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May 9, 2022Liked by Mark Changizi

What little NARC pieces of turd. The writing was on the wall in 2015 with those students at Yale screaming about Halloween costumes oppressing them.

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IN the second graph there isn't a big range in the STRONGLY SUPORT group across all age groups. It is in the STRONGLY OPPOSE followed by SOMEWHAT SUPPORT that we see the largest difference in Age. So where as STRONGLY AGAINST goes up as Age increases STRONGLY SUPPORT does not equal increase as Age goes down.

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How depressing! Although I suspect this is an American thing as here in the UK the youth appear to have mostly stopped masking. My American niece (18 years old) recently told her grandmother that she is scared all the time of everything. The wearing of a mask would fit into that fear. The damage that has been done to young people will never be fixed - they are damaged for life now. Even the UK youth who have discarded their masks are nervous of life and would undoubtedly put them back on if they were told to. The future looks bleak.

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Brilliant legal and philosophical minds foresaw the collective mind of the young today as a result of the societal trends towards accepting, desiring authoritarianism. And analysts understanding mindsets prevalent in other cultures, collectivist cultures describe the same child-like understanding of the world that enables authoritarianism.

From obituary for Dr. Walter Berns in the Washington Post, January, 2015:

https://archive.ph/5lgZM

"Much of his work, the legal scholar Jeremy A. Rabkin wrote in an overview of Dr. Berns’s career, “reflects the classical view that democracy depends on the character of the citizens, so their opinions and beliefs, their personal habits and degree of self-discipline — in a word, their virtues — will matter to the prospects of democratic government.”

Dr. Berns argued against unbounded individual rights and for restrictions on pornography, which he believed eroded self-restraint.

“Those who are without shame,” he remarked, “will be unruly and unrulable; having lost the ability to restrain themselves by obeying the rules they collectively give themselves, they will have to be ruled by others.”

From recent ZeroHedge column on the Shanghai Lockdowns, analysis of the Chinese child-like Mind:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whole-planet-pot-and-were-all-frogs

There is something that most foreign analyst do not grasp: the Chinese Mind (the "collective subconscious" if you wish.)

The Chinese Mind likes to be seen in the Struggle doing things to fight in the Struggle (no matter what the Struggle is, whether those actions give tangible results or not, at least they make great photo ops for the media.)

The Chinese Mind is hive-like, it's blindly obedient, and it lashes out at the "Enemy" (whether real or imaginary)

The Chinese Mind is a bit childish, it is for sure stubborn, and non-rational/logical (non-Cartesian)

The Chinese Mind is constantly under ideological propaganda, everywhere, every time, from childhood til death, from home to the workspace...

The Chinese Mind is never guilty, it always blames the Other (and the object of the blame is constantly shifting)

The Chinese Mind hates losing face (what face, nobody knows) and hates being criticized (just shut up and put it under the carpet)

Remember the famines? One day they wake up and decide to kill all the birds (that were eating bugs that were eating crops...)"

It's how you prepare the battlespace for the war of ideas, ideas of the type of governance humanity will live under in the (near) future. Today, here, now. Yesterday, in fact. Not futuristic sci-fi.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277743265_Winning_the_Soft_War_The_Employment_of_Tactical_PSYOP_Teams_in_Combat_Operations

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/changing-hearts-and-brains-sof-must-prepare-now-neurowarfare

https://gangstalkingmindcontrolcults.com/psyop-as-a-fundamental-component-of-organized-stalking/

Not a conspiracy when our DoD tells us they are doing it:

US Army Recruitment Video:

Ghosts in the Machine,

May 2, 2022

https://youtu.be/VA4e0NqyYMw

USAF Communication Blog:

The 6th Warfighting Domain

November 5, 2019

by Lauren Elkins, USAF Information Operations Officer, 390th Cyberspace Operations Squadron.

(https://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/862058/390-cyberspace-operations-squadron-acc/)

“As such, 21st-century warfare seeks to virtually impose perceptions as opposed to the physically imposed will of the past. Victory is no longer achievable in decisive, physical conflict. Unseen victory, achieved in the human domain, is the new victory. This paradigm shift in warfare is a novel implementation of Sun Tzu’s principle where the acme of skill is to defeat the adversary without ever physically fighting. This is the future of war: the imposition of perceptions to achieve unseen victory.”

“US Air Force Information Operations Officers (IO’s) have the requisite background and training to contest the cognitive space and compel desired behaviors. All officers must have a psychology-related undergraduate or master’s degrees for career field consideration. The initial IO corps trained at the US Army Psychological Operations Qualification Course and completed several other related trainings such as operations security, signature management, and operational military deception. The integral trainings piece together the requisite understanding of how to operate within the human domain. Each course strives to affect perceived information and ultimately affect DM and behavior. The US Air Force and DoD has an opportunity to capitalize on the unique and critical skills of Information Operations Officer. If they are properly integrated into all staffs, planning teams, and government agencies, the US can better navigate through great power competition with Russia and China.?"

