Events such as momentous political
assassinations, the Tonkin Gulf, Oklahoma City, and
9/11
have suggested that government-corporate manipulation of the public for
broader political ends is not difficult to achieve. Control over an
event and the select use of stimuli elicits certain desired responses.
This is particularly the case in a society that exercises almost
unquestioning allegiance toward what Erich Fromm termed “
anonymous
authority.” The Boston Marathon bombing event suggests the end result
of this blind faith; how such finely tuned stagecraft can mobilize a
mass mentality to the degree that it misinterprets the implementation of
martial law as a genuine representation of a public will.
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