The Psychology Of Control: The Stanford Social Media Thought Prison Experiment

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The Stanford Prison Experiment

Thank you for joining me, so let’s first provide a little context/background. The Stanford prison experiment was an examination of the psychological effects behind the perception of power. The experiment took place in 1971 and consisted of young men being divided into the roles of prisoner and guard. The prison environment was created in the basement of the psychology department at Stanford University. Volunteers were paid $15.00 per day and asked to participate in a study that related to the psychological effects of prison life. Of the 75 students that applied, 24 were chosen to take part.

The prison environment was designed to be as authentic as possible, with students being arrested without prior warning and then taken to a local police station. Once processed, prisoners were blindfolded and driven to the recently assembled Stanford prison. The prison had bare walls, barred windows/doors and small cells. Each prisoner was stripped, deloused, given prison attire and an I.D number in place of their name. Once all the guards were dressed in matching uniform, the stage was set!

Within 24hrs the guards began to harass the prisoners. The guards taunted the prisoners with insults, menial tasks and physical punishments such as cleaning the toilets with their bare hands. On the 2nd day the prisoners rebelled, ripping off their numbers and barricading themselves in their cells by placing their beds against the door. The guards retaliated and used fire extinguishers to force the prisoners away from the doors. Once they had entered the rooms the guards stripped the prisoners naked and removed their beds/bedding.

Over the course of the next few days the guards began to ritually abuse, dehumanise and harass the prisoners. As the prisoners grew ever more dependent the guards became ever more contemptuous. The prisoners began to take the rules very seriously, informing on their fellow detainees for the most innocuous of transgressions. The more submissive the prisoners became, the more aggressive and controlling the guards grew. Following a succession and acceleration of incidents, violence, and psychological breakdowns the experiment was halted six days into its planned two-week run. The majority of the guards would later express regret at the way they had behaved, many finding it difficult to comprehend they had acted in such a brutalising manner. Several of the students professed to be unaware that such a side of their nature existed or that they were capable of such acts.

Reflection

For me this is a prime example of the inherent danger behind labels, the perception of power/superiority and collectivization over individuality. The collective narrative is far easier to control and manipulate than a world of self-empowered free thinking individuals. Equally the experiment clearly displays how the perception of power corrupts and subverts our ability to empathise and humanise with those on the opposing spectrum of this dynamic. From my perspective, the psychology behind this experiment has been weaponised and rolled out into the cyberspace of social media. How did this happen and who are the guards/prisoners?

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The Build Up

For years our society has held up the far right as the epitomy of evil; many despicable acts have been justified through this mindset and I abhor racism and discrimination, so what’s the problem? Unfortunately (and I believe this is deliberate) what this has also achieved is to render subsequent generations increasingly blind to the insidious tactics of the far left, a totalitarian ideology responsible for the deaths of 100 million people. Indeed, if you follow both the left and right to their extremes you will clearly see that they are two sides of the same coin, a control mechanism.

The left/right paradigm plays to duality and the brains left/right hemispheres. Unfortunately within this cul-de-sac for the mind whether you choose the red or the blue pill, you still remain asleep to the bigger picture. From a social engineering perspective a nation that’s divided and asleep enables them to work in the dark. The left/right dichotomy plays to both sides of our brain hemispheres and yet equally fails to grant us a balanced and objective perception of reality. In reality, there is no right wing truth and there is no left wing truth, the truth simply is. Twisting the truth to suit political agendas has ensured that we now live in a world of illusion.

The alternating switch between the left and right (red and blue) dynamic sends opposing messages to each side of our brain hemispheres, leaving both ourselves and society without unity or a clearly defined direction/purpose. Our brains held in a passive aggressive state of flux (yes police lights are the same colour for a reason), passive and too forgiving of the mistakes of our leader and political party and aggressive and too confrontational towards those that offer contrary opinions and perspectives. We will never have unity within this dynamic and within this age of social media and search engines these chasms of division fracture ever wider. Complex algorithms insidiously enveloping the users and nudging them towards the extremes of their chosen ideology/political opinion.

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The Mindset

As you may have already ascertained I’m not a fan of labels as I treat people how I like to be treated, as an individual. I’m simply going to refer to the people that have unknowingly aligned themselves with the globalist agenda as the mindset. I believe said mindset to be a socially engineered construct that is born out of cultural Marxism and post modernism. A world of a million labels and a billion divisions, divide and conquer masquerading as inclusivity.

Alongside this never ending array of labels and divisions, psychology has been increasingly nudged towards the victimhood mentality. Each new fracture, division and label carries a new layer of oppression. Now don’t get me wrong, there are people that have genuine grievances and are genuinely oppressed and my heart goes out to them. Equally, I also understand that the internet victimhood culture often moves attention away from real world issues and that is another reason why I believe it has been deliberately fermented.

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Self-perceived oppression is but one aspect of what I have come to term the population control trinity; oppression, entitlement and moral superiority. Together this trinity forms an alliance that has been created to destroy the fabric of society in order that it can be taylored to the design of the engineer/manipulator. Once the perception of oppression has been created, a sense of entitlement is carefully crafted and then moving forward the engineers are only too happy to capitalise upon entitlement to create a sense of moral and intellectual superiority. The self-perceived moral superiority often comes with a proviso that ensures the denigration of the majority, because if I’m right they must all be wrong and if they’re wrong they must lack brain capacity and empathy.

