YOU ARE not BRAINWASHED

in #persuasion7 years ago (edited)

it's true

You are obviously a person who is seen as enjoying logic and objectivity. You are seen as astute, clearly. You are a person who is seen as having a strong ability to push back against unwanted persuasion or influence.

Knowing this, I would not want to tell you to imagine that you could convince someone to pay out on a loosing lottery ticket. And I would not want to tell you to imagine that you had the power to persuade someone to steal a baby from a diner. And I would not want to tell you to imagine that you could influence someone to push an innocent man off building.

I would not want to tell you these things because once you realize how easy it is to persuade people to do whatever you want, you will understand that you can easily manipulate the environment around you to attain any advantage you need against the people around you.

You might want to watch this short video now.

What is it that helps you know whether you are acting of your own free will or being influenced by someone else?

This is an important question because influencers have been using increasingly complex and powerful methods to get you to do things via media saturation, subconscious persuasion, and sociological triggers since the 1920s, coming out of the closet in the work of Edward Bernays' Propoganda.

You don't have to believe me now, consider for a moment what it takes for Derren Brown, the man in the video above, to convince someone to believe that they should push an innocent man off of a building (I'll post the video of him doing this below -- read this article first because it's a long video). Its an expense of a few million dollars in acquiring the physical space, preparing the video and props, hiring the actors, keeping constant surveillance on set to micromanage, and organizing the staged event as a whole.

That's a lot of work, and it's very specific hypnotic persuasion on a micro scale, culminating in one person doing a very specific action.

Now imagine that a team of the best persuaders in the world with the resources of TRILLIONS of dollars at their disposal, the freedom to display any subtle message they desire over nearly any media source including popular music, television, movies, and news, and can read all of your emails, listen to all of your conversations, watch you on your cell phone or web cameras, and can plant any shill in any environment they want with the job of directing or misdirecting you to enhancing their agenda.

Do you suppose this isn't happening right now to everyone on the planet?

Another short clip from Derren Brown to drive the point home how easy this is to do. Check it out.

Did you recognize the pacing in the way he spoke, or the content of his words? Your conscious mind notices the pacing, but your subconscious recognizes the content. He starts by talking to the passenger about "how easily your train... of thought can become confused." Even though he's asking it as an innocuous conversation piece, and the pacing seems purposeless, all your subconscious mind hears is "my train of thought is easily confused."

He waves his hand in front of the passengers face, which chaotically redirects their attention and enforces their confusion.

And the most important part is when he asks:

What stop, thinking about it now, were you getting off at? What stop, thinking about it now, was it?

I know you are known to be an observant person, so you know this isn't just an innocent question, as it appears to be, because the way that the subconscious mind interprets this is:

what
stop thinking about it now
were you getting off at what
stop thinking about it now
was it

So, why is it that some people see it... and most people don't?

Well, perhaps that's because humans are not developed to see the objective world, but rather to construct a perception of reality that is worried only about survival and reproduction, not what is real. Not only do our tools of perception only recognize a small fraction of the frequencies that really exist around us all the time, but our processing of that data is totally biased based on our experiences.

According to cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman in this article:

While there clearly is a world separate from us, Hoffman says, evolution does not give us access to that. Instead, he claims, it's our interactions as conscious agents that give shape to the reality we experience. "I can take separate observers," he told Quanta Magazine, "put them together and create new observers, and keep doing this ad infinitum. It's conscious agents all the way down."

As yet an example of how personal interactions, not objective reality, shape our experience and behavior:

I don't know if the reality-as-presented is being controlled by anyone in particular -- t's my personal view that it is, based on anecdotal experience as well as data that I have been exposed to over the years (which I don't have the time to compile in this one article) that would suggest as much -- but it should be clear to anyone as smart as yourself that it would not be difficult to do.

You can judge for yourself, just take a moment, take a deep breath, and as yourself -- What is it that helps you know whether you are acting of your own free will or being influenced by someone else?

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Now, as promised, watch Derren Brown influence someone to kill an innocent man:

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