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We are experiencing the massive acceleration of the Information Age | [[File:Criticalthinking.jpg|thumb|Critical Thinking Chart - Who? What? Where? When? and Why?]] | ||
We are experiencing the massive acceleration of the Information Age, also known as the Computer Age and Digital Age (circa 2016), which is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industrialization, to an economy that is completely based on information computerization. During the Information Age, the phenomenon is that the digital industry creates a knowledge-based society surrounded by a high-tech global economy, which we can see is pushing for the agenda of eradicating paper money and coin transactions. In the [[Consumerism|consumer society]], the information industry allows individuals to focus on their personalized needs, therefore simplifying the procedure for all kinds of social or consumer activities, like making online payments or mobile transactions. At the same time making transactions has become more convenient when it’s all digitized, the information is being gathered as an intelligence operation to use as a control mechanism against the population. The Information Age has been formed by the corporations and the [[Controller Pillars of Society|main pillars of society]] capitalizing on the computer trends to manufacture ever smaller mechanical, optical and electronic products and devices. The evolution of technology as the current standard in our every daily life, and the increased access to social organization and forms of media, has led to the modernization of information and communication processes that is the driving force behind human social evolution, while shaping societies values and influencing public policies. This has both very positive and negative impacts, as this must happen to align with the creation of a free information global society, while at the same time those in control try to take over all forms of access to education, knowledge and information. We are in a battle over access to truthful and accurate information and knowledge, and its critical we all understand what is at stake now. | |||
==Digital and Information Age== | ==Digital and Information Age== | ||
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==What is Media Literacy?== | ==What is Media Literacy?== | ||
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For centuries, literacy has referred to the ability to read and write. Today, we get most of our information through an interwoven system of media technologies. The ability to read and access many types of media has become an essential skill in the 21st Century. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and generate media. Media literate youth and adults are better able to understand the complex messages that we receive from television, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, and all other forms of media. Media literacy is an effective way to apply critical thinking skills and apply reasoning and common sense skills to a wide range of social issues. | For centuries, literacy has referred to the ability to read and write. Today, we get most of our information through an interwoven system of media technologies. The ability to read and access many types of media has become an essential skill in the 21st Century. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and generate media. Media literate youth and adults are better able to understand the complex messages that we receive from television, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, and all other forms of media. Media literacy is an effective way to apply critical thinking skills and apply reasoning and common sense skills to a wide range of social issues. | ||
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Media literacy skills can help us all: | Media literacy skills can help us all: | ||
- Develop | - Develop [[Critical Thinking]] skills | ||
- Understand how media messages shape our culture and society | - Understand how media messages shape our culture and society | ||
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==The 10 Strategies of Media Manipulation== | ==The 10 Strategies of Media Manipulation== | ||
1. The Strategy of Distraction | ==1. The Strategy of Distraction== | ||
The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction which is to divert public attention from important issues and changes determined by the political and economic elites, by the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. The distraction strategy is also essential to prevent the public interest in accessing the essential knowledge in the areas of science, economics, psychology, neurobiology and cybernetics. “Maintaining public attention diverted away from the real social problems, captivated by matters of no real importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to farm and other animals (quote from text Silent Weapons for Quiet War ).” | The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction which is to divert public attention from important issues and changes determined by the political and economic elites, by the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. The distraction strategy is also essential to prevent the public interest in accessing the essential knowledge in the areas of science, economics, psychology, neurobiology and cybernetics. “Maintaining public attention diverted away from the real social problems, captivated by matters of no real importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to farm and other animals (quote from text Silent Weapons for Quiet War ).” | ||
2. Create Problems, then offer Solutions | ==2. Create Problems, then offer Solutions== | ||
This method is also called problem-reaction-solution. They create a problem, a situation that is referred to cause some reaction in the public or audience, so that this problem is the principal of the steps that they want you to accept. For example: let the problem unfold and intensify urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks in order that the public is made pliable to accept security laws and policies that are the detriment of personal freedoms. Or: to create an economic crisis and make that acceptable as a necessary evil, while limiting social and human rights, with the dismantling of public services. | This method is also called problem-reaction-solution. They create a problem, a situation that is referred to cause some reaction in the public or audience, so that this problem is the principal of the steps that they want you to accept. For example: let the problem unfold and intensify urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks in order that the public is made pliable to accept security laws and policies that are the detriment of personal freedoms. Or: to create an economic crisis and make that acceptable as a necessary evil, while limiting social and human rights, with the dismantling of public services. | ||
