Page 64 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

Rather than rationally considering the potential of NASA sending men to the Moon, the American
public responded emotionally to the reports and images they were being presented with. An immense
pride swelled in the breast of the American citizenry. This pride served as a bulwark against any
challenge to the authenticity of the lunar missions.

In conjunction with this emotional appeal to human pride, the propagandists further played upon
another known tendency of mankind. This was the habit of believing people who are honored as
leaders. Bernays states the following.

If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you
automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered
together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology.
Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone
in his room with the curtains drawn. His mind retains the patterns which have been stamped on it
by the group influences.
[Ibid]

Man is gregarious. That is to say, he is a social creature and tends to function in a herd-like manner.
Men are readily influenced by those whom they are conditioned by their society to honor. This is
why back in the 1950s and earlier, cigarette manufacturers employed doctors and other medical
professionals in their sales ads to promote the safe, even beneficent qualities of smoking. It is widely
understood now that all such claims were lies. Nevertheless, this propaganda was highly effective.
It removed one of the greatest barriers standing in the way of the decision to smoke. When doctor’s
were pictured in glossy magazine ads, on billboards, and television declaring smoking to be safe,
people believed them.

What are doctors being used to promote today? Vaccines. Flu shots. Ritalin. Mind altering drugs.
The safety of GMO foods. The herd instinct is still in force today. Honor is given where it is
frequently undeserved.

If tasked to create a propaganda campaign of the scale of the Apollo Moon landings, it would be
necessary to use every ploy possible. Men of renown from all spheres of life should be called upon
to lend their influential voice to the campaign. Political leaders were naturally selected, but why not
also include religious leaders?