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digit@iviv.hu
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How They Secretly Control Us

#agnotology #silentweapons #theyareusingyou

TABLE OF STRATEGIES

Do this: To get this:
Keep the public ignorant | Less public organization
Maintain access to control points for feedback | Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales)
Create preoccupation | Lower defenses
Attack the family unit | Control of the education of the young
Give less cash and more credit and doles | More self-indulgence and more data
Attack the privacy of the church | Destroy faith in this sort of government
Social conformity | Computer programming simplicity
Minimize the tax protest | Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems
Stabilize the consent | Simplicity coefficients
Tighten control of variables | Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability
Establish boundary conditions | Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations
Proper timing | Less data shift and blurring
Maximize control | Minimum resistance to control
Collapse of currency | Destroy the faith of the American people in each other.

but hey, #MaybeTheyCare

#destroying : #family #faith #freedom #funds #fun #publicorganisation #defense #wealth #resistance #democracy #republic #constitution #intelligence #education #autonomy
#creating : #conformity #control #ignorance #problemreactionsolution #reactions #pricemanipulation #destitution #desperation #dumbeddown #dumbdown #plasticwrap #consent

much more to see in the document, but that table (as #vobes highlighted) is quite concisely telling.

https://educate-yourself.org/cn/silentweaponsquietwarsmay79.shtml #1979 #1954
saw it on https://rumble.com/v3s6cjj-how-they-secretly-control-us.html

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wist@diasp.org
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A quotation by Commager, Henry Steele

It is easier to say what loyalty is not than what it is. It is not conformity. It is not passive acquiescence in the status quo. It is not preference for everything American over everything foreign. It is not an ostrich-like ignorance of other countries and other institutions. It is not the indulgence in ceremony — a flag salute, an oath of allegiance, a fervid verbal declaration. It is not a particular creed, a particular version of history, a particular body of economic practices, a particular philosophy.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist

“Who Is Loyal to America?” Harper’s Magazine #1168 (Sep 1947)

#quote #quotation #ceremony #conformity #ignorance #loyalty #nationalism #patriotism #status-quo

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/commager-henry-steele/51987/

WIST - Commager, Henry Steele | "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine #1168 (Sep 1947)

It is easier to say what loyalty is not than what it is. It is not conformity. It is not passive acquiescence in the status quo. It is not preference for everything American over everything foreign. It is not an ostrich-like ignorance of other...

wist@diasp.org
WIST

A quotation by Mill, John Stuart

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and more courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist

On Liberty, ch. 3 (1859)

#quote #quotation #character #conformity #difference #eccentricity #hybrid-vigor #tyranny-of-the-majority

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/mill-john-stuart/51707/

WIST - Mill, John Stuart | On Liberty, ch. 3 (1859)

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character...

diggers@diaspora-fr.org
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New York’s Stylish Slide Into #Despotism - The Return of the Roaring #Twenties

Source: https://modernheretic.com/

The text is so fitting that this time I have to reproduce very long passages.

concern about the supposed risk posed by “the unvaccinated,” who apparently no longer merit consideration as human beings worthy of compassion; we’ve become in the minds of people like him just a filthy amalgam of contagion and stigma.

They are not, as they have styled themselves in their own delusional minds, the hip Cagney-esque mobster with a heart of gold making gin in the bathtub or the wild flapper dancing the charleston on the roof with a skirt short enough to scandalize the matronly landlady below; they are the scandalized landlady who will snitch to the #police the first chance she gets or the sanctimonious #politician who is building his profitable career on compelled temperance.

#Rebels and #Posers

Despite lusting after subversive non-conformity, these mere re-enactors are content to live in the shadows of their rebel icons, resigned to merely creating the palest imitation of the lives of truly adventurous people from the past instead of having the courage to live their own adventures today. With their obsession for safety, these people can only infuse their lives with the adventure they still crave by living vicariously through others more daring than themselves.

That is why when finally faced with the #opportunity to rage against the machine, these imposters got behind the machine and helped push it along instead. Lacking the moral courage to stand for their supposed convictions, they sublimate their own desire to be deviant into movies and make-believe. From the #punk enthusiast with a shaved head and ripped pants to the John Waters fan who identifies with the Drapes in Crybaby–many of these people who lust after subversive non-conformity and style themselves after countercultural icons are ironically, laughably, pathetically devoted to fitting in.

When it comes to the dichotomy of maestro versus tribal character types, they are #tribal people through and through. In essence, the tribal personality is the #conformist who is conventional, strives to fit in with others, and is great at tasks requiring unity and standardization. The maestro is the aloof non-conformist who is comfortably on their own wavelength, who is not afraid to think outside the box, and prefers to work independently. According to a popular career guidance book, the vast #majority of the population are tribal types, and maestros comprise a tiny minority.

