind of the nuts and bolts of how this thing's going to get moving.

0:37.6

Okay, well, maybe he was just making commentary at the time of that, but then he writes a book in the 40s,

0:42.3

literally called The new world order.

0:43.7

This was a in here non fiction he proposed a framework for a socialist government, a

0:49.4

scientifically planned world government that would be formed to guide the planet towards peace.

0:55.3

So it's interesting how that piece works in, but to give an idea who H.U. Wells was and his kind of his lineage. We have to start with Thomas Malthus and we've covered

1:06.2

this in the show. Malthus, he has, he brought forward the Malthusian ideology of overpopulation, family

1:12.0

planning, we have to get the world population down.

1:14.9

This is a lot where Bill Gates kind of picked up the ball for the Billing

1:18.8

Melinda Gates Foundation.

1:19.9

We talked about it in the earlier show why he chose back.

1:22.8

The father of eugenics really this idea of you know that we need to reduce population.

1:27.8

We have to we have to you know take care of ourselves. You got to prune our own society. Right, right and the earth has a

1:35.5

caring capacity and God forbid we get past that. Now he his idea is

1:39.6

influenced later down the road Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists, survival of the fittest, and

1:46.1

the eugenics was rooted in social Darwinism. So that just carried right into eugenics at that point.

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