We humans pride ourselves on rationality, and as individuals we are! But as a population, we often act as simple stimulus-response engines. Can someone control an individual human mind as suggested in the movie The Manchurian Candidate? Of course not! But mass psychological operations (psyops), using so called “Influence Science”, do work, and are in continuous use today, not merely in foreign military operations, but domestically as well.
Of course, no individual can be forced to change their mind, but statistical sampling over time proves that some people do change their minds! Just watch the Polls! Crowd psychology-based psycho-visual and psycholinguistic techniques, as well as “attention-focusing” drama can drastically and instantaneously change the outcome of a poll (or a vote). George Bush’s popularity rating soared to 90% after the attack of September 2001. It has been said that the dramatic assassination of Mrs. Bhutto brought John McCain’s campaign back from the dead.
Visual and linguistic juxtaposition are much less dramatic, but they work: Juxtapose a politician’s picture next to an unrelated headline about a murder or a story about embezzlement, and watch their popularity ratings fall. Produce authority figures, who should have inside knowledge, like Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, and his “War Heads” shills, who repeatedly speak about Iraq and 9/11 in the same breath, and polls will move to show that 70% of Americans came to believe Saddam was “behind” 9/11 (even though people previously believed the culprit was Bin Laden or the family whose factory was destroyed by Clinton in Sudan), and knew that Saddam was a secular, not islamic, dictator.)
Now, since June, McCain has been continuously running the following banner ad on websites frequented by Jews… (more…)
