Psychological analysis of fear manipulation
Draft paper about the process inside
Yesterday interesting thing happened to me. Multiple persons wrote to me via direct online-communication channel and shared with me information which they probably considered important.
The examined links which were shared with me were:
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Now, as we observed already the mass-formation forming, nudging and all the techniques described in the 5th Generation Warfare in real life, we can observe some patterns.
I will focus on real life situation and psychological processed inside but first some description of the background.
With both of those persons I have been in contact few days before physically and we have already discussed, talk about many of the problems what happened during covid and how they did it.
Those persons didn’t took action even when advised, urged and continue to trust or use channels which are insecure. This means, they didn’t change their search engine, didn’t invalidate the source of information and continue to still repeat or absorb information from sources which were proven to be hacked or used for manipulation.
What this means?
This mean, that those persons don’t understand the severity, mechanisms and techniques used. They didn’t went through retrospective or acceptance that they were manipulated and they simply continue with their old habits as nothing happened.
In real life the problem is, that they are sources who share or encourage the spread of the fear and manipulation of others.
The correct technique when encouraged this manipulation technique is to exclude whole medium and don’t absorb those information voluntary anymore.
Another interesting aspect is, that those persons have phone number to me and also if necessary, they could call or ask for in person meeting to clarify the danger or situation which they were introduced to. This didn’t happened and I doubt they will bring up this topic in real time conversation or in discussion when we will meet again.
If we take this as political message again, is there any reason why they didn’t spend time to either call or understand better what is or how to protect against it? For example like robbery, fire or some other life-threatening conditions?
Around 24hours passed, since they could already initiate another call or do some action to prevent it to ever happen again. For them, the real solution is to secure their own information infrastructure and simply exclude the resources again, which they refuse to do.
So we can expect that this will happen again.
My assumption is that they are addicted to the their phone and they will simply consume again what they will put there. They fighting the media via reading them and then sharing the articles between others. Which is wrong approach.
So in this case, the “phone addiction” is the real source of problems. As well as their life-style which now involves only from the online-interactions.
The problem is the online-society and their lack of social connections. That’s the isolation but it won’t change. As those people also adopted the leisure style which means, that they won’t engage in activates which don’t fit their schedule or simply they don’t have time to do something different. They see their life as fine.
The solution to this?
Hard to tell but it’s probably no easy fix for it. I think this isolation or mass-formation would be solved by richer social life and return to print medias. But that’s harder done than written, specially after the lockdown and complete break up of real social bonds.
Also the society would have to at least state, that this is the preferred model of interaction which won't happen. As the ruling class would lose the efficient model of control which are now the online mass-media.
Real interaction, return to offices, back to print media, sports and human discussion or not sharing but absorbing information's and then explaining or summarizing by their own words.