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Ray's avatar

i preferred 1984 when it was fiction

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David Gosselin's avatar

There are definitely cracks in the facade.

In my interactions with people recently, whenever I see there is some leaning towards the idea that there must be some truth to the mainstream narratives (otherwise, how could they be true), I usually switch gears to discussing how cognitive dissonance and behavioral science actually work. You quickly find out that many people, even relatively good and smart folks, just aren't conversant in the basics of how psyops works.

Funny how the entire Western Five Eyes system is by-and-large run and organized around psyops, yet there's not one course or university curriculum that includes a serious discussion of how psyops shape modern political narratives. It's not that hard...

On the other hand, while a problem can't really be solved until we can put a name on it, once we do put a name on it, it becomes hard to unsee and ignore.

The Russiagate narrative is a perfect example of cognitive dissonance. From a Behavioral Science standpoint, it's understood that most people are "agreeable," they don't want any trouble. Simply "suggesting" that a certain story or set of facts could be associated with Russian "disinformation" is enough to spook many people. Much of the "Narrative Matrix" is a series of cognitive dissonances run in feedback loops on the MSM.

Just pointing out how cognitive dissonance works often changes the nature of the discussion, since people are faced with the question of considering how the beliefs in their head actually got there, rather than arguing any one given narrative.

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