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-Psyops create urgency to conform in mass
Akin to a viral social media challenge (memetic evolution).
- There is always a diverse social and or political agenda behind it
- Check the message,
the timing, deconstruct the agenda, what is behind the smoke screen?
- There is a sea of information on the internet to navigate, but limited tools to discern the facts from fallacy or understand the psychological warfare being conducted on the human population.
- Social media is another form of media consumed that is full of misinformation and psyops.
- Media is part of the problem but this is how social media has become “centralised”. So to speak.
- Remember the internet was initially created to become a weapon by the Department of Defence.
- The art and skill of critical thinking involves deconstructing perspectives, beliefs, narratives, archetypes in the stories, characters in the narrative and the timing of the message.
- There is the use of framing information from multiple angles, and researching information in a way to gather data that is collaborative.
- This might contrast with your emotive “belief” about the narrative being portrayed but is key to becoming a better critical thinker.
-Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and hypnosis are also key tools utilised in psyops.
-I highly recommend doing at least an introduction course to begin to understand the fundamental tools utilised in psychological warfare.
-When psyops are carried out, they hijack our amygdala, the fear-based part of our brain.
-Which means we cannot activate the prefrontal cortex.
-This means our critical thinking is repressed.
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A step to begin to think critically is to begin to understand logical fallacies:
1. Appeal to emotion
- relies heavily on emotive language that activates responses inciting fear, anger, hate or hope to bypass LOGIC
2. Strawman's argument
- misrepresentation of someone's argument to attack it better
3. Bandwagon fallacy
- claiming something to be true because the majority agree
- i.e these people are doing x THEN it must be x that is the right method
4. False dilemma
- presenting ONLY two extreme options and ignoring alternative options
- the Hegelian dialectic
- the us vs them and with us or against us
- the gender or race divide is commonly used
- In lockdowns, it was the masked or the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated
5. Ad hominem
- attacking the PERSON, not the argument, attacking a perceived opponent because of some real or perceived characteristic
- this is all over this platform and the internet in general
- this might be juxtaposed but this is the biggest red flag that a person cannot think critically and regulate their own emotions & lacks insight into their cognitive distortions
6. Appeal to “authority”.
- claim things to be true because “authority figure said it to be so
- Insisting that a claim is true simply because an alleged authority or “expert” on the issue said it was true, without any other supporting evidence offered
- Antidote:
- become your researcher and collaborate on your own qualitative and quantitative data
-aim: form your hypothesis, conduct your micro experiments, collect your data, & research the world although everything in your life as you experience it is an experiment
-result: learning to think for yourself
7. the slippery slope
- ONE ACTION WILL LEAD TO AN EXTREME NEGATIVE OUTCOME
- These negative consequences are often bad and/or increasingly outlandish.
- The person using the slippery slope fallacy takes these consequences as a certainty and does not reflect or analyse the “logic” behind their position.
- A slippery slope fallacy may be used to deflect & avoid the merits of a position & shift the field of discussions/debate
- The slippery slope fallacy is used in conjunction with fear (irrationally).
8. Hasty generalisations
- no statistics, the argument is a generalised, faulty generalisation, hasty induction, insufficient sample, lonely facts fallacy, overgenality, overgenality, unrepresentative sample size.
- making a broad assumption based on one example
- broad claims made with limited quantitative data or evidence
- Drawing conclusions based on limited sample sizes can lead to misleading results.
- It is advisable to consider comprehensive statistical data that more accurately reflect typical or average scenarios.
9. Red herring
- The origin of “red herring” originates from a procedure of utilising strong-smelling cured herring to divert hunting dogs from the smell of their target.
- How to spot a RED HERRING:
- Be wary of topic changes that appear unrelated to the original conversation.
- If someone introduces a completely different subject out of nowhere, it may be a red herring
- Also, pay attention to whether the novel topic is created to elicit an emotional reaction rather than addressing the logical factors of the original argument.
- Red herrings count on emotional manipulation to divert attention
Check for
- The deliberate diversion of attention to try to abandon the original argument
- Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond
- False equivalents
- claiming two sides as equal when they aren’t truly equal
- insert thing, event, etc. here] has characteristics a, b, and c.
- Another [insert thing, event, etc. here] has characteristics b and e.
- Therefore, since both share a characteristic b, they are equivalent.
- Apples and oranges are both fruits, and they are both round, therefore they must both taste the same.
- Just because they are both round fruits doesn't mean they taste the same.
- This is across the board, social political and economic.
- This is a childs logic, taught in primary education. By puberty, you should be beginning to have a grasp on the methods of discernment.
- If not by high school.
- If not in adulthood, there is still time.
- I am still, as an adult, shocked the majority of the internet cannot discern the mostly simplistic critical thinking skills
- This is not hard to master
- But it is possible to rewire your neural pathways into having a more refined critical thinking
- This will help you be armed against the false sea of psychological warfare, no only perpetuated by the mainstream media, but protect you from the false media propagated on social media platforms, alternative media is also rife with this now.
- It will help arm yoursf against narcissists, antisocial personality disorder predators and cult leaders who prowl through the internet seeking vulnerable “prey”.
- Do not for agents of psychological warfare who are just vectors of the psyops who operate in subsets of the internet to divert and divide (limited hangouts, shills and apply the entire psyops method to a single person who is conducting their own “psyops” recruiting people to build a cult with the same modalities and methods.
- Protect you from online scams, narcissist and psychopaths
- Knowledge here will give you discernment to minimise brain hijaking that modifies your perception from via media, social media and individuals using these mediums for psychological operations
- It will give you a skillset CRITICAL THINKING (that is a lost and dying art/skill).
- TRAIN YOUR CRITICAL THINKING FACULTIES
- DONT BE LEAD BY EMOTIONS
- CHECK THE FACTS
- DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH
- THINK FOR YOURSELF
- The new war isn't guns and weapons like 100 years ago, its a war of the mind. #
