“Embeds enhance perceptual experience of the picture, intensifying responses such as heart rate, brain rhythms and galvanic skin response. Emotionalized, repressed information remains in the memory system for a lifetime. In embedded pictures, nothing is actually hidden – certainly not by the artist.”
“Dr Charles Kamp of the Federal Communications Commission testified there is little doubt among scientists subliminal techniques are effective. “
“…curiously, Becker reported he was not at liberty to discuss Defense Department research on subliminal persuasion. “
Doctor Howard Shervin a University of Michigan psychologist and researcher “Shervrin compared the social consequences of subliminal persuasion to the discovery of nuclear weapons.”
“If you do not specify and confront real issue, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not alarm anyone morally, you yourself remain morally asleep. If you don
Despite the numerous web sites explaining why subliminal programing is not used by advertisers because it does not work, it is universally used by advertisers and film makers because it does ‘work.” A cursory scan of recent cognitive science literature produce multiple papers demonstrating the effectiveness of suggestion and priming on cognition.
Information War, Nonlinear War, or as the Chinese call it Unrestricted War, is a perpetual conflict between that employs every available means; economic, political, technological to defeat an opponent. This form of covert conflict is amplified by technological evolution which has created tightly networked populations who can be targeted with specially prepared information and manipulated as group or individually.
In addition to the common news supply, weaponized for ideological conflict, popular entertainment is used to manipulate belief systems. Entertainment is not just entertainment, it is adult education, 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. 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.
"Entertainment" is a general term. We might say “that which fascinates.” Entertainment can make us happier and better, or, in the hands of our enemies can be used to terrorize, confuse and divide us.
The power of entertainment to transform society is enormous. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a powerful emotional narrative that resulted in more humane treatment and eventual emancipation of the African slave population. We propose to use the same mechanism, dramatic entertainment, and the same platforms and technologies, to distribute a spectrum of entertainment to remediate the damage cause by decades adverse IO. In the short term to provide reliable information, offer reassurance and a hopeful vision of future