There is a set of people, margaret mead gregory bateson, who came along and started looking at the psychological communications component. They advised roosevelt on media policy and propaganda policy. And what they had to produce in their own minds was american unity that was not an authoritarian style of unity. Here we are using the tools of propaganda domestically,. which i unifying a kind of psyche that were cultivating, a very specific syceeta, an intentional psyche - one that is in unison, democratic, actually, and plural and different and diverse, yes.
In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.