3. The Gradual Strategy or Desensitization | ==3. The Gradual Strategy or Desensitization== | ||
To desensitize major issues through cultivating public acceptance to an unacceptable degree, just apply the changes gradually, little by little, over many consecutive years. That is how the radically new socioeconomic conditions ( neoliberalism ) were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s: the minimal state, privatization, instability, massive unemployment, low wages, and did not guarantee a decent income, so many of these changes would have brought about a revolution, if these changes had been applied all at once. Apply these changes gradually with distractions, in order to desensitize and acclimate people to easily accept these changes. | To desensitize major issues through cultivating public acceptance to an unacceptable degree, just apply the changes gradually, little by little, over many consecutive years. That is how the radically new socioeconomic conditions ( neoliberalism ) were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s: the minimal state, privatization, instability, massive unemployment, low wages, and did not guarantee a decent income, so many of these changes would have brought about a revolution, if these changes had been applied all at once. Apply these changes gradually with distractions, in order to desensitize and acclimate people to easily accept these changes. | ||
4. The Strategy of Deferring | ==4. The Strategy of Deferring== | ||
Another way to accept an unpopular decision is to present it as painful and necessary, by gaining public acceptance, at the time it will be used for a future application. It is easier to accept that a future sacrifice is necessary than of an immediate slaughter. In the beginning of introducing the idea to the public, people accept it because the effort is not being used immediately. Then, because the public has the tendency to expect naively that everything will be better tomorrow and that the sacrifice required may be avoided in the future. This plays on people's hope and optimism, getting them to accept something unpleasant in the future. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of painful changes and accept it with resignation, when the time comes. | Another way to accept an unpopular decision is to present it as painful and necessary, by gaining public acceptance, at the time it will be used for a future application. It is easier to accept that a future sacrifice is necessary than of an immediate slaughter. In the beginning of introducing the idea to the public, people accept it because the effort is not being used immediately. Then, because the public has the tendency to expect naively that everything will be better tomorrow and that the sacrifice required may be avoided in the future. This plays on people's hope and optimism, getting them to accept something unpleasant in the future. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of painful changes and accept it with resignation, when the time comes. | ||
5. Go to the Public as a Little Child | ==5. Go to the Public as a Little Child== | ||
Most of the advertising to the general public uses speech, argument, people and particularly children’s intonation, often close to the emotional weakness, as if the viewer were a little child or a mentally deficient. The harder one tries to deceive the viewer, the more it tends to adopt a tone infantilizing. Why? “If one goes to a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, because of suggestion, she tends with a certain probability that a response or reaction also devoid of a critical sense as a person 12 years or younger (see Silent Weapons for Quiet War ).” | Most of the advertising to the general public uses speech, argument, people and particularly children’s intonation, often close to the emotional weakness, as if the viewer were a little child or a mentally deficient. The harder one tries to deceive the viewer, the more it tends to adopt a tone infantilizing. Why? “If one goes to a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, because of suggestion, she tends with a certain probability that a response or reaction also devoid of a critical sense as a person 12 years or younger (see Silent Weapons for Quiet War ).” | ||
6. Use the Emotional Reaction more than the Reflection | ==6. Use the Emotional Reaction more than the Reflection== | ||
Making use of the emotional aspect is a classic technique for causing a short circuit on rational analysis and critical thinking, and finally to short circuit the common sense of the individual. Furthermore, the use of emotional register to open the door to the unconscious mind for implantation or grafting ideas, desires, fears and anxieties, addictions, or inducing certain behaviors. | Making use of the emotional aspect is a classic technique for causing a short circuit on rational analysis and critical thinking, and finally to short circuit the common sense of the individual. Furthermore, the use of emotional register to open the door to the unconscious mind for implantation or grafting ideas, desires, fears and anxieties, addictions, or inducing certain behaviors. | ||
7. Keep the Public in Ignorance and Mediocrity | ==7. Keep the Public in Ignorance and Mediocrity== | ||
Making the public incapable of understanding the technologies and methods that are used to mind control and enslave. “The quality of education given to the lower social classes must be the poor and mediocre as possible so that the gap of ignorance it plans among the lower classes and upper classes is and remains impossible to attain for the lower classes (Silent Weapons for Quiet War ).” | Making the public incapable of understanding the technologies and methods that are used to mind control and enslave. “The quality of education given to the lower social classes must be the poor and mediocre as possible so that the gap of ignorance it plans among the lower classes and upper classes is and remains impossible to attain for the lower classes ([[Silent Weapons]] for Quiet War).” | ||
8. To encourage the Public to be Complacent with Mediocrity | ==8. To encourage the Public to be Complacent with Mediocrity== | ||
Promote the public to believe that it is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and uneducated. A person can become famous by acting like an vulgar idiot or posting butt or nude shots. | Promote the public to believe that it is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and uneducated to generate a decline in the culture. A person can become famous by acting like an vulgar idiot or posting butt or nude shots online. Digressing further into mainstream idiocracy, when | ||
government is ruled by the unintelligent as the society's intelligence is rapidly declining, leading to poor governance and a lack of critical thinking as common features. | |||
