When confronted by an enemy, it is imperative to know them. And the more powerful this enemy is, the more urgent it is to be able to gauge their character – their strengths, their weaknesses, and most importantly, their psychological disposition.
If I cannot attempt to physically force or coerce, or covertly manipulate people into accepting my ideas, or trying to create the society that I envision, then the mechanism for change needs to be through inspiration.
Our identity is such a merely theoretical construct that it is subject to endless reengineering and constant updating. Descartes got it upside-down. Bodies are obstinate and resistant. It is souls that are the playthings of those who conspire against us.
Anger: What is its role? How do we interpret it? How do we wield and transform it? These are questions that may be key to understanding how to engage with those around us as we attempt to restore our world.
Our elites remind how one false step, like the use of a politically incorrect term or an unusually piercing critique of something they have ensconced as sacred, might land us in the realm of the destitute.
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The objective of this work is to inform the general public of the PsyWar methods and technologies that are being deployed so that individual citizens are more able to resist the effects of these forms of psychological manipulation.
The natural sciences have a significant destabilising effect on culture and society. This was noted by social thinker and futurologist Alvin Toffler decades ago regarding the disruptive consequences of the constant and rapid stream of novel discoveries and inventions.
Please don’t think that, to be good, you need to be quiet and agreeable and complacent. And please don’t think that any of this will be easy. But it will be preferable to the personal destruction and social division created by festering, unacknowledged anger.
A number of peer-reviewed papers have come to light, exposing just how pervasive and damaging the use of nudges was during Covid-19. They also reveal how nudging is being used to control individuals and populations on matters such as health.
I am convinced that the uncritical use of an electronic apparatus like a smartphone is an important factor in this lack of concern, which equals an implicit denial of possible catastrophe.
Despite their wealth, they lack the capacity for simple enjoyment, and consequently, their envy for the rest of us knows no bounds. After all, we continue meeting under festive circumstances, chatting, laughing, dancing, singing, and drinking wine.
My recently published research leads to a startling conclusion: in every sphere of daily life, our thoughts and actions are being psychologically manipulated so as to align them with what the state’s technocrats deem to be in our best interests.
