The reason subliminal messaging tactics are seldom discussed in mainstream or legacy media is not because the tactics are ineffective and rarely used, but because they are so effective that the advertising-supported media complex considers subliminal tactics critical to the function of the industry. Subliminal advertising is illegal, though the laws are both feeble and likely unenforceable, having been openly transgressed for the term of their existence and since the business model of advertising supported media depends on their nullity. The manipulation of individuals, identity groups and national populations after world war 2 was held critical to “national security;” subliminals are key to that manipulation.
Advertising and media content targeting viewer’s unconscious mind has been augmented by techniques like hypnotic induction, subsonic “whisper” acoustics and images which stimulate aggression, sexual arousal or instinctual response. The power of the exploits and the depth of their reach is greatly enhanced by the advent of networked media technologies VR and Mixed Reality technologies present an acute threat to consciousness because the ease with which control can be imposed over the totality of perceptual inputs in virtual environments will allow comprehensive control of human consciousness and over the future course of human development.
The presumed independence and competitive operation of entertainment and communications industry is illusory. The media may be considered as a single functionally integrated parasitic organism which includes the advertising industry.