Brainwashing TACTICS OF COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY
Our reality is carefully built by powerful corporate and political sources in order to influence public opinion covertly.
Constantly they are televised all kinds of blatant lies regarding terrorism, food, war, health, etc. created to condition the minds of viewers and destructive force them to accept social norms.
The practice of manipulation and control of public opinion with distorted media messages has become so common that an entire industry has formed around him.
The role of this industry brainwashing is to find ways to manipulate any kind of information to shape the information that we provide the journalists. Never clear to what extent the truth reaches journalists receiving and transmitting to the population, because the news industry has become quite complacent.
The messages that we provide the journalists are shaped by big corporate powers who often spend millions on advertising. As an example, in the US, a place full of newspapers, television, radio and publications of all kinds country, there are six conglomerates that own 90% of the media: General Electric (GE), News-Corp, Disney, Viacom , Time Warner and CBS. However, these companies operate under many different brands such as Fox, ABC, CNN, Comcast, Wall Street Journal, etc, giving people the perception that they are choosing between multiple options.
And in Spain it happens something very similar, with a few groups that concentrate all media across the country.
"As researchers showed Tavistock, it was important that the victims of mass brainwashing never seem to realize that their environment was being controlled; therefore there must be a large number of information sources, whose messages may vary slightly, to mask the feeling of external control " . L.Wolfe, specialist mass brainwashing
ASTROTURF: NEW TACTICS Brainwashing
As has been the rise of the alternative media, the propaganda machinery has continued to expand.
Sharyl Attkisson, investigative reporter for CBS, explains that the technique of Astroturf (or Astroturf, in Spanish), is the creation of movements of false base (Grass Roots), which are used to manipulate and turn all kinds information, influencing not only journalists but public opinion directly.
"Astroturf is a perversion of the bases. We talked about this technique when political, corporate and other special interests interests masquerading and publish blogs, open pages in Facebook and Twitter, publish ads, letters to the editor, or simply post comments online in any media or platform, to try to make you believe that the message comes from an independent grassroots movement "
"The astroturfing is a marketing technique that is to hide the true sender of an advertising or propaganda message, and pass it off as a popular and spontaneous expression. Through this controversial method, popularity and massiveness it is created fictitious, so that other people are more inclined to accept the idea, brand or product to be promoted. The term comes from Astroturf, a brand of synthetic turf "
How can we get to distinguish what are movements, organizations or real opinions of what is nothing more than a mask to deceive and influence?
It's really difficult, because when these movements are created false basis, wrapped adequate information to make them look real.
Thus, when creating a false movement base through "technique Astroturf" Wikipedia pages, overseen by corporations are created; a wide and continuous presence in social media, including Facebook and Twitter, by paid professionals is generated; It is secretly funded non-profit organizations to get third party support and increase the presence in networks; web pages with optimization engines, such as blogs and third-party sites that support a specific agenda sought; investigations deceptively presented as independent opinions of scholars or scientists are funded; experts working on projects unrelated to indirectly support the cause, making actually paid consultants, etc, etc is financed ...
These methods are used to give people the impression that there is broad support for a particular program, idea or movement, when, in fact, that support may not only come into existence.
Tactics Astroturf also used to discredit or criticize those who disagree with certain agendas, calling stereotypes as "conspiracy theorist" , "magufo" or "healer" , which is already known widely as this type of descalificativa technique is constantly applied.
No one should be surprised that it denounces this article. At the end of the day is the logical consequence of the society in which we live.
And we live in the age of communication, a moment in the history of humanity unprecedented in an increasingly abundant amount of information is exchanged with an ease never seen.
The big problem is that, as more information exchange proliferates almost without filters or restrictions, more exchange proliferates lies, hoaxes and manipulations.
True, we have access to much information that previously could not reach ... But do we distinguish how much of that information is true and how much is false?
If something shows us the example of Astroturfing it is that in many cases, do not know where certain information, who is behind it, or what real intention has originated.
So the question that perhaps we should face is: Are we better informed than in previous moments of human history?
Is the information that we have access helps to be closer to the truth about what is happening in our world, or perhaps this information overload creates more confusion than anything else?
And it is that if a word sobrecomunicado characterizes the world today is the word CONFUSION.
THE KINGDOM OF IDEOLOGICAL CONFUSION
One of the most concrete examples the degree of confusion that reigns in today's society, we find in the field of political ideologies.
For decades, distinguish between "progressives" and "conservatives" or between "left" and "right" has been easy. The benchmarks were clear and placed on the political chessboard was simple.
But is it the same in today's world?
Now, more than ever, the Internet has become a chaotic battlefield, where the "front lines" are blurred and where it is virtually impossible to distinguish between friends and enemies, between left and right, between sincere and deceivers ; It is like a restless ocean in which no longer can navigate with the old charts, as the currents and winds have totally changed, the islands move from place and even lines coasts are blurred and continuously reconfigured.
The first thing to do is stop kidding ourselves and accept that already exist neither in the world today "left" or "right" , at least as we knew them so far.
