Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on November 14, 2020, 08:25:48 PM
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This is apparently from 2018, but is making the rounds now. Sinclair Broadcasting affiliates all sound a little similar:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/11/14/this-is-extremely-dangerous-to-our-democracy-james-woods-tweets-video-showing-the-memo-has-gone-out/
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If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough it eventually becomes the truth.
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Both "sides" use the same techniques and once you learn to "see" it you cannot unsee it.
The level of persuasion techniques being used on the American/worldwide public is breathtaking.
It is everywhere everywhere.
Learning about the techniques will open your eyes.
You can see it if you want to, you are willing to acknowledge it, seeing it is easy.
There is in fact a worldwide propaganda industrial complex.
All communication contains elements of narrative control, defining of terms and persuasion to see things the persuaders way.
Examine all your presuppositions and make sure they are yours, not something you picked up through cultural osmosis.
The days of going through life in condition White are over now, now seeing things through condition Orange and Red is the rule of the day.
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Heinlein wrote about it in Methuselah's Children.
Semantics and loaded words. Ghetto instead of neighborhood, girl instead of woman.
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Both "sides" use the same techniques and once you learn to "see" it you cannot unsee it.
The level of persuasion techniques being used on the American/worldwide public is breathtaking.
It is everywhere everywhere.
Learning about the techniques will open your eyes.
You can see it if you want to, you are willing to acknowledge it, seeing it is easy.
There is in fact a worldwide propaganda industrial complex.
All communication contains elements of narrative control, defining of terms and persuasion to see things the persuaders way.
Examine all your presuppositions and make sure they are yours, not something you picked up through cultural osmosis.
The days of going through life in condition White are over now, now seeing things through condition Orange and Red is the rule of the day.
It can be a depressing realization for some.