At this point it's clear that virtually all corporate media is a lie and is not intended to inform. It's job is to enforce a narrative intended to drive behavior. The only real question is how long has this been going on? Seems like it's been since just after WW2 to me.
At this point it's clear that virtually all corporate media is a lie and is not intended to inform. It's job is to enforce a narrative intended to drive behavior. The only real question is how long has this been going on? Seems like it's been since just after WW2 to me.
I've gradually come to the conclusion that many people in PR are sociopaths. Their entire career is based on persuading people through deception to not act in their own best interests, but in that of their client's. Yet it's taught in universities as some sort of noble profession.
This has a long history but it really took off with Edward Bernays. He normalized lying and manipulating people to make a buck.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is publishing their every so many years update of their Red Book, a bible of infectious diseases and relied upon by pediatricians. They have new/updated chapters on Talking with Families and Patients About Vaccines.
I looked at my husband and said, yeah, I bet they do. More ways to manipulate and persuade the unwilling and newly awakened.
It is relentless. My heuristic is that whenever someone says I must do something for my own good, for the good of my family, or for society's good, then it's almost certainly a lie. It's actually for them to acquire wealth and/or power.
That's my starting position until proven otherwise, and it's been shown to be correct over and over. People acting in good faith don't attempt to manipulate other people's behavior through emotional guilt, which is exactly what this "for your own good" stuff is. People acting in good faith will present the issue rationally, and truthfully put forth the pros and cons in an unbiased fashion.
Instead these sociopaths always attempt to manipulate people's emotions. "How would you feel if your child died from a vaccine preventable disease?" while completely hiding the fact the risk of that is infinitesimally small. It works though as people don't think critically, and a rational risk assessment requires both an assessment of consequence *and likelihood*. Instead, these people scare people to death through an obsessive focus on consequence while ignoring, or flat out lying about, likelihood.
I have to tell you I'm getting to the point where people like Ben Shapiro (as example of someone who uses almost nothing but guilt-based manipulation persuasion techniques) genuinely look demonic to me, even if I happen to agree on an issue. It may sound grandiose, but it really seems as if God has lifted the scales from my eyes regarding the evil that dwells among us.
I admit that I have a history of being a person who (unknowingly and without intentional malintent) used such ways of persuasion because I was so convinced of a point of view. And, having been raised with those methods of persuasion, I also didn’t know of another way.
I’m embarrassed to admit that now. And grateful to be learning new ways of being in the world.
You are absolutely correct that those acting in good faith without self-interest are not going to use emotional guilt.
I completely understand and have done it myself. In looking back, one thing I noticed is I gradually started to feel a sense of uneasiness when doing it that became more and more powerful. It coincided with getting serious about my faith and studying the Bible. It's sanctification from the Holy Spirit as when I now see things I used to do, it it makes the skin crawl. I'm thankful for it as it's a powerful warning system.
Some people do it like breathing though, and short of finding Jesus I don't think they will ever stop.
Unfortunately, I know far too many Christians, who, like I used to be as well, have been trained to call their manipulation the Holy Spirit, and to call their Spirit-driven intuition the evil and humanistic desires of their hearts.
You know, you think you want the freedom to choose what you put on your face? That’s not Spirit-driven. That’s from your own selfishness about wanting your own comfort don’t you know you must love your neighbor well by accommodating their fears and their needs they are immunocompromised after all.
And yes I made that a run on sentence. And yes, we read that exact drivel, with better punctuation, in church emails during the first year and a half of The Chaos.
I have many Christian doctor friends who think that OF COURSE people should get jabbed and why wouldn’t you and you are a nut case to think otherwise.
So we must learn to reattune to actually hearing the voice of God, which as wise people have told me, is always kind and invitational. The only ones to whom he spoke harshly were the Pharisees. God does not manipulate. He actually gives people the freedom to choose.
And entire divisions of major law firms called "Government Relations," aka lobbying. When an acquaintance told me decades ago that's what she was working in, I nodded but had no idea what she was talking about, because my father was a normal attorney who just practiced law.
can't remember Edward Bernays or when he lived, but how about the early 1800's when all those potions, elixirs, tablets, etc were floooding the market especially in the cities? Any ailment, real or perceived, had an hundred "cures" most of which were neutral thus ineffecive, and many were downright harmful.. mercury compounds were common, and lethal in larger doses. Yt the general public, eager to "cure what ail's em" gobbled them up in bith senses of the word. I think it was P.T. Barnum declared "there's a sucker born every minute", and the bible declares they are soon parted with their money.
Madison Avenue have mererely taken those two truths and put a thin gloss of gentility and faux respect upon them, and made $Bns.
"I've gradually come to the conclusion that many people in PR are sociopaths. Their entire career is based on persuading people through deception to not act in their own best interests, but in that of their client's."
maybe since at least the War of Norhern Aggression? I've read considerable accounts of that "conflic" written by some of those who seceded.... Dabney, Jackson, etc.
Agreed, great job as usual from Jeff Childers.
At this point it's clear that virtually all corporate media is a lie and is not intended to inform. It's job is to enforce a narrative intended to drive behavior. The only real question is how long has this been going on? Seems like it's been since just after WW2 to me.
