RE: Hacking the human mind and behavior: Part 2 - Big data psychological profiling and manipulation of the individual and the masses
A truly phenomenal post! So many people have been informed by their elementary indoctrination that understanding is the result of a horrible process that they do not enjoy, and ending with Lipton and his presentation illustrates why that is the purpose of school.
If we do not purpose to effect our understanding by defining ourselves, we allow others to. Another way to say this is the old saw 'If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.'
As most all of us did, I told myself 'I wouldn't fall for that!' regarding the subliminal psychology demonstrations the first few videos presented. But...
Bacon and eggs. As a child, I grasped the delicious, nutritious relevance of the hearty fare we were served in the morning before a big day as something that has been passed down through the ages by a culture determined to master it's place in the world. I perceived bacon and eggs, toast, and jam to be an ancient fuel for mastery of the day that millenia of testing and experiential evidence proved out.
I can't say I thought of breakfast in those particular words, but that was the sense I made of a hearty breakfast and the subsequent mastery we exerted on our world, and our place in it. There were times when most of the island I was raised on were focused on a particular endeavor, such as the herring run, a salmon run; some season or another when a given resource was to be exploited, and in my household, the predawn ritual of fueling our bodies with bacon, eggs, toast, and various ancillary menu items girded our loins for the coming work.
But, the association of bacon and eggs was not a millenia old cultural artifact, proved by countless mornings when alternatives were tested against it by people facing important days. It was an invention by Edward Bernays in the 1920s, under contract to a bacon canning company to create more demand for it's products.
My entire world view has been cynically crafted by propaganda, and my romantic ideals absorbed in those early morning preparations for harvests, that scheme to make money, and I incorporated it into the culture of my people, that has been passed down for millenia.
It is this reason that these truths, these facts about us, and not only the possession of this data by others, but the witholding of that data from ourselves, is an existentially important topic. We craft our world from our perceptions, and what we don't know is as important as what we do.
This importance does not end with us, but is handed down to our posterity, and through our children into all the future peoples of the world. What we know, and what we think we know that isn't so, is far more important than any other factor in the felicity of our species.
Thanks!
Thanks very much!
100% correct. Our reality and our culture has been crafted for us. We like to believe that our culture is our own. Bernays, Hollywood, and many other societal manipulators have instead designed it for us. Culture is simply societal habit. As long as you can get the masses into any longstanding belief or habit, you have created culture.
The societal controllers have been scientifically designing, holding, and course-correcting this manufactured culture since at least the start of the 20th century. Of course, it goes back much earlier than this, but I think they have truly made a science of it in the last 100 years or so. Before this they primarily influenced through Pied Piper movements run out of secret societies, newspapers, as well as through the creation of structured education / training (read indoctrination) systems. Now they have so many channels for manipulation it's almost unassailable.
The scariest part is that our posterity will not remember what a free thinking and acting society is like. They are being raised on a diet of deception, manipulation, addiction, memory-holed truth, and self-managed social control. We are creating a society of milquetoast, lukewarm, snowflakes that are unable to think and act freely even in the face of their imminent culling. They are being bred so as to not be able to withstand the scientific herding that we are being subject to. Eventually this Matrix-born and bred generation will be used to finally eviscerate the remaining rights and freedoms that we have left.
I don't think they'll succeed at creating a society of slaves, eventually. There is a tension between reality and induced visions that technology skews towards reality. It requires reason to operate technology, and people incapable of being reasonable are incompetent to be of much use, since they can't even be useful other than as cannon fodder or bedslaves.
I believe this is the reason that as technology has increased over the centuries, freedom has become more of a factor politically. While Germanic barbarian tribes may have experienced considerably more personal freedom than we do today, when it came to dying in battle, they probably had little choice but to field steel for tribe and chief.
I expect this trend to continue, and at an exponentially increasing rate, as technology increases.
We are beginning to see the enemedia utterly lose control. They are desperately banning accounts, deleting information, and various other oppressions intended to maintain their grasp on 'facts', but are destroying their very power by doing so.
I have noted numerous truthers popping up on Steemit as such censorship prevents them from using competing platforms. What is the outcome of this? We see Fakebook, Youtool, and Twatter all declining in popularity, and Steemit growing.
We will be free!
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I pray that this is the case. It's correct that you need some level of intelligent, rationally thinking workers still. It would take some very sophisticated AI to handle a lot of this work, and they're not there yet (although I'm sure their working on it.) However, I know a hell of a lot of very well educated people that, despite their "book intelligence," are dumber than a post when it comes to understanding the big picture and the manipulation out there. This means that as long as the "Brave New World portion" of the program being put in place doesn't too far exceed the "1984, boot stamping on the face" portion of the program, people will just be kept more and more busy and meander along as usual supporting the Luciferian empire without ever really realizing that it's right there in front of them.
I don't want to be pessimistic (and if I were totally pessimistic, I wouldn't bother writing and posting a lot of truth topics here), but the state of perpetuated addiction and indoctrination is so high, that it's going to take some major shifts very soon to keep us from diving head first into the abyss.
In the meantime keep up the good fight.. and thanks to you too!