Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a linguist, philosopher, public figure, author of books and political analyst considered one of the most prominent thinkers of our time.
His books have been distributed all over the world. Especially popular is his list of ways to manipulate human consciousness used by the media and governments.
Read it and you will understand a lot:
1. Distraction
The main element of social management is to divert people's attention from important problems and decisions made by political and economic ruling circles by constantly saturating the information space with insignificant messages.
The distraction technique is essential in order to prevent citizens from gaining important knowledge in the field of modern philosophical movements, advanced science, economics, psychology, neurobiology and cybernetics.
Instead, the information space is filled with news of sports, show business, mysticism and other information components based on relict human instincts from erotica to hard pornography and from everyday soap stories to questionable ways of easy and quick profit.
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2. Problem - Reaction - Solution
A problem is being created, a kind of "situation" calculated to evoke a certain reaction among the population so that it itself demands the adoption of measures that are necessary for the ruling circles.
For example, allow urban violence to spiral or organize bloody attacks to get citizens to demand stronger security laws and policies that infringe on civil liberties.
Or cause some kind of economic, terrorist or man-made crisis in order to force people in their minds to take measures to eliminate its consequences, albeit in violation of their social rights, as a "necessary evil". But you need to understand that crises are not born by themselves.
3. Gradual
To achieve the adoption of any unpopular measure, it is enough to implement it gradually, day after day, year after year. It is in this way that fundamentally new socio-economic conditions (neoliberalism) were globally imposed in the 1980s and 1990s.
Minimizing the functions of the state, privatization, uncertainty, instability, massive unemployment, wages that no longer provide a decent life. If all this happened at the same time, it would surely lead to a revolution.
4. Postponement of execution
Another way to push through an unpopular decision is to present it as “painful and necessary” and to get citizens' consent at the moment to implement it in the future. It is much easier to agree to any sacrifice in the future than in the present.
First, because it won't happen immediately. Secondly, because the people in their mass are always inclined to cherish naive hopes that "tomorrow everything will change for the better" and that the sacrifices demanded of them will be avoided. This gives citizens more time to get used to the idea of change and humbly accept it when the time comes.
5. Infantilization of the people
Most propaganda speeches aimed at the general public use reasoning, characters, words, and intonation as if it were school-age children with developmental delays or mentally disabled individuals.
The more someone tries to mislead the listener, the more he tries to use infantile speech patterns. Why?
If someone addresses a person as if he were 12 years old, then due to suggestibility, the response or reaction of this person will also lack a critical assessment, which is typical for children.
6. Emphasis on emotions
Influencing emotions is a classic technique of neurolinguistic programming, aimed at blocking the ability of people to rational analysis, and as a result - in general to the ability to critically understand what is happening.
On the other hand, the use of the emotional factor allows you to open the door to the subconscious in order to introduce thoughts, desires, fears, fears, compulsions or stable patterns of behavior there. Spells about how cruel terrorism, how unfair the government, how the hungry and humiliated suffer, leave behind the scenes the true reasons for what is happening. Emotions are the enemy of logic.
7. Debilization of the population
An important strategy is to ensure that people become unable to understand the techniques and methods used to control them and bend them to their will.
The quality of education provided to the lower social classes should be as mediocre as possible so that the ignorance that separates the lower social classes from the upper classes remains at a level that the lower classes cannot overcome.
8. Promotion of fashion for mediocrity
The authorities strive to introduce the idea that it is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and ill-mannered. This method is inseparable from the previous one, since everything mediocre in the modern world appears in huge quantities in all social spheres - from religion and science to art and politics.
Scandals, yellow newspapers, witchcraft and magic, dubious humor and populist actions are all useful for achieving one goal: to prevent people from having the opportunity to expand their consciousness to the vast expanses of the real world.
9. Cultivating guilt feelings
Another task is to make a person believe that he alone is to blame for his own misfortunes, which occur due to the lack of his mental capabilities, abilities or efforts.
As a result, instead of rebelling against the economic system, a person begins to engage in self-deprecation, blaming himself for everything, which causes a depression, leading, among other things, to inaction.
10. Excellent knowledge of human nature
Over the past 50 years, advances in the development of science have led to the formation of a growing gap between the knowledge of ordinary people and the information that the ruling classes possess and use.
Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the system has at its disposal advanced knowledge about a person in the field of both physiology and psyche. The system has managed to learn more about an ordinary person than he knows about himself.
This means that in most cases the system has more power and more control over people than themselves.
Our task is to know these methods in order to easily identify and neutralize the harmful effects.
