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Anonymous ID: c9781d March 8, 2019, 4:09 p.m. No.5581341   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Information Poisoning is a catch all description for the cognitive impairment resulting from Information

Operations. Information Operations (IO)are the methods and tactics employed in advertising, in covert

social control systems and “unrestricted,” non-linear or Information War. Tactics employed in wartime

against enemy civilian populations are the same employed in peacetime to sell consumer goods.

Information War, Non-Linear War, or as the Chinese call it Unrestricted War, is a perpetual conflict

between nations and sovereign actors which employs every available means; economic, political,

technological, to defeat an opponent. PLA Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui noted in “Unrestricted

Warfare,” a study published in China in 1999: “As the arena of war has expanded, encompassing the

political, diplomatic cultural and psychological spheres, in addition to the land, sea, air space and

electronics spheres the interactions among all factors have made it difficult for the military sphere to

serve as the automatic dominant sphere in every war.’

In addition to overt content, news and entertainment contain implicit values, our unvoiced fears and

unspoken hopes for the future. The potency of tactics employed in IO has been amplified by

technological evolution which created enormous tightly networked populations and made increasing

amounts of personal data available permitting individuals and groups to be precisely targeted with

messaging engineered to exploit their belief systems.

As well as the psyops or Information Operations carried out by the nation state militaries and

intelligence agencies in undeclared conflicts, the public has had decades of exposure in peacetime to

unperceived influence technologies employed by the advertising industry. When psychology professor

Wilson Bryan Key documented the ubiquitous use of subliminal technologies in both advertising and

editorial media content back in the 1980s, the industry made a significant and sophisticated effort to

deny, distract and confuse the public about the issue. Advertising Age, the leading trade publication,

attacked Key in a frontpage article, labelling him a dirty-minded crank, obsessed with imaginary

obscenities in media content and trotting out a legion of paid experts to dispute, discredit and ultimately

dismiss the possibility subliminal embeds were ever widely used in advertising or could ever hope to be

effective.

Entertainment is not just entertainment, it is adult education, consumer conditioning and social

engineering. It is the principal mechanism employed by nation states to reliably influence social

behavior. The content of entertainment exerts significant, predictable effects on human behavior and

belief systems and over the course and direction of future scientific, economic and moral

evolution. Entertainment directs popular attention, lends support to or selectively subverts social

issues, fosters unity or division and incrementally enhances or gradually constricts collective cognitive

capacity.

Anonymous ID: c9781d March 8, 2019, 4:13 p.m. No.5581393   🗄️.is đź”—kun

The Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril was central to development of the science of propaganda:

 

Hadley Cantril was Nelson Rockefeller's roommate at Dartmouth in the 1920's and his 1935 doctorate was on "The Psychology of Radio".

 

Here's a quote from it:

 

“Radio is an altogether novel medium of communication, preeminent as a means of social control and epochal in its influence upon the mental horizons of men.”

 

Cantril joined Princeton in 1936 and became president of the "Institute for Propaganda Analysis" and founding editor in 1938 of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded "Public Opinion Quarterly" which was associated with the US government's psychological warfare efforts after World War II. He became chairman of the Princeton Psychology department. The Rockefeller Foundation gave him a $67K grant to form the "Princeton Radio Project".

The official story is that the October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" just happened to occur outside of Princeton and Cantril and associates took the opportunity to do an extensive study of people's responses and to write a book and do studies on the event. At the time, it

was the largest mass persuasion event in human history.

 

In 1940 Cantril wrote "The Invasion From Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic".

The Rockefeller Foundation was especially interested in manipulating public opinion during wartime. Their 1939 report said: “The war in Europe has given this country an unusual opportunity for studying

the development of public opinion, the changes which opinion undergoes

under varying conditions, and the reasons for change.”

 

and that the project:

 

"would supply essential facts on the formation and trend of opinion from peace to war time and from one stage to another under the force of successive war crises. It is expected that further analysis of the data will demonstrate the influence of such factors as family relationship, educational experience, and

occupation; the group origins of reported intensity of opinion or apparent lack of it on many issues"

 

They helped guide American public opinion as America joined World War II in 1941.

Rockefeller was moving their banking and oil interests into South America and were excited about using the new "soft power" of psychological operations to monitor and shape public opinion there. They funded Cantril and George Gallup to create "American Social Surveys" to assess public opinion in South

America. They did the same in the US. and Roosevelt used Cantril's findings to craft his speeches during the war. They also did projects with the Psychological Warfare Branch of Military Intelligence in North

Africa, the Department of State on US attitudes toward foreign affairs, and the Office of Strategic Services on German public opinion.

Over time, the Rockefellers especially but many other groups funded ever more sophisticated public opinion monitoring and manipulation techniques and used them for both business and politics.

 

The War of the Worlds (radio drama)

 

That event seems to now be understood on at least 5 levels and was related to the study of propaganda for business and to get the US into World War II:

  1. Dramatic Orson Welles radio show intended to move an audience

  2. Rockefeller funded Princeton study to see how influenced a population could be by an emotionally

powerful media

  1. The real manipulation was to test whether people would believe that others would believe the

performance was real and

become hysterical. Early investigation into shifting a population's beliefs about other people!

  1. Denial of the panic as "fake news" and a "naturally arising" myth

  2. Claim that newspaper stories created the myth because "radio was a threat to newspapers" and they wanted to discredit it.