Narrative, the greatest weapon of mass mind destruction:
Ten Ways the 1% - Who Own Almost All Media - Are Manipulating Us Right Now, by Unknown
1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.
2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.
3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.
4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.
5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.
6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.
7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.
8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.
9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.
10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable.
Thank you. Very interesting. I've seen them seize the narrative immediately after any event, and that becomes the story. The first story is nearly unassailable.
10 is questionable. Some people know some things. If we are to believe that we cannot understand anything, that is a helpless and hopeless position.
I look at it more as a warning to always remember to test our assumptions. The powers that shouldn’t be never sleep:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... In almost every act of our daily lives ... we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” —Edward Bernays, Father of Propaganda, (Related to Freud and the great uncle of the founder of Netflix)
They do it because it works. Sadly, given the nature of governments today, i.e., they ignore international and national and natural law at will, why would they even bother trying to manufacture consent from a population that couldn't do anything to stop the atrocities if they wanted to. Governments no longer need the "consent of the governed" to commit crimes against humanity with impunity.
I just updated my latest October 7th article by quoting this article's section on the false baby killings and rapes; the citation is linked back to this article. Thanks again for this excellent piece.
Yes, I remember that. Controlling the narrative with fake news. Public opinion was on somebody’s drawing board before it became public opinion. Manufacturing consent. Or in this particular case, outrage. Papa Bush’s Gulf War.
It is a narrative that goes back to what religious scholar Bruce Lincoln calls "the cattle thief story." He calls "myth." It is always the same, and it is used by the profiteers to enlist the majority. Thanks for this work. The more we do this in all cases, the more we combat the actual violent theft.
I have long studies into the Iran-Persian history and the take over by the Islamist mullahs. They are invaders of Iran and a delusional/delirious group of people that want to build a world`s caliphate. They support the worst world terrorist organizations with their money, they oppress women, treating them as second class humans, they think their worst enemy is the State of Israel and her people, they are the ones to be slaughtered first. It is a festival of absurd and atrocities. I really think that after they killed so many of their won people and keep killing and oppressing, all these mullahs should leave the Earth and be sent to the paradise of Allah. The USA has my permission to go and make this brutal regime to fall.
Hey, women in Iran have PAID MATERNITY LEAVE. Women in Iran have FREE HEALTHCARE. Women in Iran DRESS AS THEY PLEASE. Women in the US DON'T HAVE PAID MATERNITY LEAVE. Women in the US DON'T HAVE FREE HEALTHCARE. Many women in the US CAN'T EVEN GET AN ABORTION. You know absolutely nothing.
Women in Iran are subjected to men’s will, they are considered animals to be owned by men. They are forced to cover their hairs and bodies to hide their beauty from the wild muslim men animals otherwise they are raped, acidified, beaten and killed.
Women in Iran since babies they are oppressed to live inside the islam box, with no freedom, no autonomy, no independence.
Yeah! They may sit on the seats, but have no voice! Parliament is to “parler”, but in a totalitarian theocratic regime, nobody can speak anything different than the regime allows. See how many students and their families were killed on the streets lately just for speaking and asking for a different regime. Something that the totalitarians do not allow. Just for saying: “Long Life to the Shah!” - would get killed! Such a barbaric absurd! We must vanish this absurd from the face of the Earth.
Regina, please go back and read up on who furnished weapons to Khomeini (hint: the “Little Satan”) in the Iran-Iraq War before you post another delusional screed of inane lies:
So, the greed is what makes the satan. I can see that. Sold weapons to make money, and having the hope they would kill each other (Iran-Iraq). It seems to me that now the game has changed.
Edward Bernays, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg, Norman Lear, Jon Leibowitz Stewart, Lorne Michaels, Hasbara, all those tap tap tap writers of the Mitzvah vein, all those Holly-Dirt Talmudists, man oh man, they have a hell of a run on propaganda and lies and perversity. ADL, the entire Shabbat Goy Brigades, whew . . . see who they keep company with!!!!!!!!!!!
Paulo, buddy, the fattened sacrificial goat doesn’t control the priesthood that fattens it. The “Zionist Jews” are nothing more than red shields (a.k.a. “rothschilds”) for the neo-Templar world order agenda that sets them up as both a scapegoat and simultaneously as a sacrificial goat in a mass Templar-orchestrated Sabbatean-Frankist counterfeit of the Day of Atonement.
One of the most cunningly effective psyops deployed by the actual world controllers is deluding low-IQ people like yourself into believing that the red shield controls the Templar who holds it.
Whether the narrative is:
- "Christians burned Rome!" (Nero)
- "a lone Communist burned Reichstag!" (Hitler)
- "Communists are behind the terrorist attacks!" (P2-sponsored Italian neofascists)
- "Saddam's Iraqis took babies out of incubators!" (Nayirah)
- "Gaddafi viagra mass r*pes!" (Clinton)
- "Assad used chemical weapons!" (Anglo-Zionist-ISIS)
...it's all the same false flag orchestration pattern. Hardly anything new under the sun.
It works.
And what's more, in spite of a long and lavishly documented track record of lies, humans fall for it, over and over again.
Narrative, the greatest weapon of mass mind destruction:
Ten Ways the 1% - Who Own Almost All Media - Are Manipulating Us Right Now, by Unknown
1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.
2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.
3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.
4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.
5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.
6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.
7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.
8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.
9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.
10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable.
Thank you. Very interesting. I've seen them seize the narrative immediately after any event, and that becomes the story. The first story is nearly unassailable.
