spky

“ Denn die Aussage "Wir sind die Urheber" grenzt ab und lässt ein arrogantes "und ihr nicht!" mitschwingen. Doch Arroganz, Inkonsequenz und Angst sind schlechte Ratgeber, wenn es darum geht, das Urheberrecht zu stärken, ohne die Wirklichkeit aus den Augen zu verlieren. ”

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By stimulating people’s inner desires and then sating them with consumer products, Bernays argued, he was creating a new way to manage the irrational force of the masses. This way the masses remained docile, while the economy remained stimulated. Bernays called this marketing strategy,“The engineering of consent.”

If that term doesn’t give you the willies, the following quote by leading wall street banker, Paul Maizer, ought to do it:

“We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America. Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.”

These words were spoken the better half of a century ago in the 1930′s, and it appears the manifesto has become prophesy....

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