Also, PR firms are sometimes hired to craft this devious messaging, especially when it comes to government policy and political attacks.
I've gradually come to the conclusion that many people in PR are sociopaths. Their entire career is based on persuading people through deception to not act in their own best interests, but in that of their client's. Yet it's taught in universities as some sort of noble profession.
This has a long history but it really took off with Edward Bernays. He normalized lying and manipulating people to make a buck.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is publishing their every so many years update of their Red Book, a bible of infectious diseases and relied upon by pediatricians. They have new/updated chapters on Talking with Families and Patients About Vaccines.
I looked at my husband and said, yeah, I bet they do. More ways to manipulate and persuade the unwilling and newly awakened.
The propaganda is relentless.
It is relentless. My heuristic is that whenever someone says I must do something for my own good, for the good of my family, or for society's good, then it's almost certainly a lie. It's actually for them to acquire wealth and/or power.
That's my starting position until proven otherwise, and it's been shown to be correct over and over. People acting in good faith don't attempt to manipulate other people's behavior through emotional guilt, which is exactly what this "for your own good" stuff is. People acting in good faith will present the issue rationally, and truthfully put forth the pros and cons in an unbiased fashion.
Instead these sociopaths always attempt to manipulate people's emotions. "How would you feel if your child died from a vaccine preventable disease?" while completely hiding the fact the risk of that is infinitesimally small. It works though as people don't think critically, and a rational risk assessment requires both an assessment of consequence *and likelihood*. Instead, these people scare people to death through an obsessive focus on consequence while ignoring, or flat out lying about, likelihood.
I have to tell you I'm getting to the point where people like Ben Shapiro (as example of someone who uses almost nothing but guilt-based manipulation persuasion techniques) genuinely look demonic to me, even if I happen to agree on an issue. It may sound grandiose, but it really seems as if God has lifted the scales from my eyes regarding the evil that dwells among us.
That is a good heuristic to have.
I admit that I have a history of being a person who (unknowingly and without intentional malintent) used such ways of persuasion because I was so convinced of a point of view. And, having been raised with those methods of persuasion, I also didn’t know of another way.
I’m embarrassed to admit that now. And grateful to be learning new ways of being in the world.
You are absolutely correct that those acting in good faith without self-interest are not going to use emotional guilt.
I completely understand and have done it myself. In looking back, one thing I noticed is I gradually started to feel a sense of uneasiness when doing it that became more and more powerful. It coincided with getting serious about my faith and studying the Bible. It's sanctification from the Holy Spirit as when I now see things I used to do, it it makes the skin crawl. I'm thankful for it as it's a powerful warning system.
Some people do it like breathing though, and short of finding Jesus I don't think they will ever stop.
Unfortunately, I know far too many Christians, who, like I used to be as well, have been trained to call their manipulation the Holy Spirit, and to call their Spirit-driven intuition the evil and humanistic desires of their hearts.
You know, you think you want the freedom to choose what you put on your face? That’s not Spirit-driven. That’s from your own selfishness about wanting your own comfort don’t you know you must love your neighbor well by accommodating their fears and their needs they are immunocompromised after all.
And yes I made that a run on sentence. And yes, we read that exact drivel, with better punctuation, in church emails during the first year and a half of The Chaos.
I have many Christian doctor friends who think that OF COURSE people should get jabbed and why wouldn’t you and you are a nut case to think otherwise.
So we must learn to reattune to actually hearing the voice of God, which as wise people have told me, is always kind and invitational. The only ones to whom he spoke harshly were the Pharisees. God does not manipulate. He actually gives people the freedom to choose.
And entire divisions of major law firms called "Government Relations," aka lobbying. When an acquaintance told me decades ago that's what she was working in, I nodded but had no idea what she was talking about, because my father was a normal attorney who just practiced law.
can't remember Edward Bernays or when he lived, but how about the early 1800's when all those potions, elixirs, tablets, etc were floooding the market especially in the cities? Any ailment, real or perceived, had an hundred "cures" most of which were neutral thus ineffecive, and many were downright harmful.. mercury compounds were common, and lethal in larger doses. Yt the general public, eager to "cure what ail's em" gobbled them up in bith senses of the word. I think it was P.T. Barnum declared "there's a sucker born every minute", and the bible declares they are soon parted with their money.
Madison Avenue have mererely taken those two truths and put a thin gloss of gentility and faux respect upon them, and made $Bns.
100%!!!
There’s a name for that. Conmen.
"I've gradually come to the conclusion that many people in PR are sociopaths. Their entire career is based on persuading people through deception to not act in their own best interests, but in that of their client's."
Substitute Marketing for PR.
Isn’t that JUST LIKE China?? All
media is propaganda
The Medium is the Massage
Marshall McLuhan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage
I have a very different understanding of this now
Than I did when studying it in college/mid-'70s
Before WWII. J Edgar Hoover. He started it long ago. Read his biography.
maybe since at least the War of Norhern Aggression? I've read considerable accounts of that "conflic" written by some of those who seceded.... Dabney, Jackson, etc.
Started during the war. You can go back earlier to WW1 and dejure narrative control of US media under Wilson's Committee on Public Information.