The media

So i thought i could share this to get a discussion going, i think the media has changed our life’s many times, they force us into believing things that are not true, they change the facts in ways to best fit their interest and above all, they don't care about the little man, if you know what i mean.

How many times have you heard a story change over time and how the media seemed vague about reports? How many times have we seen media affect people in a bad way? When is it enough? It is important to mention that the media and telecommunications are good in some aspects, like in case of emergencies and other panic situations, but they must not be allowed to abuse the power and do as they want.

These points were written by Noam Chomsky, an American linguist.

·         1 - THE STRATEGY OF DISTRACTION-The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by the political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. The strategy of distraction is also essential to keep the public interested in the essential knowledge in science, economics, psychology, neurobiology, and cybernetics. "Keep the public's attention distracted away from the real social problems, captivated by matters of no real importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to the farm and other animals (quote from the text 'silent weapons for quiet wars). "

·         2 - CREATE PROBLEMS AFTER OFFERING SOLUTIONS

This method is also called "problem-reaction-solution." It creates a problem, a "situation" due to cause some reaction in the audience, so that this is the principal measures that want to accept. For example, let them develop or be intensified urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks, so that the public is the principal security laws and policies to the detriment of freedom. Or again: create an economic crisis to accept as a necessary evil backward social rights and the dismantling of public services.

·         3 - THE STRATEGY OF GRADING

To get them to accept an unacceptable extent, just apply it gradually, a dropper, for consecutive years. This is how radically new socioeconomic conditions (neo) were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s: the minimal state, privatization, precariousness, flexibility, mass unemployment, which is insufficient to pay decent tickets, so many changes that caused a revolution would had been applied at once.

·         4 - THE STRATEGY OF APPROVED

Another way to make an unpopular decision to accept is to present it as "painful and necessary," gaining public acceptance at the time, for a future application. It is easier to accept that a future sacrifice of an immediate sacrifice. First, because the effort is not used immediately. Then, because the public, the mass, always has the tendency to expect naively that "everything will be better tomorrow" and that the sacrifice required may be avoided. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of ​​change and accept it with resignation when the time comes.

·         5 - go to the public as young children

Most of the advertising directed at the general public uses speech arguments, characters, and particularly children's intonation, often close to the weakness, as if the viewer were a very young child or a mentally impaired. The more you get bringing deceive the viewer, the more it tends to adopt a tone infantilizing. Why? "If you address a person as if he had the age of 12 years or less, then, due to suggestibility, it will tend, with some probability, a response or reaction also devoid of a critical sense as a person 12 years or younger (see "silent weapons for quiet wars"). "

·         6 - USING THE EMOTIONAL ASPECT MUCH MORE THAN A REFLECTION

Make use of the emotional aspect is a classic technique to cause a short circuit on rational analysis, and finally the critical sense of individuals. Furthermore more, the use of emotional register allows you to open the access door to the unconscious to deploy graft or ideas, desires, fears and fears, compulsions, or induce behaviors ...

·         7 - Keep the public in ignorance and MEDIOCRITY

Making the public feel incapable of understanding the technologies and methods for their control and bondage. "The quality of education given to the lower social classes should be as poor and mediocre as possible so that the gap of ignorance that lies between the lower classes to upper social classes is and remains impossible to achieve the lower classes (see 'Weapons silent for quiet wars). "

·         8 - encourage the public to be complacent in mediocrity

Promoting the public to think that fashion is the fact of being stupid, vulgar and uneducated ...

·         9 - STRENGTHENING THE REVOLT self-blame

Make the individual believe that he alone is to blame for his own misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or his efforts. Thus, instead of rebelling against the economic system, the individual themselves helpless and blames himself, which leads to a depressive state which one of its effects is to inhibit its action. And without action, there is no revolution! 

·         10 - GUYS KNOW BETTER THAN THEMSELVES TO KNOW 

In the course of the last 50 years, rapid advances in science have generated growing knowledge gap between the public and those owned and used by the ruling elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and psychology applied, the "system" has enjoyed an advanced knowledge of the human being, either physically and psychologically. The system has been able to better understand the average person than he knows himself. This means that in most cases, the system exerts greater control and a great power over individuals than the individuals themselves.

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