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There has been a lot of unbeknownst social programming of people via advertising since the early 1900's. This did not occur via ~~any~~ grand conspiracy ~~or malevolent Rothschild~~, but simply by people whose job it was to sell more stuff. The marketing industry really kicked off in the 1920's as the psychological science of selling developed and marketing personnel started discovering they could hack human psychology and take advantage of [[Heuristics|ancient constructs in our minds]] in order to sell us more and more goods. One great example of this is in Edward Bernay's (a relative of Sigmund Freud) book "''Propaganda''" which details how he used his uncle's ideas (Sigmund Freud) to expand cigarette sales in the US by 50% by linking the needs of women at the time for equal rights, to the Statue of Liberty holding a [[Torches of Freedom|Torch of Freedom]] to women not being smokers.

There has been a lot of unbeknownst social programming of people via [[advertising]] since the early 1900's. This did not occur via a grand conspiracy, but simply by people whose job it was to sell more stuff. The marketing industry really kicked off in the 1920's as the psychological science of selling developed and marketing personnel started discovering they could hack human psychology and take advantage of [[Heuristics|ancient constructs in our minds]] in order to sell us more and more goods. One great example of this is in Edward Bernay's (a relative of Sigmund Freud) book "''Propaganda''" which details how he used his uncle's ideas (Sigmund Freud) to expand cigarette sales in the US by 50% by linking the needs of women at the time for equal rights, to the Statue of Liberty holding a [[Torches of Freedom|Torch of Freedom]] to women not being smokers.

This used to be fine as people back then believed that the planet was effectively infinite, however, in the late 60's, which coincides with the heights of [[Psychedelics|psychedelic]] usage, environmentalism was established. This saw scientists, who had access to new data about the status of the planet, realised in fact, we do not live on an infinite planet and we are [[Ecological crisis|using up 170 percent of what we can regenerate annually]]. <hr/>

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-There has been a lot of unbeknownst social programming of people via advertising since the early 1900's. This did not occur via any grand conspiracy or malevolent Rothschild, but simply by people whose job it was to sell more stuff. The marketing industry really kicked off in the 1920's as the psychological science of selling developed and marketing personnel started discovering they could hack human psychology and take advantage of [[Heuristics|ancient constructs in our minds]] in order to sell us more and more goods. One great example of this is in Edward Bernay's (a relative of Sigmund Freud) book "''Propaganda''" which details how he used his uncle's ideas (Sigmund Freud) to expand cigarette sales in the US by 50% by linking the needs of women at the time for equal rights, to the Statue of Liberty holding a [[Torches of Freedom|Torch of Freedom]] to women not being smokers.
+There has been a lot of unbeknownst social programming of people via [[advertising]] since the early 1900's. This did not occur via a grand conspiracy, but simply by people whose job it was to sell more stuff. The marketing industry really kicked off in the 1920's as the psychological science of selling developed and marketing personnel started discovering they could hack human psychology and take advantage of [[Heuristics|ancient constructs in our minds]] in order to sell us more and more goods. One great example of this is in Edward Bernay's (a relative of Sigmund Freud) book "''Propaganda''" which details how he used his uncle's ideas (Sigmund Freud) to expand cigarette sales in the US by 50% by linking the needs of women at the time for equal rights, to the Statue of Liberty holding a [[Torches of Freedom|Torch of Freedom]] to women not being smokers.
 This used to be fine as people back then believed that the planet was effectively infinite, however, in the late 60's, which coincides with the heights of [[Psychedelics|psychedelic]] usage, environmentalism was established. This saw scientists, who had access to new data about the status of the planet, realised in fact, we do not live on an infinite planet and we are [[Ecological crisis|using up 170 percent of what we can regenerate annually]]. <hr/>

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