Books on group manipulation through media/symbols?

>>9658123
Man and His Symbols argues that this will fall flat on it's face and that symbols must resonate from within to actually hold sway. Otherwise the unconsious will be against them.

Sorel's Reflections on Violence too desu.

>>9658139
This. Manipulation is a parasite on psychological substructures. You can only go that far with simulacrums.

>>9658123
Canetti's Crowds and Power; Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism. maybe of interest

Jacques Ellul

>>9658123
Not literature but try your best to learn about modern marketing. Look at the presentations by Cambridge Analytica on their work with the Cruz campaign.

baudrillard

>>9659065
you mean Baudelaire desu

http://www.poesie-francaise.fr/charles-baudelaire/poeme-les-foules.php

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bernays did more harm to our society than anyone else post-war

>>9658207
>>9658139

I disagree. Brainlets are real, not all are born equal, some have weaker spirit

>>9659107
this is actually really interesting, the similarities there. cheers anon. transmigration of souls or just based gallic disaffection ftw

>>9659115
glad to hear it, I was just joking as there was some confusion between the two over on another thread the other day.

but the image of the crowd reminded me of solitude of the poet in the midst of the crowd of that poem, an image and a phrase that has stayed in my mind for years.

>>9658139
>>9658207
Does Jung consider the collective unconscious immutable or something that can be shifted/changed?