Marc Bernays Randolph, the co-founder of Netflix is the great-grandnephew of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and great-nephew of the inventor of propaganda and public relations Edward Bernays. So, here's why you need to stop watching Netflix

Known as the Father of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud theorised that people that have memories of childhood abuse were imagining it, that it was just a case of made-up fantasies. He called it 'infantile sexuality'. This is what he said this meant...

According to Freud, his infantile sexuality theory posited that child sexual abuse was not caused by adults preying on children, but was rather the child itself lusting over his/her parents and seeking bodily/sexual pleasure thereof

You know how a baby sucks on things? Whether it is its own hands, fingers, feet or when breastfeeding? Freud called this the "oral" stage of child development". When the child poops? He said it was the "anal" stage of development. It goes on...

Freud says the child then develops an interest in its sexual organs as a site of pleasure. He calls it the "phallic" stage. Apparently, the child develops a deep sexual attraction for the parent of the opposite sex, and hatred of the parent of the same sex ("Oedipus complex")

Freud’s grandson, Clement Freud molested a few girls between the 1940s and 70s. When one of his victims asked him why he had molested her, he is said to have replied: "Because I loved you. You were a very sensual little girl."

Sigmund Freud's sister Anna, who was regularly molested and abused by their father, gave birth to, Edward Bernays, the aforementioned father of propaganda. In the 1920s, Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to manipulate women into taking up smoking cigarettes

At this point in history, women who smoked were considered social outcasts. Smoking was reserved only for "fallen women", 'whores' and 'prostitutes'. Only shady, devious, classless and 'characterless' women were shown to be smoking on screen

Bernays went out to devise the first PR campaign in history. He called it Torches of Freedom. Every detail was thought out perfectly. The women hired in the ads had to be appealing enough to influence the masses, but not too hot lest it gives truth to the seductress stereotypes…

Bernays proclaimed that smoking was a form of liberation for women, their chance to express their strength and freedom. So he taught a woman how to smoke and then put her on the street with a cigarette. Within minutes, 10 women followed her lighting up their Torches of Freedom

In the following days, Bernays spoke of "sexual liberation as a form of control", concocted a link between cigarettes, weight loss, glamour, sexual freedom and the women's liberation movement. This was at a time women weren't even allowed to vote. He gave them this hollow victory

To this day, Freud and Bernays' legacies of social engineering, manipulation and exploitation of human mental weaknesses are still being felt throughout society, used to feed the basest human desires and turning us into senseless consumers...

If you ever thought to yourself "I can't help myself, I like nice things", you have Edward Bernays to thank for that. Here he is, the Godfather of Propaganda and Brainwashing in his own words:

"While the intentions behind this radical change might certainly be murky, there is no doubt that the Torches of Freedom became a landmark trendsetter in the world of advertising and public relations and is influencing the rules of the game even today"

Back to Netflix. There's no question that it has replaced network television as the homebase of urban popular culture, normalising uncontrolled acts of behaviour such as 'binge-watching', which panders directly to the weak, dopamine-craving part of the human brain...

That Netflix promoted the hyper-sexualisation of children on Cuties was not an anomaly. This sort of lewdness has been generations in the Freud-Bernays bloodline. Netflix's cruel brainwashing of the masses is the sort of thing Edward Bernays would have been proud of

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