The Noble Lie

This is another great Adam Curtis documentary. This documentary covers how “spreading freedom and democracy” has been used as a pretext to spread war and oppression across the globe. It touches on the Rand Corporation, Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and how Cold War policy was shaped by these models of motivation and self interest. During and after the cold war, these techniques were let loose on the public.

It is telling that the one person most credited for developing this widely-accepted model of human behavior was a paranoid schizophrenic.

Part 1 of 3 - Fuck you Buddy

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“This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.” - Adam Curtis

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If you’re going to fight the Beast in any kind of facilitated meeting settings, learn these tricks. They will be used on you, and that includes at your workplace, at your town hall, and on up the ladder.

It was originally created by the Rand corporation as a process to forge consensus. I think what these sites call the “Delphi Technique” has begun to expand into a whole category of deceptive practices used in meetings, but I’m sure that the original Rand Delphi Method was heavily influenced by some of these dirty tricks.

• The Delphi Technique, what is it?
• Using the Delphi Technique to achieve consensus
• Delphi Method [Wikipedia]
• How to disrupt the Delphi Technique

I’ve noticed part of the facilitated mass meeting process is that most discussion is done by breaking up into separate small groups. Those groups are made to forge a consensus which one spokesperson will speak. The facilitators go from group to group, profiling people, occasionally shooting down an opinion in the small group setting.

To boil down the trick to fighting back against the Delphi technique, you must not allow yourself to be incited or pigeonholed by the facilitator, you must remain calm but also focused, not letting them divert or talk their way around your questions. They will try to make you the bully, so the group will turn against you. Unless they are really good, they will eventually become the bully they tried to make you out to be, because they must defeat or divert the dissent in one way or another.

I admit when I’m full of it. In an earlier post, I claimed that Fox ran “Mark Foley - D” on their scrolling ticker tape. I was wrong and I admit it.

They actually put it in big letters right on the screen.

This isn’t technically “subliminal,” but…. some are subtle, some aren’t.

More behind the cut.

Ann Coulter on Mark Foley

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With that very short primer on subliminals out of the way, I’m going to start using examples on the site. Now I’m no fan of Al Gore, but I know a dirty trick when I see it.

Watch for the flash of the word RATS when they mention Al Gore’s plan….

(Or subliminibuble if you ask our President)

Do you watch any of the 24 hour news networks? It’s been a while for me but there is one feature of the broadcast I really remember, which I think started with FOX but has been widely mimiced at this point.. it is the scrolling “ticker tape” of news along the top and the bottom of the screen. The more I learn about the unconscious and subliminal techniques, the more I think about those ticker tapes.. especially since they tend to have the highest number of FACTUAL ERRORS. The most egregious one I remember people screaming about is when they labeled Mark Foley a Democrat again and again after his pederastery was brought out into the open.

What propagandists, psychologists, and public relations people understand, that most of us “normals” don’t, is that many people’s actions are driven by the unconscious mind, the part of their brain that does not use logic, deduction, analysis of facts or comparison to reality to make decisions. The unconscious mind is important because it regulates our body and it can “bubble up” to our conscious mind as the source of emotion, creativity, inspiration, and spirituality, all very human traits which we can consciously act on. However, it is also hijacked easily by people who understand how it ticks.

The whole point of the news ticker is for you not to read it. Like a jackhammer, it will repeat the same messages over and over, which your conscious mind will not engage but your unconscious mind will pick up on. Since you aren’t paying attention, and since repetition works repetition works, you will not even critically engage the content of the message and it will bypass all your logic filters and deposit straight into your subconscious. However, you WILL be affected by it as it “bubbles up” into your conscious thoughts and decisions. It becomes part of your world.

This is why Hitler famously gave all his important speeches in the evening, when people had been working all day and were tired and worn down. It is the whole idea of subliminal advertising where images are flashed too quickly for your conscious mind to register. It is also why so much social programming takes the form of fiction — we think of it as entertainment and don’t critically engage the content, even though it may influence us.

Interesting side note, the words subliminal and sublime come from the same roots. Makes you wonder if advertising has picked up where the priests of old left off, coding “morality” into people.

From etymology.com:

subliminal
1886, “below the threshold” (of consciousness), formed from sub “below” + L. limen (gen. liminis) “threshold.” Apparently a loan-translation of Ger. unter der Schwelle (des Bewusstseins) “beneath the threshold (of consciousness),” from Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841), author of a textbook on psychology published in 1824. The scare over subliminal advertising came in 1957.

sublime
1586, “expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner,” from M.Fr. sublime, from L. sublimis “uplifted, high, lofty,” possibly originally “sloping up to the lintel,” from sub “up to” + limen “lintel.” The sublime “the sublime part of anything” is from 1679. Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, is from Fr. la Sublime Porte, lit. “the high gate,” a loan-translation of Arabic Bab ‘Ali, title of the Ottoman court at Constantinople (cf. mikado).

I stumbled on this movie during my study of psychopathy, and it is this angle of the movie that interests me the most. There are people who are naturally psychopathic, that is to say, they lack the “moral compass” to make choices pertaining to right and wrong. It is also a hereditary quality that can be bred for, which is why arranged marriages are the rule among the noble orders. It is truly wrong to say the psychopath is just evil and selfish. They lack an essential component of that which most of us would point to as the core of our humanity. They have intelligence, but they lack any sense of compassion.

While some are born naturally psychopathic, otherwise “normal” people can be trained by their society to behave in a psychopathic way. That is what interests me the most about this movie. The key benefit of this for controllers is predictability - you can count on the direction that unfettered self-interest will take - and you can direct it, too.

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This is a lecture given by a powerful member of an elite family to an elite university (UC Berkeley). Describes the ultimate dictatorship powers available to the ruling class today thanks to technology, psychology, and a physiological understanding of the human brain. Reveals that the majority of people are very suggestible via simple hypnosis techniques, and gives some examples. A fascinating glimpse into the world of the elite.

Remember “ultimate” means “last.” The technotronic revolution is meant to be the final revolution, after which revolution will no longer be possible because our brains will not be capable of forming such concepts as resistance or revolution.