College student, studying bio, research job, fascinated with philosophy of science. Curious about unreason, quackery, stories of fakes and charlatans.
Quarter century passes. Now they stanning RFK Jr, drinking their raw milk, deep into "doing own research".
Full circle.
People can get sharper.
Then choose to intentionally blunt that edge.
Imagine a weapon that can do that to someone's mind.
Imagine a young doctor, fresh out of school, as an intern, he joins initial polio vaccine roll-out in late 1950s.
Get kids vaccinated. Brings an end to the iron lung wards. A hero.
But over a half century later, flips.
Votes for and donates to Trump, who installs RFK Jr., whose advisory panel guy, Kirk Milhoan, who says no more polio vaccine mandate. Sabotage.
Full circle.
People can learn.
Then unlearn.
Imagine a weapon that can do that to someone's mind.
Reflexive control is a hell of a weapon...
Getting a target to make incorrect assessments of reality and then to make incorrect decisions that lead to the attacker's advantage and the target's disadvantage.
Those targeted unknowingly do most of the work of their own destruction.
Liubov #Tsybulska - Negotiations and Ceasefires are Just Another Strategy of War for Moscow Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFO9uCuCGRI
#putin #fsb #activeMeasures #Disinformation #Misinformation #TrojanHorse #ReflexiveControl #propaganda
#ReflexiveControl is where an actor shapes the thoughts of an adversary, leading them to make decisions and take actions that result in harm to themselves, but benefit to the manipulative actor.
Someone at the higher levels of this art would study their adversary's traits in detail, to manipulate them.
Into their adversary's mind they would drive their own message and suppress all other ideas.
The confused and unaware would be ideal targets:
#ConcreteBlonde, "They don't know what they know."
I was thinking about the old #ConcreteBlonde song, "Jonestown", about the Jim Jones cult. Grim, I know.
"They don't know who to run to.
They don't know where to go.
Unless you tell them what to think,
They don't know what they know."
Then I was thinking about #ReflexiveControl.
You can know your own thoughts.
You could also know what an adversary is thinking.
You could know what an adversary is thinking about your thoughts.
Levels of reflection!
More levels, more advantage. Because...
#Authoritarianism. #ReflexiveControl.
Authoritarianism 101:
1. Co-opt the media.
2. Co-opt the religious institutions.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/new-combative-faith-group-host-catholic-prayer-trump-mar-lago
https://cforc.com/2024/03/historic-catholic-prayer-for-trump-mar-a-lago-3-19-24-full-event/
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/eucharistic-congress-cautioned-speaker
BTW these are the same guys who’ve been busy cooking the polls to make it seem like DJT has more support than he actually does.
"Catholics for Catholics" is a small nonprofit that has made a quick impact in Catholic political involvement. It's now set to take its combative vision of the faith to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
A bratty bully routine from childhood, was for the bully to grab a smaller kid's arm and whack the victim in the face with their own hand.
Gaslighting is when the bully shouts, laughing cruelly, "Why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!"
I was thinking, "Then what would Reflexive Control be?"
That would be when the bully arranges their victim's situation and perception, such that the victim really is hitting themself.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/denying-russia%E2%80%99s-only-strategy-success
Soviet mathematician Vladimir Lefebvre defined this process as “ #reflexivecontrol ”– a way of transmitting bases for decision making to an opponent so that they freely come to a pre-determined decision. A key example: Putin takes the false assertion that discussions of Ukraine’s NATO accession posed a clear and imminent danger to Russia; that Ukraine is not a real country and builds them into a false conclusion that he was justified in launching a war of conquest.
The notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin’s real strategy and only real hope of success. The Kremlin must get the United States to the sidelines, all
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