The political industry perpetually cheats its public of what it constantly promises

“Mr President, there is a phrase saying, “His bark is worse than his bite", I believe that in this case, the government – taking your permission – barks enough but doesn’t bite at all.” (Sroiter, 2010)

Since history seems to repeat itself, I’d like to give you a little insight on how we all are brainwashed and controlled/manipulated by the politicians.

Is this quote based on the expression of views? Formed perceptions?

We can understand that the journalist is phrasing the question into a rhetorical STATEMENT, representing the citizen. He is trying to state that the political government makes promises for a better living/society and never accomplishes to undertake these agreements.

What interested me about politics and reputation management, were the public perceptions, nature of history and its usefulness, exposes, criticisms, perspectives, indications, investigations, debates, forensics, beliefs, freedom of Press and their made-up stories which have been impacted by the authorities and their deceptions. (Referencing the United States).

My dissertation piece covers all that one should know or is interested to know about politicians and their hidden agendas.

We should be asking ourselves these rhetorical questions:

Are the Politicians deceiving? Or are they hiding content from the society?

Are we all a tool of Manipulation? Are we their Puppets?

Does Freedom of Press in The United States Include Just Making Up Stories? Or does the authority manage the Media?

Is Religion a Myth? Is Christianity a ‘Blind Submission’ to authority?

Ideally, I researched and looked into the 20^th Century, ‘the Century of the Self, controlling the masses and manipulating the unconscious’, where the politicians first used the techniques of public relations (discovered by Edward L. Bernays, Freud’s nephew), to control the masses. In other terminology, ‘A Century of Spin’, “how Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power”. (David Miller and William Dinan, 2008). While digging into the core of the thesis, I discovered that Sigmund Freud’s work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. And then Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses.

Then, I took the research further, by looking in depth on exposés, tabloids, broadsheets and national stories which turned out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. Following, I studied the author of ‘Flat Earth News’, Nick Davies, including him as part of my reference. In his book, he shows the impact of situations on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat- from the millennium bug to the WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction) in Iraq- tainting government policy, perverting popular belief. Then continuing with the search of ‘the Real rulers/politicians of the World’ and the impact of Religion.

Referenced the Zeitgeist movie and literature publications, which argue and state that Christianity is not based on true and that Christianity, in fact was nothing more than a Roman story developed politically.

“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.” (Robert G. Ingersoll, 1833-1899). The Zeitgeist documentary argues that Christianity along with all other theistic belief systems, is the fraud of the age. It served to detach the species for the natural world and likewise each other. It supports blind submission to authority. It reduces human responsibility to the effect that God controls everything. In return awful crimes can be justified on the name of the divine pursuit. And most importantly, it empowers those who know the truth but use the myth to manipulate and Control societies. The religious myth is the most powerful device ever created and serves as the psychological soil upon which other myths could flourish.

Moreover, the documentary debates on how the World Trade Center was destroyed by the US Government, using planes and controlled demolition explosives planted before hand. And in addition, it explores how the world’s central banks are a scam / fraud perpetuated by bankers to enrich themselves.

Coming back to how religion had an enormous impact on politics and how those in power in post- war America used Freud’s ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses. Hence, politicians and planners came to believe and were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts of (that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires and fears), had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany.

I analyzed Politics in fiction and film, especially the ones with the themes of Manipulation, terror, dystopia, public perception and totalitarianism. (eg. Metropolis, Animal Farm, The Dawn of the Dead, Lord of the Flies, Children of Men, Dreamers, etc.)