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Part One: Edward Bernays: The Founding Father of Lies

Behind the Bastards

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The Toxicity of a Person Can Really Preserve You

Edward Lewis Bernays was born in Vienna, Austria in 1891. His father, Eli and mother Anna Freud Bernays came from a middle class Jewish background. On his mother's side, they were perhaps a little bit above middle class due to a very famous relative,. As in Sigmond Freud, the guy who thinks we all want to fuck our moms. He never died until he finally did. Like he should have died so much earlier because he was a real piece of shit, but he just kept being alive.

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