9. Strengthen Self-blame and Depression | ==9. Strengthen Self-blame and Depression== | ||
To let individuals blame others for their misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts. So, instead of rebelling against the economic system, or wanting access to education or knowledge, the individual automatically validates their guilt and unworthiness, which creates depression. Depression has the effect to which inhibits any kind of outward action, and generates apathy. When there is no action, and people are apathetic, there is no revolution! | To let individuals blame others for their misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts. So, instead of rebelling against the economic system, or wanting access to education or knowledge, the individual automatically validates their guilt and unworthiness, which creates depression. Depression has the effect to which inhibits any kind of outward action, and generates apathy. When there is no action, and people are apathetic, there is no revolution! | ||
10. Getting to know the Individuals better than they know Themselves | ==10. Getting to know the Individuals better than they know Themselves== | ||
Over the past 50 years, advances of accelerated science and knowledge has generated a growing gap between public knowledge and those owned and operated by the dominant power elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the system has enjoyed a sophisticated understanding of what motivates human beings, both physically and psychologically, perfecting mind control techniques. The system has gotten better acquainted with the common man more than he knows himself. This means that, in most cases, the system exerts greater control and greater power over individuals, because the system has much more knowledge to manipulate others, they know the individual more than the individuals know about themselves. | Over the past 50 years, advances of accelerated science and knowledge has generated a growing gap between public knowledge and those owned and operated by the dominant power elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the system has enjoyed a sophisticated understanding of what motivates human beings, both physically and psychologically, perfecting mind control techniques. The system has gotten better acquainted with the common man more than he knows himself. This means that, in most cases, the system exerts greater control and greater power over individuals, because the system has much more knowledge to manipulate others, they know the individual more than the individuals know about themselves. | ||
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Be aware that the world of television and digital media has become a tool of de-evolution, [[Propaganda]] and social control. Nearly unlimited resources have been applied to understanding how to manipulate the human psyche through television and other forms of mass media. What we have today is an increasingly sophisticated full-spectrum assault on the free will and psychological well-being of all people, and we have come to a point where it is no longer even necessary for media institutions to attempt to hide their blatant work of manipulating public opinion, manufacturing consent, and creating winners and losers in the minds of the already mind controlled public. Whether for marketing or for manufacturing consent, the media industry is guilty of using subtle and not-so-subtle tactics to influence our conscious and subconscious minds to influence our opinions and behavior. There are countless examples of these practices; and discerning, awake people would be well served to be vigilant of this when consuming modern media in any form. As informed people, we must acknowledge that we are being lied to and that the institutions we should be able to depend on for bringing us an objective view of world, are anything but objective, they are paid sponsors of the [[Power Elite]] agendas. Thus, pay attention, develop strong discernment (develop your b.s. meter), and do your own research to stay awake and aware in these times of great turbulence and powerful change. | Be aware that the world of television and digital media has become a tool of de-evolution, [[Propaganda]] and social control. Nearly unlimited resources have been applied to understanding how to manipulate the human psyche through television and other forms of mass media. What we have today is an increasingly sophisticated full-spectrum assault on the free will and psychological well-being of all people, and we have come to a point where it is no longer even necessary for media institutions to attempt to hide their blatant work of manipulating public opinion, manufacturing consent, and creating winners and losers in the minds of the already mind controlled public. Whether for marketing or for manufacturing consent, the media industry is guilty of using subtle and not-so-subtle tactics to influence our conscious and subconscious minds to influence our opinions and behavior. There are countless examples of these practices; and discerning, awake people would be well served to be vigilant of this when consuming modern media in any form. As informed people, we must acknowledge that we are being lied to and that the institutions we should be able to depend on for bringing us an objective view of world, are anything but objective, they are paid sponsors of the [[Power Elite]] agendas. Thus, pay attention, develop strong discernment (develop your b.s. meter), and do your own research to stay awake and aware in these times of great turbulence and powerful change. | ||
We need the brave, courageous, empathic, trustworthy people dedicated to truth and love for life, to rise to fill the void of getting the humanitarian messages back into circulation. Pay close attention and do not feed into the insanity of the psychological operations made against the people, stay calm, neutral and carry on with speaking your truth, living from your heart, and never give up your purpose and mission.<ref>[http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/resource-tools/blog-timeline-shift/3062-media-manipulation Media Manipulation | We need the brave, courageous, empathic, trustworthy people dedicated to truth and love for life, to rise to fill the void of getting the humanitarian messages back into circulation. Pay close attention and do not feed into the insanity of the psychological operations made against the people, stay calm, neutral and carry on with speaking your truth, living from your heart, and never give up your purpose and mission.<ref>[http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/resource-tools/blog-timeline-shift/3062-media-manipulation Media Manipulation Blog]</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
[[Critical Thinking]] | |||
[[Media Literacy]] | |||
[[Social Engineering]] | |||
[[Psychological Operations]] | [[Psychological Operations]] | ||