We live in a world in which large numbers of independent movements allegedly allegedly allegedly leftist and anti-globalization are secretly funded by billionaires like George Soros; a world in which parties that call themselves "Socialist and Workers" as the Spanish PSOE, are the direct orders of large corporations that would always identified with "capital"; a world in which a character like Vladimir Putin is considered an idol of the Bolivarian and pro-Castro leftist movements, while being enthroned at the time by the fascist and radical European ultra-right, as representing the National Front French Marine Le Pen; a world in which we progressive parties as allies of those same bolivarianos tend "alliances" with media-driven ultra-religious dictatorships (and therefore reactionary and ultra-conservative) like Iran; and of course, a world in which the Western powers, starting with the US and its allies created and financed these terrorist groups that claim to fight openly.
If we brought to the present political activists who fought in the streets in the early twentieth century, probably they would go crazy.
Ojipláticos would watch his coreligionists today and would ask them stammered: "and say that this is our ally?"
In fact, if they were not so wealthy, they should go crazy to political activists who shook the world in the 60s.
Who's who at present? Where are the alleged ideological allegiances "lifelong"?
Nothing of what we see seems to make sense and, at least according to the old parameters.
The most disconcerting thing is that there are lot of people who refuse to see all these contradictions, and even programmed with the old parameters and fixed coordinates of the past, still fighting bitterly in favor of one or the other, fanatically clinging to their likes and deeper and refusing to accept that in reality, these old camps no longer exist phobias.
Take a hot example that has hatched with particular strength in recent years and will probably be uncomfortable for many readers: the case of Vladimir Putin and related media.
As we said before, to see people who call themselves "left" or "progressive"defending an ultra-rightist as Putin is simply staggering.
Right now there are millions of people who consider Putin practically little more than a "saint" or "liberator" ; a man came from heaven to bring peace and harmony to the land.
Those same people devouring eagerly the media pro-Russian, as RT or Sputnik, refusing to see that at least one third of the news they offer are pure militarist propaganda in the Russian media boast of the "destructive and mortals " who are Russian weapons, the style of ultra-nationalism lifelong fascist: " the best weapons, which kill more, the more destroyed, much better than those fat Americans and unhappy;more invulnerable the best nuclear missiles, more undetectable submarines, the deadliest bombers and tanks "
If instead of Russian media, were American media and instead of the word "Russia" , we saw written "USA" or "Israel" not even want to imagine what would be said about the content of these media.
And it is that in the same way that taking a daily walk through the means pro-Western means undergo a full shameful indoctrination full of falsehoods and manipulations, a daily walk by RT or Sputnik is the closest thing to a brainwashing in a barracks military, though it despite more than one.
And we know well, because every day in our blogs Robot fisherman and the Microlector, we echo those published in these pro-Russian media news and even pro-Iranian, precisely because they offer information that go against the current pro-Western majority.
But that does not mean that swallow us all the immense amount of propaganda crap that these means spew: simply take advantage of the allegations made against the West, to precisely access to that information that the Western media try to hide and that pure interest, offer their " suspected enemies. "
To give an example: if it were not for the pro-Russian media and pro-Iranians, who have dedicated themselves to counter western propaganda about the war in Syria, would not know the real links of Islamic State and Al-Qaeda with regional powers nor the dark role played in promoting jihadist terrorism countries like the US, Israel and especially Saudi Arabia and Turkey of Erdogan.
And this is what many people struggle to accept and understand: the Russian and Iranian media do not report this because they are the champions of the truth.
They do it because they are interested in the political and military level.
And since the information transmitted due to their interests, just as with the Western media, we must be aware that obeying these interests also lie or distort reality when to them it suits them, exactly as do the Western media.
Is it so hard to understand something as simple as this?
The only conclusion we can come in this war of propaganda interests, is that there is no "good" or "bad" or "defenders of truth" against "defenders of lies and manipulation".
In fact, there is only "bad" and "manipulators" with different colors of uniform or flag, defending their momentary interests ... and we, the ordinary people, are just their manipulated puppets, pieces in his bloodied gameboard .
Multiple sides fight to conquer our minds, so we can use our bodies as cannon fodder in their battles and conflicts, of which never receive any benefit, as history shows us time and again.
And only someone who is very gullible or too indoctrinated not realize it, for you can feel closer ideologically to one of the "sides" in struggle.
However, we can obtain valuable information in this conflict of interest, if at any time we acquired a position as neutral as possible and are able to intuit the ideological inclination and the interests they defend those who publish news or generate currents of opinion.
In other words: knowing "what each foot limps" , we can try to balance the scales and counter its ideological bias.
And if we are also able to detect our own ideological bias and try to counteract as far as possible to have a more neutral view of reality, then we will have an imperative to try to navigate the midst of this ideological and informative chaos compass.
And the question is: knowing that everyone lies by interest, knowing what their ideological bias and trying to compensate for the distorted information that each "side" offers us, can exorcise the information chaos in which we are immersed today's society?
We fear not, because the problem we face is much more complex still, as we will try to present the second part of the article ...
Source: GAZZETTA THE APOCALYPSE
