The entire objective of information war is persuasion. By supplying curate news / information IO is able to induce us to voluntarily act against our own interests. To slaughter our neighbors over supposed acts of belief. To destroy our own nations in the belief we are '''protecting ourselves" from threat of disease, or fanatical enemies
This is how information war works. By controlling what we see and where and when we see and hear it, they induce us to join or oppose phony political movements.
Control of the information supply, the news and entertainment media, allows for the establishment and support of cult here, for the maintenance and perpetuation of cult myths "Oswald shot JFK. Osama Bin Laden destroyed the World Trade Centers"
Control of the information supply allows the cult to change the calendar, emphasizing certain festivals or commemorating certain events and abolishing others. Information war overlaps with calendrical war (tactics) where the was a society measures hours days and months. By altering the calendar a different field of influences - not positive ones - can be brought to bear on a civilization.
Can you think of any events we know know to be engineered assassinations or terrorist attacks that changed our calendar?
If we look back in history do we find other changes that produced significant social effects?
Why was the musical scale changed? How did this effect eight parts of sacred Motets?