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(12,712 posts)Beck takes the cake when it comes to throwing significant investigation into any deliberate and concerted efforts by organizations and groups into a bag of crazy in order to obscure, diffuse and distract and marginalize any bona fide discussion in the mainstream on those topics.
Limbough has some good company with Jones and Beck, et al. In fact they have a base that might be easily absorbed into other agendas over time. Meanwhile, many people are becoming prone to relegating what is not official, mainstream or Status Quo to the whacky bag of popular, wacky-bag, egotistical authoritarians, (who become quite wealthy at their craft).
It works so well that both Orwell and Huxley, if they were alive today, could write some interesting sequels to their seminal books on the subject.
Manufacturing the consent of millions of people and influencing their thinking, choices and opinions is a massive effort and a even a science these days. Edward Bernays was so good at kick-staring that phase of mass manipulation that we may very well be living in his dream.