Accomplishment

"Here was an extraordinary state accomplishment: mass enthusiasm at the prospect of a global brawl that otherwise would mystify those very masses, and that shattered most of those who actually took part in it. The Anglo-American drive to demonize 'the Hun,' and to cast the war as a transcendent clash between Atlantic 'civilization' and Prussian 'barbarism,' made so powerful an impression on so many that the worlds of government and business were forever changed.”
-Edward L. Bernays,
“Propaganda”