Sublime

In his 1928 book Propaganda, American social theorist and “father of public relations” Edward Bernays dubbed the people with the power to shape public opinion “invisible rulers.”

In the post-war period, much of the non-communist world was opened up to US domination by tactics of this sort. This became the method of choice to fight off the threat of communist insurgencies and revolution, entailing an anti-democratic (and even more emphatically anti-populist and anti-socialist/communist) strategy on the part of the US that pu