I’m a little curious as to how you’re getting so many excellent book recommendations. I would also like to suggest two books for you to read. Both of these books are crucial to understanding the psychological aspect of control in modern democracy, a political system whereby the public is, on the surface, choosing its own destiny.

The first is “Propaganda” by Edward Bernays. He was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and the so-called father of modern Public Relations. The second is “Soft Power” by Joseph Nye.

You reference Zbigniew Brzezinski many times. Brzezinski is fond of quoting or referencing Joseph Nye, including writing a blurb on the inside cover of the book I suggested.

Both of these books revolve around the idea that modern democracy is about the appearance of choice, the fiction of choice, yet not really choice in substance. Which is to say that, although it’s really not that simple, power is essentially about controlling behavior. And social planners (like Brzezinski and Bernays and Nye) do, in fact, control society through the manipulation of this supposed choice, essentially by understanding and altering the psychological make-up of modern man, through technology (media, drugs, commercialism), through social planning (Wormser’s book discusses what and from where these projects originate), and through monopolistic control over the political and economic realm.