With any given object, or person or concept - we 'seduce ourselves' to construct a narrative and formula useful to complete thoughts . . such as French Silk Pie = <whatever> or TMO = <whatever you want to plug in>
Whether these narratives and formulas come from the outside world, such as the media or gurus - - or whether these formulas come from our own inner thought processes - they are brainwashing. Don't think for a moment that if we come up with a formula, or adopt a formula that lines up with our inclinations and passes all our tests - don't think for a moment that formula is not brainwashing. It is still a formula and it taints our world. If a formula gets you where you want to go, great, if not, dump it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > YMMV, but I see a lot of the TMO in the below. > > Edg > > http://tinyurl.com/2yelvx > > 3 Tools To Brainwash and Influence People Through Media > > `'till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum > of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. > The adult's mind too all his life long. The mind that judges and > desires and decides made up of these suggestions. But all these > suggestions are our suggestions!" - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World > > The opinions and behaviors of people and societies are easily swayed. > Every decade, every year, every week, those who control mass media > change the climates of human thought. New pop stars, fashions, and > fads are paraded center stage and then exit stage left followed by > floods of expendable cash, leaving the path of sordid garbage known as > "popular culture" in its wake. > > Now the power to rule the world and wag the cultural dog is at your > fingertips. What follows are simple instructions, a manual, a playbook > of sorts, some simple behavioral tools to influence and take advantage > of the nervous systems of all your peers. > > The 23 Tools: > > 1. The key to truly effective brainwashing is to work at people's most > fundamental awareness. Shape them at the neurological level so they > develop the faculties to take your input and call it "thinking for > myself." Enable them to stop thinking. > > 2. Limit any and all faculties for self-awareness and self-sensing. > Destroy instinct and intuition. Actively and endlessly encourage > external awareness. Make people dependent on your external input for > as many decisions as possible. > > 3. Speed up messages so that the pace and rhythm of information is > disorienting and visually biased. > > 4. Condition people to being bombarded with hundreds of thousands of > signals a day. Teach them to attend to this stream of information and > to call it Reality. Never let them ask what "reality" is. > > 5. Framing is everything. Decide what you want people to believe and > make sure that any choices you give them are within a framework which > assures you of your result. This is called the Illusion of Choice. "Do > you want to sweep the floor before or after dinner?" Repeat this > formula for economic systems, politicians, news stories, competing > product brands and entertainment. > > 6. Appeal to the lowest common denominator. Make sure that all shows > model conflict resolution of people with an emotional and intellectual > maturity no greater than that of a six year old. Make it funny so no > one notices. > > 7. Keep people passive. Encourage the Couch Potato Alpha Wave Escape > Plan as the healing elixir for all that ails. > > 8. Don't make people think. Their days are hard enough as is. Bypass > the need for opinion making by giving people ready-made opinions. Do > it as though you don't have a conscience they are probably too > stupid to make their own decisions anyway. > > 9. Ensure that there are no ongoing storylines with meaning or purpose > beyond immediate sensory stimulation. Avoid universal themes as much > as possible. Make absolutely certain there is no cultural, societal or > global story or mythology present that conflicts with the myths of > comfort and consumption. > > 10. Never encourage responsibility, or so much as suggest that humans > could be involved in co-creating their future and the realities in > which they reside. > > 11. Encourage group-sanctioned individuality only. By making > `individuality" the new conformity you are generating a powerful > illusion of free choice. > > 12. Sensationalize the superficial. > > 13. Keep information bytes infinitesimally small. Promote Attention > Deficit Disorder. Several decades of television have already set this > in motion. > > 14. Repetition is key. Repeat important messages as often as possible. > > 15. Repetition is key. > > 16. Repetition is key. > > 17. Bypass rationality by any means possible. People don't need logic > to accept information. Belief is emotional. Always remember: WAR=PEACE. > > 18. Remember - two half-truths make up a whole truth. > > 19. Demonize self-knowledge technology of all kinds. Throw around > words like "cult" and "brainwashing." Marginalize anyone involved in > such pursuits. > > 20. Keep old models of consciousness alive and well. If you can get > away with referring to people's states as being phlegmatic or sanguine > instead of programmable and intentional, do it. > > 21. Keep people's attention on what really matters. Emphasize what's > wrong as much as possible. > > 22. Always give the impression that Everything Is Under Control but > just barely so hammer into the populace the idea that their greatest > fear could strike at any moment. > > 23. Teach people that they are their thoughts and emotions. Reinforce > this by teaching them to feel bad about their ideas, and to feel bad > about feeling bad. Remember: Identify, identify, identify - this will > widen the empty void inside of them that only shopping can cure. > > By sticking to these simple premises you should be able to produce > entire societies capable of ending world hunger, but too selfish to > care. You will be able to bring about massive consumer mindsets and > buying habits so powerful that logic and reason become superfluous in > making the sale. You will be the new face of media. Good luck! >