And not limited to foreign adversaries. Americans now officially declared by the DOJ as domestic enemies for political opposition to authoritarianism. Under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act passed in 2013 removing prohibitions on domestic propaganda put in place post-WWII after learning the dangerous lessons of a Goebbels' application of propaganda as behavioral science on a domestic population.

And don’t think for a second that PsyOps isn’t being deployed against the American people, that it’s only being targeted at foreign hostiles and adversaries. Remember, they legalized its use targeted at domestic populations, US!!

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

Precisely how consent to authoritarianism is manufactured in a population, as Noam Chomsky (and Edward Bernays) described decades ago:

https://chomsky.info/19890315/

How consent to "Owning nothing and being happy" and "Eating less meat and more bugs" will be manufactured - UN Agenda 2030/WEF Great Reset Behavioral Science plan:

https://www.undp.org/publications/behavioural-insights-united-nations-achieving-agenda-2030

Whitney Houston sang, "I believe the children are our future" in her song The Greatest Love. Their minds have been prepared for this battlespace of this Information War for the future of humanity. It's why the children are still being force masked in many schools, force masked for too long, force masked at all during the pandemic. First ostensibly, "to save grandma" even though they weren't at risk. Now to save them and their teachers from impossible to calculate low risk of severe infection or death from CV. Crate training puppies, as Adam Corolla described. Preparing the battlespace. For a global authoritarian future for humanity. Renamed "freedom."

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The Backfire Effect and How to Change Minds

April 14, 2015

by Christopher Graves

https://instituteforpr.org/part-two-backfire-effect-change-minds/

"Changing someone’s mind, persuading them to rethink their position, can feel nearly impossible. While ubiquity of information should provide enough public domain evidence to solve every argument, the opposite has happened; facts polarize people rather than bring them together in a moment of epiphany. The English philosopher Francis Bacon articulated this four centuries ago, writing:

“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects; in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.”

In 1979, professor of psychology and author Charles G. Lord sought answers[1] as to whether we might overcome the Bacon principle, or whether humans are always held hostage to their initial beliefs even in the face of compelling and contradictory evidence. After identifying two groups of respondents into their respective beliefs as to whether capital punishment is an effective deterrent to crime, he then supplied each group with a summary of research showing either that capital punish is or is not effective. That was followed by a more robust, scientifically sound piece of research that supported the summary. Then, he exposed each group to different research with opposite findings. Rather than softening their initial beliefs when evidence challenged them, each group discounted the research that did not align with their pre-existing beliefs, saying it was not as sound as the research that agreed with them. Scientists call this phenomenon “confirmation bias.” Lord and his co-researchers determined that objective evidence “will frequently fuel rather than calm the fires of debate.”"

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A 2009 research study titled, "Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear." A healthy society requires faces be seen. Not just eyes. Full facial expressions are an essential form of human communication and stabilizes society. And perhaps most importantly, human aggression is moderated by full faces.

In the study they refer to masked faces. Not in terms of an actual facial covering, but in terms of unnatural neutral faces that intentionally don't communicate any emotion in situations when facial expressions are customary and expected.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x

Masks terrorize no differently than seeing snakes all around us all day, every day. Just reflect back to 2019 when if you saw a mask on someone in public you reacted with apprehension, perhaps fear in the environment, like in a bank or on a plane. Terrorists wore masks not just to hide their identity, but to terrorize. It takes constant higher reasoning reminders to self to push through the fear and anxiety masked faces creates just as surely as if surrounded by snakes all the time, even at an subconscious level. Follow the science. Straight to Behavioral Science. Fear amplification. Chosen as pandemic NPI by epidemiologists, extensively trained in behaviorial science techniques to modify human behavior during a pandemic. Scare people sufficiently to have them avoid others, normalize anti-social behaviors, even making it preferential, virtuous.

Flipping the script of a healthy society. As recently as 2019, less than three years ago, masks were *banned* outright on public transportation. For good reasons upheld by international courts. These rational and legal justifications for banning masks were true in 2019, as understood by sociologists. Has human psychology and civil social structure been evolved to a higher state of being in two years that negates prior social science and psychology findings?

2014

"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".

The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...

...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.

Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011 and which was party to the French defence, declared both the burqa and niqab "incompatible" with the rule of law.

Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."

The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court

2019

"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,”also known as the “Burqa Ban,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2019-08-27/netherlands-burqa-ban-enters-into-force/

Until facial coverings are banned outright the manipulated and coerced psychosis that has taken hold of our society will remain. Faces are necessary, are a requirement for public life, for civil society. As the study on faces and snakes, fear evolution shows. The same basis that international courts found true just before Covid still applies. It never stopped applying.

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Some of them quite literally believe they look “better” with a mask on and want to keep that little piece of security blanket. It’s just one other reason that age group likes it as it might improve their status or at least blunt rejection.

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Hmmm... maybe it's their immaturity and lack of experience. Not to mention poor schooling (i.e., successful indoctrination) and their unreasonable/illogical fear of death.

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Mission accomplished, I guess. Too bad they couldn’t be manipulated into emptying the dishwasher in a timely and orderly fashion, and mow the lawn without constant badgering.

https://youtu.be/SMGz3sXRhvE

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