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It Is Not Necessary For The Politician To Be The Slave Of The Public's Group Prejudices, If He Can Learn How To Mold The Mind Of The Voters In Conformity With His Own Ideas Of Public Welfare And Public Service. The Important Thing For The Statesman Of Our Age Is Not So Much To Know How To Please The Public, But To Know How To Sway The Public. Those Who Manipulate This Unseen Mechanism Of Society Constitute An Invisible Government Which Is The True Ruling Power Of Our Country.

The Engineering Of Consent Is The Very Essence Of The Democratic Process, The Freedom To Persuade And Suggest.

We Have Voluntarily Agreed To Let An Invisible Government Sift The Data And High-spot The Outstanding Issues So That Our Field Of Choice Shall Be Narrowed To Practical Proportions. From Our Leaders And The Media They Use To Reach The Public, We Accept The Evidence And The Demarcation Of Issues Bearing Upon Public Questions; From Some Ethical Teacher, Be It A Minister, A Favorite Essayist, Or Merely Prevailing Opinion, We Accept A Standardized Code Of Social Conduct To Which We Conform Most Of The Time.

The Conscious And Intelligent Manipulation Of The Organised Habits And Opinions Of The Masses Is An Important Element In Democratic Society. Those Who Manipulate This Unseen Mechanism Of Society Constitute An Invisible Government Which Is The True Ruling Power Of Our Country.

This Is An Age Of Mass Production. In The Mass Production Of Materials A Broad Technique Has Been Developed And Applied To Their Distribution. In This Age, Too, There Must Be A Technique For The Mass Distribution Of Ideas.