10 is questionable. Some people know some things. If we are to believe that we cannot understand anything, that is a helpless and hopeless position.
I look at it more as a warning to always remember to test our assumptions. The powers that shouldn’t be never sleep:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... In almost every act of our daily lives ... we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” —Edward Bernays, Father of Propaganda, (Related to Freud and the great uncle of the founder of Netflix)
Thank you. I've been trying to remember Bernays's name.
They do it because it works. Sadly, given the nature of governments today, i.e., they ignore international and national and natural law at will, why would they even bother trying to manufacture consent from a population that couldn't do anything to stop the atrocities if they wanted to. Governments no longer need the "consent of the governed" to commit crimes against humanity with impunity.
I'd add it isn't really consent--as popularized. It is coercion.
I just updated my latest October 7th article by quoting this article's section on the false baby killings and rapes; the citation is linked back to this article. Thanks again for this excellent piece.
This is such a superb column. Please keep it up.
Yes, I remember that. Controlling the narrative with fake news. Public opinion was on somebody’s drawing board before it became public opinion. Manufacturing consent. Or in this particular case, outrage. Papa Bush’s Gulf War.
Exaggerated claims of “atrocities” to support a geopolitical narrative? Where have we seen those before? Same songbook, different song.
Her dad also had told the story about the Bush plot in Kuwait which Seymour Hersh debunked - crazy stuff
This sort of propaganda is at least as old as the “babies on bayonets” stuff from British WWI posters.
It is a narrative that goes back to what religious scholar Bruce Lincoln calls "the cattle thief story." He calls "myth." It is always the same, and it is used by the profiteers to enlist the majority. Thanks for this work. The more we do this in all cases, the more we combat the actual violent theft.
In any conflict one should question all supposed facts, especially in the first 48 hours to the first few weeks. Time tends to bring out the truth.
I have long studies into the Iran-Persian history and the take over by the Islamist mullahs. They are invaders of Iran and a delusional/delirious group of people that want to build a world`s caliphate. They support the worst world terrorist organizations with their money, they oppress women, treating them as second class humans, they think their worst enemy is the State of Israel and her people, they are the ones to be slaughtered first. It is a festival of absurd and atrocities. I really think that after they killed so many of their won people and keep killing and oppressing, all these mullahs should leave the Earth and be sent to the paradise of Allah. The USA has my permission to go and make this brutal regime to fall.
Hey, women in Iran have PAID MATERNITY LEAVE. Women in Iran have FREE HEALTHCARE. Women in Iran DRESS AS THEY PLEASE. Women in the US DON'T HAVE PAID MATERNITY LEAVE. Women in the US DON'T HAVE FREE HEALTHCARE. Many women in the US CAN'T EVEN GET AN ABORTION. You know absolutely nothing.
Women in Iran are subjected to men’s will, they are considered animals to be owned by men. They are forced to cover their hairs and bodies to hide their beauty from the wild muslim men animals otherwise they are raped, acidified, beaten and killed.
Women in Iran since babies they are oppressed to live inside the islam box, with no freedom, no autonomy, no independence.
FREE IRAN NOW!
No they absolutely aren't. Fuck off Nazi.
Considering Iran has seats in the Parliament reserved for Jews, as well as Christians and Zoroastrians, you sound like a maniac.
Yeah! They may sit on the seats, but have no voice! Parliament is to “parler”, but in a totalitarian theocratic regime, nobody can speak anything different than the regime allows. See how many students and their families were killed on the streets lately just for speaking and asking for a different regime. Something that the totalitarians do not allow. Just for saying: “Long Life to the Shah!” - would get killed! Such a barbaric absurd! We must vanish this absurd from the face of the Earth.
Of course, like the touching concern for the freedom of Iraqis, Libyans Syrians and the like.
Regina, please go back and read up on who furnished weapons to Khomeini (hint: the “Little Satan”) in the Iran-Iraq War before you post another delusional screed of inane lies:
https://ia800301.us.archive.org/26/items/treacherous-alliance-trita-parsi/treacherous-alliance-trita-parsi.pdf
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200225-israel-and-iran-were-partners-during-war-against-saddam-says-ex-uk-fm/
https://www.wrmea.org/1988-april/khomeini-s-iran-israel-s-ally.html
So, the greed is what makes the satan. I can see that. Sold weapons to make money, and having the hope they would kill each other (Iran-Iraq). It seems to me that now the game has changed.
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Anyone referring to Iran as Persia should be isolated from civilized culture.
Edward Bernays, Mel Brooks, Steven Spielberg, Norman Lear, Jon Leibowitz Stewart, Lorne Michaels, Hasbara, all those tap tap tap writers of the Mitzvah vein, all those Holly-Dirt Talmudists, man oh man, they have a hell of a run on propaganda and lies and perversity. ADL, the entire Shabbat Goy Brigades, whew . . . see who they keep company with!!!!!!!!!!!
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/look-who-they-share-their-toilets
Paulo, buddy, the fattened sacrificial goat doesn’t control the priesthood that fattens it. The “Zionist Jews” are nothing more than red shields (a.k.a. “rothschilds”) for the neo-Templar world order agenda that sets them up as both a scapegoat and simultaneously as a sacrificial goat in a mass Templar-orchestrated Sabbatean-Frankist counterfeit of the Day of Atonement.
One of the most cunningly effective psyops deployed by the actual world controllers is deluding low-IQ people like yourself into believing that the red shield controls the Templar who holds it.