This Is An Age Of

We Are Governed, Our Minds Are Molded, Our Tastes Formed, Our Ideas Suggested, Largely By Men We Have Never Heard Of. This Is A Logical Result Of The Way In Which Our Democratic Society Is Organized. Vast Numbers Of Human Beings Must Cooperate In This Manner If They Are To Live Together As A Smoothly Functioning Society.

If You Can Influence The Leaders, Either With Or Without Their Conscious Cooperation, You Automatically Influence The Group Which They Sway.

Mass Production Is Only Profitable If Its Rhythm Can Be Maintained.. That Is, If It Can Continue To Sell Its Product In Steady Or Increasing Quantity. The Result Is That While, Under The Handicraft Or Small-unit System Of Production That Was Typical A Century Ago, Demand Created The Supply, Today Supply Must Actively Seek To Create Its Corresponding Demand.

People Want To Go Where They Wanted To Be Led.

No Serious Sociologist Any Longer Believes That The Voice Of The People Expresses Any Divine Or Specially Wise And Lofty Idea. The Voice Of The People Expresses The Mind Of The People, And That Mind Is Made Up For It By The Group Leaders In Whom It Believes And By Those Persons Who Understand The Manipulation Of Public Opinion. It Is Composed Of Inherited Prejudices And Symbols And Clichés And Verbal Formulas Supplied To Them By The Leaders.