Monstrous stuff, no wonder where we are now. Thank you so so much for writing this summary. I was trying to do it, too - but I could not find enough time. Great work. You said that the current "democracy" is "individual desires for the benefit of the self" - but it is in fact manipulating individual desires for the benefit of the unelected elite, as Bernays envisioned it and as we clearly see in Cass Sunstein's books. "Navigability" and "Nudge". Based on the narrative of "collective" and "benefit for society" but in truth benefitting only those who manipulate and "nudge" us. Bernays was a fervent Zionist, by the way, his second allegiance after money and before the third allegiance to obsession with power and human hierarchy. Zionism is of course not "Jewish" at all and is just another variety of supremacism and settler-colonialism. that is lasting way too long. I am saying it as a Jewish person and a former Israeli. Bernays' adherence to Zionist ideology is directly connected with his view on humans a Uber- and Untermenschen, a society where the elites manipulate, control, shape and mold the masses for the elites' desired use.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/06/25/jews-in-advertising-and-public-relations/