The Power of FOMO in the First World War

"It's one kind of dumb to be a European in 1914 and think like, oh, this war is going to be awesome. We got to get into it," he says. "Like everybody wants a little bit. It's going to be over real quick." Bernays was an integral part of winning the American people over to World War I. He believes that U.S. involvement set off a chain of events that made Nazi Germany inevitable.