I TOLD You! Podcast S-1 / E-7! Information Operations campaigns cause Cognitive Dissidence. This is how propagandists brainwash good people to commit atrocities.
Today’s topic
The Information Operations campaigns, also known as “IO” campaigns are designed to exploit your feelings. Think about it this way, when you read a textbook, although it will be informative – and even interesting, it will have a very different vibe and personal connection than if you are watching something with a story. For example, a novel, a movie, a sitcom, or a bingeworthy TV show. The story is what awakens those unconscious visceral responses. Advertisers do that all the time to create brand loyalty. Propagandists use similar tactics, but the latter do so to control you – often while keeping you “entertained.”
And when you fall in love with this story, because it REFLECTS YOU in some shape or form, it becomes a very powerful catalyst. That is why people who fall victims of a certain narrative become very stubborn when challenged on whatever is it that they are enticed to “adore.” Being a cult, being a swindle, being a con, being a bamboozle, being a religion, or a group they fancy, etc. It does not matter, good or bad – when your feelings get involved and exploited, your rationality is the first thing exiting the premises. Sometimes explosively.
Deprogramming people who fall into this can range from extremely hard to extremely difficult (never easy). But in reality, the way to get you out is the same way you came in. I know it sounds counterintuitive. But that is how you snap out of whatever way you get your head wedge up you’re as. You cannot get your head off your a*s through your mouth, you have to unwedge it via your own a*s. It is also a shorter route.
This episode will be about introspection, and for some it will hurt you like a b*tch. That’s good, that is the healing feeling of getting you’re as torn up as your head gets out of it. You’ll thank me later. Like you are bitching and moaning in stupor when you figure out you were a naïve individual, millions had to experience this pain before, and if you learn the lesson – any other swindle will become very evident miles away. Just know that you’ll have to experience the stages of grief. It will suck, but you’ll get to the other side. Only YOU can make that decision to unwedge your head off your own a*s.
I’ve helped many people before, hope this helps you too, or you can share it with somebody who needs to hear this. Or use these techniques yourself to help them get their head off their a*s.
Snowflake Trigger Warning Note:
This episode might make you cry for yourself, or for a loved one. We all know somebody who is stubborn as sh*t and moving fast on a self-destructing path (like most of America right now). Not only based on political, or religious exploitation – but those are surely very powerful catalysts. This episode will not only hurt your feelings, but it will put all your demons in front of you – front and center. If you’re not ready to face them head on, they will keep haunting you forever, making you their b*tch, while wedging your head further down your own as. I’m the friend you needed to help you get your head off your as.
I TOLD You! The Information Operations (IO) campaigns are complex. The White House, the mainstream media, and most independent media talking heads addressing politics fail to understand how they are victims of these IO campaigns. They are not controlling the narrative; they are being reactive. Yes, even those with millions of followers. Every adversary needs a “foe” – and they will throw some bones and “clues” for these otherwise well-intentioned people to pick up along the way. They are part of the narrative – they become pawns in that game.
This episode is available here:
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We’ll be posting the links on our Half Life Crisis and Info in Context social media platforms. This podcast is about education and introspection. American exceptionalism is very exploitable when Americans remain naïve and become victims of their own grandiosity. I’ve said it before, and I keep repeating it for a reason. A trap is designed to snare you with ease. And it snared most of America and the West, and people inside that trap are very “happy” living there – not understanding they are about to become somebody’s dinner… like a free-range chicken. HLC