I leave this interesting text of this brave and brilliant researcher, one of the few free thinkers left. If you read carefully this analysis comprobaréis as has "predicted" what is happening today almost point by point. Leo
Chomsky for years and I can assure you is a breath of fresh air in these times of social manipulation. Noam Chomsky developed this list of "10 Strategies Manipulation through media. Read them carefully, I think they are a good "natural medicine" to immunize the mind of coercion and mediocrity.
CHOMSKY, 10 S STRATEGIES OF MANIPULATION
media manipulation strategies, social and economic .
1. The strategy of distraction.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is diverting public attention from important issues and changes determined by political and economic elites, by the technique of continuous deluge or flood of distractions and irrelevant information.
distraction strategy is also essential to keep the public interested in the essential knowledge in the area of \u200b\u200bscience, economics, psychology, neurobiology and
cybernetics. "Maintaining public attention diverted away from the real social problems, captivated by issues of no real importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think (quote text" Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars ")
2. Create problems and then offer solutions.
This method is also called "problem -> reaction -> solution."
a problem is created, a "situation" provided to cause a reaction in the audience, so this is the complainant of the action you want to accept. For example: let it unfold and intensify urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks, so that the public is the applicant's security laws and policies to the detriment of freedom.
Or: create an economic crisis to gain acceptance as a necessary evil retreat of social rights and the dismantling of public services.
3. The strategy of gradualism.
To make it accept an unacceptable degree, just apply it gradually, in dribs and drabs, for consecutive years. That is how they radically new socioeconomic conditions (neoliberalism) were imposed during the 1980 and 1990.
minimal state, privatization, job insecurity, job flexibility, mass unemployment, wages and do not guarantee a decent income. We dream, right?, Many changes have caused a revolution if they had been applied only once and not gradually as has been done.
4. different strategy.
Another way to accept an unpopular decision is to present it as "painful and necessary", gaining public acceptance at the time, for future application. It is easier to accept a future sacrifice a slaughter.
- First, because the effort is not used immediately.
- Second, because the public, mass, always has the tendency to expect naively that "it gets even better tomorrow" and that the sacrifice required may be avoided.
This gives citizens more time to get used to the idea of \u200b\u200bchange and accept it with resignation when the time comes.
5. Address the public as little child.
Most advertising uses for the general public discourse, argument, people and particularly children's intonation, often close to the weakness, as if the viewer were a little child or a mentally deficient.
harder one tries to seek to deceive the viewer, the more it tends to take a childish tone. Why? - "If you target a person as if she had 12 years or less, then, due to suggestibility, it will tend, with some probability, a child response or reaction and devoid of critical sense of an adult.
6. Using the more emotional than reflection.
Make use of the emotion is a classic technique to cause a short on rational analysis, and finally neutralize the critical sense of the individual.
Moreover, the use of emotional register opens the door to the unconscious or grafted to implement ideas, desires, fears and doubts, compulsions, or to induce certain behaviors.
7. Keep people in ignorance and mediocrity.
Making the public is incapable of understanding the technologies and methods used to control and enslavement.
"The quality of education given to the lower social classes must be the poor and mediocre as possible so that the distance between them and the upper classes remain unchanged over time and it is impossible to achieve genuine equality of opportunity for everyone. "
8. Encourage the public to be complacent with mediocrity.
Promote the public to believe that it is fashionable being vulgar and uneducated, poorly spoken, an admirer of people without any talent, to despise the intellectual, exaggerate the value of body worship and contempt for the spirit ...
9. Reinforce self-blame.
to convince the individual that he is guilty only of his own misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts.
So, instead of rebelling against the social and economic system, the individual evaluates himself, blame themselves, creating a depression, one of whose effects is to inhibit its action.
And without action, no reaction or revolution.
10. Individuals know best what they themselves known.
Over the past 50 years, rapid advances in science have generated a growing gap between public knowledge and knowledge possessed and used by the dominant éites.
Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the "system" has enjoyed a sophisticated understanding of human beings, both physically and psychologically. The "system" has gotten better known to the common person than he knows himself.
This means that, in most cases, the system exerts greater control and a great power over individuals, greater than that of individuals about themselves.
Noam Chomsky - Alternative Visions
