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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951
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Surkov / Surkovian meme inversion
"the church plays a crucial role in legitimizing and blessing a king's rule through coronation ceremonies and religious rituals like anointment. This process, rooted in the concept of the divine right of kings, signifies that the king's authority is derived from God and is not merely a secular power."
"Divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy in Western Christianity up until the Enlightenment. It is also known as the divine-right theory of kingship." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings