Should I know him? Who is this gentleman with such a noble appearance?;
This man is in your mind, in your soul, in your actions, in your behavior—and worst of all, YOU’RE the one paying him!
Well, this gentleman’s name is Stanley Greenberg, and he is the communications strategist for New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He is one of the world’s most famous communications experts, pollsters, and strategic advisors. He is known as the «election wizard»; Bill Clinton in the U.S., Tony Blair in England, and even Nelson Mandela in South Africa have sought his services to win elections.
Greenberg was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandparents were Russian immigrants of Jewish descent who had come to the U.S. from Russia. His mother grew up in Ukraine. His maternal grandfather was also Jewish. He identifies as Jewish and regularly attends synagogue services!
He studied political science at the University of Miami and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard.
Greenberg is one of the scientists who developed cybernetics and social systems theory.
He is not, however, merely a communications expert, but rather a mediator between the values that neoliberalism has established in contemporary society and their political expression in a role model. In Greece, they chose Mitsotakis.
One of the pioneers who studied and applied cybernetics to social systems was Karl Deutsch, a Czech professor of Jewish descent, in the early 1970s. Greenberg was a student of Deutsch’s at Harvard. Deutsch, an ardent follower of Goebbels’ theories, was the first to «model societies»; He experimentally applied to populations mathematical models designed to predict the behavior of non-physical systems as they evolve in response to various stimuli.
What is Government? When dealing with the masses, it means, in a nutshell, how and by what means you will direct those masses where you want them to go! Greenberg takes the statistical data collected by government-affiliated polling firms and interprets it using his own models of governance, as he has.
It then proposes initiatives and actions that will influence the situation in one direction or another.
His main weapon is his use of the mainstream media, though this does not mean he rules out actual weapons—no matter how absurd that may seem!! Even the disappearance of journalists
But how does he manipulate the masses? Let's look at some of the methods he uses to manipulate and steer the masses in the direction he wants.
The first and most fundamental element of social control is to scrutinize the mainstream media. Here’s who is behind the creation of the infamous «Petsa list» detailing the €19,832,133 that was given to the mainstream media.
Second, the method of distraction, which relies on diverting the public’s attention away from important issues, scandals, etc., through a barrage of constant distractions and trivial information. For example, to cover up the massive OPEKEPE scandal, the mainstream media constantly focuses on a story that «sells»—namely, the child-killer Mourtzoukou.
Greenberg and his colleagues correctly analyzed the social data, including TV ratings and the intellectual level of viewers, and found that the Mourtzoukos story was a «hit,» so they ran it at just the right moment!
But the most common tactic is «leveling the playing field.» Simply put, they use the excuse that the opposition did the same thing when they were in power. A recent example is the New Democracy party’s proposal, which—in an attempt to cover up the massive OPEKEPE scandal and appear supposedly honest—calls for an investigative committee dating back to …1998.
Come on, poor thing, they're all the same. The majority of the people are starting to realize this.
Another method is «gradual implementation.» To make various unacceptable measures acceptable, they implement them slowly, little by little, over a long period of time.
Think back to how, in the 1980s and 1990s, drastically new socioeconomic conditions were imposed, «neoliberal reforms»—a non-existent state, privatizations, insecurity, flexibility, mass unemployment, starvation wages, etc. These changes would have caused a political and social earthquake had they been implemented all at once. The most striking example is the sell-off of state-owned assets (DEI, EYDAP, DESFA, Energy, Tolls, etc.), which is taking place slowly and gradually; these developments are buried in the fine print of the media, and the people don’t even notice!!!
The «partial information» method: In other words, we inform the public in a completely piecemeal fashion, without getting to the heart of the matter. Think about it for a moment: the rating agency Standard & Poor’s upgraded our rating by two notches. But how many people know what a “rating agency” is and what criteria it uses for its assessments? And of course, they avoid telling you what practical benefit small and medium-sized businesses will derive from this «upgrade.».
The use of emotions opens the door to accessing the unconscious and implanting ideas, desires, fears, compulsions, or prompting certain behaviors. The primary emotion that can be exploited is fear. A striking example is the main slogan of Mitsotakis’ New Democracy: “Mitsotakis or chaos.” The absence of a cohesive opposition currently creates the conditions for exploiting the people’s fear. The slogan, though flimsy, “works,” as fear overrides any rational thought. Another example is the stoking of fears of war with Turkey in order to push through colossal amounts of military spending without opposition.
A more general method of manipulating the masses is to reinforce feelings of self-blame and individual responsibility. In other words, they make citizens believe that they, too, are to blame for, say, their economic hardship or a pandemic! Finally, let’s recall Pangalos’s statement: «We all ate it up together.».
Of course, Mr. Greenberg pushed it through. The recent law supposedly aimed at preventing fires, which shifts part of the responsibility for fires onto citizens. Either you clear your fields, or I’ll slap you with exorbitant fines. The law sounds reasonable! But if a thoughtful citizen analyzes it, they’ll find that for the most part it’s practically unenforceable (time constraints, costs, permits, etc.). However, in this way, the government is covering up its reluctance to purchase new, modern firefighting equipment and to strengthen the fire department. (This, of course, brings up the issue of wind turbines, with the prime minister himself saying, “We won’t reforest everywhere, because wind turbines have to go somewhere too…” and right now, all of Greece is burning.».
The classic method, of course, is subsidies. They pompously announce that they will help the economically vulnerable by subsidizing certain everyday expenses. That’s how they created the «food baskets,» the «passes,» the «electricity subsidies,» and so on. Unfortunately, most of the people, who give little or no thought to the matter, believe these are benefits and credit them to the prime minister himself. How could they possibly understand that these «aid packages» are actually put into one pocket and then taken out twice as much from the other in the form of inflation and rising prices! But how many people actually know what inflation means, how it’s created, and what its consequences are?;
How many of us truly understand the «divide» between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, which we experienced to the fullest during the COVID-19 pandemic and which was used to control the population most effectively, exactly as neoliberalism intends.
So that's more or less how this gentleman controls our minds.
Psychiatry and Psychology in the Service of Mind Control and Political Manipulation
Fortunately, not everyone! There are also those who think for themselves, those who don’t just swallow whole the propaganda the media feeds them. They must react, they must rise up—no matter which political camp they belong to—just as they rose up in response to the tragic events at Tempi.
Of course, this guy is just doing his job, which is nothing more than whitewashing the Mitsotakis government and bringing it back to us!
In other words, to complete its mission of ensuring the full implementation of neoliberal restructuring measures by a democratically elected government.
