Human Wrongs Watch
By Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service*
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippan argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. .
In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations” (aka propaganda) to carry out this task for the ruling elites.