It is easy to see this dichotomy illustrated in the #pandemic. We see it amply demonstrated in mask compliance, with tribal individuals basing the strictness of their mask-wearing, not on any supposed concern about germ prevention— but solely based on what others around them are doing. They are stringent about mask wearing when around others who also appear to be strict in their compliance. But when around others who defy the custom, they let their masks slip down to their chins or even take it off altogether because they know the risk of social ostracism is low. For most people, the mask serves as a social tool rather than a tool of supposed #hygiene.

Tribal people’s sense of values is relative and changes based on their social environments. All the societal evils that have taken place in the United States (and elsewhere) have occurred by the hands of an #establishment with the consent and complicity of masses of otherwise good, tribal-minded people who lacked the #independence and courage to be deviant. If it looks like the majority are going along with something, even something in retrospect that would clearly be deemed wrong or evil, the tribal person will go along with it as well by rationalizing their guilt and responsibility away. These rationalizations, collectively, become mass delusions that are later used to excuse the complicity in the wrong-doing. “We did not now any better,” or “it was a different time,” they will say. Hogwash. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they lacked the courage to stand apart from the crowd. For every mass atrocity that was committed, there was a strident minority that not only knew better but tried to hold the majority to task for its actions. These minorities were #historically and are currently dismissed, ignored, laughed at, socially ostracized, or even penalized.

Progressive #ideology teaches that we are better than previous generations, that we have learned our lessons from past mistakes, and that we will not repeat those mistakes. This is a load of crock, and the past two years have shown that humans are no more evolved now than they were at any previous period, that they are more willing than ever to persecute others for their differences and to subjugate people into #conformity. If nothing else, the pandemic revealed that most people today have no deep understanding of why various past persecutions were wrong, and if persecution today does not look exactly like a persecution of yesterday they cannot recognize it for what it is. Their understanding of persecution as a moral wrong is a reductionist list of rote memorization rather than an innate value borne of an underlying moral #philosophy.

These tribal-minded people, these supposed lovers of #rebellion and #subversion, are going to rationalize their culpability and cowardice away. They always do. They will say that they were operating on the best information they had at the time, that no one could have known, that even the experts were fooled, that they simply followed the leaders and experts.

We cannot let them get away with these lies.

Their complicity was not an innocent mistake as they will try to make us believe, but a willful effort to persecute the rebel #opposition.

Declared emergencies are the most expedient way for governments to seize power and the method by which many military dictatorships come into existence. A medical #dictatorship is a new twist on an old classic. Emergency powers enable politicians to do things they otherwise do not have the power to do and to severely trample on the rights of the citizenry

#history #society #today_like_yesterday

digit@joindiaspora.com
Digit

here's my #WordOfTheYear.

and, yes, not just #wordoftheday, or #wordoftheweek, or #wordofthemonth.
this word's my #2022 word.

Agnotology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
#agnotology

here follows a handful of first lines from the definition blurbs from this websearch: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=agnotology+definition&kl=uk-en&ia=definition :

The study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.

Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data

Agnotology is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.

Agnotology (n.) the study of culturally-propagated ignorance or doubt in provable fact

Agnotology is a branch of science which looks at the ways in which doubt or ignorance about certain subjects is created. A very good example of how this happens is the publication of scientific studies that rely on data that is inaccurate or misleading.

etymologically, my guess is the gno in there's like gnosis, like knowledge n learning. and the A before it, denoting an absence thereof, and the ology, being the study thereof.

and, i'll quote these two middle paragraphs from the simple english wiki page too, as i think they're excellent at highlighting what it is, and why it's important (not to mention the lesson from it to be applied to contemporary matters...) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology ...

The neologism was coined by Robert N. Proctor,[1][2] a Stanford University professor specializing in the history of science and technology.[3] Proctor cites the tobacco industry's conspiracy to manufacture doubt about the cancer risks of tobacco use as a very good example of how this can be done. Under the banner of science, the industry produced research about everything except tobacco hazards to exploit public uncertainty.[4]

The way in which media attention works can be exploited to produce ignorance. Other factors that influence it are that corporations or governments do not reveal certain facts. At times, they force these facts to be removed if they have been revealed. The methods they use include censorship, destroying documents, putting the weight of certain facts differently, or being inattentive or forgetful.

#ignorance

#agnotology

#media #science #government #propaganda #deception #willfulignorance #masshypnosis #menticide #terror #weaponsofmassdistraction #inducedignorance #oblivious #oblivion #inattentiveblindness #misdirection #communication #conception #curiosity #attention#awareness #education #elucidation #information #disinterest #disregard #incuriousness #normality #apathy #newnormal #newspeak #intimidation #suppression #censorship #doubt #editting #study #research #publication #loopholes #jumpingthroughhoops #alltheliesfittopublish #alltheliesfittobroadcast #network #incuriosity #unconcern #conformity #fear #obedience #compliance #capitulation #culpable #complicit #OBEY

#overtonwindow

Agnotology - Wikipedia

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