Rockefeller Foundation
Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010)
Extract:
LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit....
Ben Williams
Central Government (1991)
Central Government is typified by Babylon. Babylonian type World Empires, based upon the concept of Central Government, are liberally strewn throughout the records of world history. Today, the epitome of Central Government is usually thought to be the Communist government of the Soviet Union. But, in all...
Vance Packard
The Hidden Persuaders (1958)
"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising." -- Salon
"Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are...
R. J. De Jaegher & I. C. Kuhn
The Enemy Within - An Eyewitness Account Of The Communist Conquest Of China (1967)
From the Preface
China, that immense country, a continent rather than a country, a sort of human continent, was for centuries regarded as being excluded, as it were, from any evolutionary process. Frozen in a tradition not dissim...
Edward L. Bernays
Propaganda (1928)
Classic text on manipulating the masses from "The Father Of Public Relations", double-nephew of Freud.
From: CHAPTER I ORGANIZING CHAOS
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Thosewho manipulate this un...
