Narrative control is pretty much how this panopticon fucks with our heads and grooms us.
I hate how tin foil this makes me sound. But like, the US government straight up admitted to researching how to control the population with weird shit like MKUltra. It’s not that wild to think that in 70+ years of research they haven’t figured out how to psychologically manipulate the population.
You see it with how sharply the paradigm shifted with young people to cynical “might makes right” bully shit straight after Trump won and the powers that be started fucking with social media again. Again, makes me sound like I’m sniffing Alex Jones style conspiracy nonsense. But suddenly we got “Gen Z loves the right actually” and a new wave of douchey anti-empathy mindset right out of the 2010s.
But also all this is pointless to dwell on or you will go absolutely paranoid.
I know how that feels, i’ve done a bit of research about who funds anti-trans / anti-feminist / anti-abortion / MRA networks (which, ofc, all have enormous overlap) and when i lay that out i basically have to go full corkboard scheme.
I think I’d rather have a small number of enemies who have a lot of influence than a truely diffused mass movement to fight against. More a dartboard than a corkboard.
Why wouldn’t they apply marketing/behavioral research to Politics? You’re not really making any outlandish claims. It’s okay to be aware of this, but like you said, if it makes you fall into conspiracy theories and black pill, it can also be dangerous.
Like I don’t think there’s any shadowy organization controlling the people. Why would they want to control people anyways, when they can control the system?
Let’s use psychiatry as an example, it’s meant to help people function better, but under capitalism it’s more beneficial to have a repeat customer, so it’s not outlandish to suggest some % of psychiatrists will avoid tackling problems in order to benefit their bottom line. If someone turns that into “The Illuminati are ordering our psychiatrists to ruin our society. Don’t go to a doctor!” - that’s reactionary thinking.
One of the ways that the government tries to gaslight everyone is by saying that these programs are all historical and of course don’t exist today.
TrueAnon often points out that this is if course not true. It’s the same people in the same organizations working there, budgets are the same or growing, the US still has the same policies and global political role - why would anything really think that these departments would cut some of their most researched and effective programs? It makes no sense
It does make you sound crazy, but it’s entirely true. The reason it sounds so crazy is because we’ve been conditioned to think that corpos all act separately from the government and the bourgeiosie don’t have shared class interests.
Narrative control is pretty much how this panopticon fucks with our heads and grooms us.
I hate how tin foil this makes me sound. But like, the US government straight up admitted to researching how to control the population with weird shit like MKUltra. It’s not that wild to think that in 70+ years of research they haven’t figured out how to psychologically manipulate the population.
You see it with how sharply the paradigm shifted with young people to cynical “might makes right” bully shit straight after Trump won and the powers that be started fucking with social media again. Again, makes me sound like I’m sniffing Alex Jones style conspiracy nonsense. But suddenly we got “Gen Z loves the right actually” and a new wave of douchey anti-empathy mindset right out of the 2010s.
But also all this is pointless to dwell on or you will go absolutely paranoid.
I know how that feels, i’ve done a bit of research about who funds anti-trans / anti-feminist / anti-abortion / MRA networks (which, ofc, all have enormous overlap) and when i lay that out i basically have to go full corkboard scheme.
I think I’d rather have a small number of enemies who have a lot of influence than a truely diffused mass movement to fight against. More a dartboard than a corkboard.
Why wouldn’t they apply marketing/behavioral research to Politics? You’re not really making any outlandish claims. It’s okay to be aware of this, but like you said, if it makes you fall into conspiracy theories and black pill, it can also be dangerous.
Like I don’t think there’s any shadowy organization controlling the people. Why would they want to control people anyways, when they can control the system?
Let’s use psychiatry as an example, it’s meant to help people function better, but under capitalism it’s more beneficial to have a repeat customer, so it’s not outlandish to suggest some % of psychiatrists will avoid tackling problems in order to benefit their bottom line. If someone turns that into “The Illuminati are ordering our psychiatrists to ruin our society. Don’t go to a doctor!” - that’s reactionary thinking.
I fully agree.
One of the ways that the government tries to gaslight everyone is by saying that these programs are all historical and of course don’t exist today.
TrueAnon often points out that this is if course not true. It’s the same people in the same organizations working there, budgets are the same or growing, the US still has the same policies and global political role - why would anything really think that these departments would cut some of their most researched and effective programs? It makes no sense
It does make you sound crazy, but it’s entirely true. The reason it sounds so crazy is because we’ve been conditioned to think that corpos all act separately from the government and the bourgeiosie don’t have shared class interests.