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On The loose

So after a generation of cultivation, manipulation and indoctrination these psychological Frankenstein monsters have been let loose to patrol the internet. They are the guards within the social media thought ghettos whilst the majority are the prisoners. They are the guardians of the narrative and the manipulated direction of our society, minds melded to the machinations of the control structure. With vitriol they police opinion and consensus, verbally attacking and dehumanising those that step beyond their clearly defined parameters of thought and opinion. Emboldened by their high ground and self perceived moral and intellectual superiority they are now the digital brown shirts that are here to police your thoughts, destroy your opinions, your reputations, jobs and lives.

By attaching labels to and collectivising anyone that dares escape their thought prison they lack the reflection to see that they have become what they purport to hate. They are a worldwide internet Stasi that seek to own the high ground and claim dominion over the general consensus. Perhaps it's prudent to pause and reflect upon the message that the Stanford prison experiment has for the prisoner, a message that clearly states that submission opens the door to totalitarianism. At some point we must draw an intellectual line in the sand.

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Why?

Now the reasons for this are legion and I've explored many of them in the posts I’ve attached at the bottom of this one, so today I’m just going to focus upon a couple of aspects. Every component/pillar of the NWO structure has been deliberately attached to the left and given a subconscious virtue. Every opposing argument has been attached to the far right and given a subconscious perception of fascism. Free speech is suddenly far right, nationalism is far right, Brexit is racist, anti globalism is a preserve of the far right and when the one world government is finally rolled out, to oppose it will also be far right!

They are using the left/right paradigm to assemble the NWO and the vast majority of people are falling for it. Instead of focusing on the fascist corporatocracy that is pulling the world apart (whilst pretending to bring it together) the guards are cheering it on, assembling the pillars of the NWO control mechanism.

Open Borders = One world government.

Mass Immigration (Migrant crisis) = Creating social unrest to justify the police state.

The destruction of a national identity = Worldwide citizen within a one world government/Kalergi plan.

The obsession with sexuality and gender labels = to divide the population and move focus away from real world issues and matters of consequence.

An over emphasis on gender identity issues and sexuality that is predominantly directed towards school-age children = Creating a confusion that will be used to gradually dismantle the construct of the nuclear family, and restructure society in order that the manipulators exert ever greater control over the minds of the youth. This also gradually feeds into the depopulation agenda and the intended new humanism.

Denigration and destruction of masculinity = Men are often seen as protectors of family and country, as such this is Trojan horse that allows the manipulators to destroy societies last line of defense. Again, this also feeds into the depopulation agenda.

I’m not against any of this because I’m a racist or a bigot, but because I know the intent behind it and what will be born out of it. It’s very clever because they have hidden the NWO control mechanism behind fake virtue and empathy and so that anyone who speaks out is racist or a phobe of varying description. Yes of course it’s our moral duty to call out racism and bigotry and people should be free to live their lives how they choose (you are all my brothers and sisters); but bigotry is not hidden behind every innocuous mistake, micro aggression or incorrect gender pronoun.

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The Switch

A s I wrote in a previous post: The left/right paradigm both enables and drives the pendulum of totalitarianism, they manipulate the pendulum to swing to the far right and as people realise what is/has happened they attach the guilt to a populace that then instinctively runs back to the left (and vice versa). This is exactly what’s happening now and because everyone is looking to the right the pendulum of totalitarianism is currently swinging from the left, although they both feed each other and are controlled by the same puppet masters.

Now, the pendulum has been swinging for many years and so the engineers were aware that with the advent of the internet and the free flow of information people would seek to escape this perceptual prison, enter the alt-right and the alt left. As people burst out of one box they are increasingly having it replaced by another of a slightly larger size, a box that speaks to and justifies their innermost fears. Although it weaves truth amongst the fear, the alt left/alt-right paradigm is also a prison for the mind and whilst you operate within these confines it’s a trap from which there is no escape.

Indeed has anyone noticed how “truth” has been insidiously branded as alt-right and how blurred the lines are becoming between alt and far? This is an entirely deliberate attempt to draw us back into the paradigm; in fact as complex algorithms increasing nudge us towards the extremes of chosen ideologies, I believe they intend to subvert the truth movement and use it to create societal unrest. Tainting the very concept of “truth” and destroying this previous bastion of free speech, clever eh? Mark my words, truth will come to be defined as hate.

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.”

― Vladimir Lenin

Thank you for reading. Until next time I will leave you to decide who has the perceptualflaws.

Associated Posts

1)https://steemit.com/politics/@perceptualflaws/the-divide-and-conquer-of-identity-politics-and-electronic-thought-ghettos
2)https://steemit.com/conspiracy/@perceptualflaws/political-correctness-and-groupthink-in-big-brothers-brave-newspeak-world-order
3)https://steemit.com/conspiracy/@perceptualflaws/the-psychology-of-control-and-manufactured-culture

Reference

https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo-paper.pdf

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