Propaganda

Seminal Work

Seminal work on the topic, by the same title, was written by Edward Bernays in 1928, and should be required reading for any architect of the next civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Quotes

"The true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

-Political Scientist Leonard Schapiro, on Stalin.