It has been 100 years since Edward Bernays was asked to help the American war effort by applying his uncle Sigmund Freud’s studies to a new German military tactic known as propaganda. As noted by Jordan Greenhall in an interesting essay titled “The War On Sensemaking”, the science behind these psychological manipulations could be expected to develop just as rapidly as other sciences within the US war machine. Think about how much development has been made in just the military technologies that we know about in the last 100 years, and it should give you a rough idea of how far the manipulation techniques of propaganda could be expected to have advanced by now.