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Jill Lepore on the link between WWII Psychological Warfare and Mass Communications

A lot of [psychologists] worked both in the study of voting behaviour in the US and in the study of propaganda in third-world countries trying to prevent them from becomming Communist.
Those things are closely related. They’re both the study of how you get inside someone’s head and change their mind? You have to know what they’re thinking, what you want them to think, and then you have to figure out what message will move them from what they’re thinking now to what you want them to think. This used to be called “psychological warfare”, and after the 2nd World War people were like, we shouldn’t call it that any more, we’ll call it “the study of mass communications”.

-- Jill Lepore, 2020

https://www.cityarts.net/event/jill-lepore-2/

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/178/a3550bf0-cb21-4ad6-b0f1-9cf1ec316a6f/CityArtsJillLepore200927a.mp3 (MP3)

Transcription by me, edited lightly for clarity / continuity.

#JillLepore #Simulmatics #SimulmaticsCorporation #Psywar #PsychologicalWarfare #MassCommunications #MassMedia #AdTech #Facebook #Google #SiliconValley #Privacy #Surveillance #Propaganda #Manipulation #Monopoly

if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now

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It continues with a tweet:

Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?

Zero. [1]

Gizmodo puts paid to that via the Parler data dump, containing photo and video conteent with geolocation and timestamp data putting members at the US Capitol:

The data, obtained by a computer hacker through legal means ahead of Parler’s shutdown on Monday, offers a bird’s eye view of its users swarming the Capitol grounds after receiving encouragement from President Trump — and during a violent breach that sent lawmakers and Capitol Hill visitors scrambling amid gunshots and calls for their death. GPS coordinates taken from 618 Parler videos analyzed by Gizmodo has already been sought after by FBI as part of a sweeping nationwide search for potential suspects, at least 20 of whom are already in custody.

https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-breached-deep-inside-u-s-capitol-building-1846042905/

So, yeah, at this point, Greenwald's simply making shit up. No apology or retraction either.

Sad, really.

Notes:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293

#reputation #coup #insurrection #sedition #Jan6Coup #uspol #parler #GoingFullRetard #GlennGreenwald

Tolerance is not a moral precept (2017)

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376?gi=4c30ad1493c9

#tolerance #PeaceTreaty #NotASuicidePact #ParadoxOfTolerance #morality #ethics #values #YonatanZunger

Somebody really needs to make a "Fear is the Mind Killer" COVID-19 face mask that actually looks like something the Fremen of #Dune would wear. Seriously, it's a missed opportunity, folks, and I would totally buy at least one. Any takers?

Robert Michels: Political Parties

... published in 1911 and first introducing the concept of iron law of oligarchy. It is considered one of the classics of social sciences, in particular sociology and political science. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Parties

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9A6922502CEF740CEBD8954CE05D5687

#RobertMichels #sociology #politicalScience #IronLawOfOligarch #power

Kim Stanley Robinson is feeling optimistic.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-coronavirus-and-our-future

<< Margaret Thatcher said that “there is no such thing as society,” and Ronald Reagan said that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These stupid slogans marked the turn away from the postwar period of reconstruction and underpin much of the bullshit of the past forty years.

We are individuals first, yes, just as bees are, but we exist in a larger social body. >>