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Talk about guiding your opinion!
Apparently, you have no idea what she means by "guided public opinion". That figures.
Apparently she also assumes a single person writing a blog is a powerful tyrant capable of controlling all media messaging. Blogger's are tyrants!
Apparently she also assumes a single person writing a blog is a powerful tyrant capable of controlling all media messaging. Blogger's are tyrants!
We see this demonstrated often here in the posts of rusha, who avidly consumes the opinions of Brian Stelter, Rachel Maddow and the drooling retards on The View
LOL. Oh, yeah. I have read exactly one article that she has written and that one article menticided me. Odd isn't it that the actual description of menticided is at complete variance with yours. She just absolutely controls all media messaging. She's a tyrant.
That description comes from the Journal of American Psychology. But I already know it won't matter to you as you already know you're lying. Anything to try to distract from information you hate.
Yes, that made me laugh, too. It's like Tucker Carlson on the airwaves day after day telling his loyal cult followers how the news media are all liars and doesn't allow free speech, anymore.She tells you to beware of guided public opinion and then proceeds to guide you through all the things she thinks you should be watching and reading. She tells you to get off TV and then tells you to get on TV and here are the programs you should be viewing. She tells you to stop reading newspapers and never mentions the sucking vortex of the internet (oh, she mentions social media, but nothing else, and then guides you to a ton of conspiracy-leaning sites and video platforms that you should be reading and watching.
She tells you not to allow yourself to be guided, and then literally gives you 12 steps to guide you! She even tells you what kind of music you should listen to, what youtube channels are acceptable, and a whole list of what movies to watch.
Also it would be interesting to know her background, since shoehorning various terms like operant conditioning into a right-wing pop psychology commentary on the pandemic without a background in psychology and a decent understanding of behaviorism just sounds like someone trying to pretend they know more than they do.
Some ideas she has that are worth considering, although they're very basic and unoriginal. I hope you paid as much attention to these as you did to the new word you just learned that confirms all your existing biases.
Reignite your curiosity.Shed your cognitive biases, ideological predilections, and preconceived notions.Ask heaps of questions—especially “why.” Ask yourself why you believe something and on what evidence you are basing this belief. Drill down to your root premises and see if they withstand scrutiny.When you encounter “news,” apply logic; reason (the rest of the sentence is gobbledegook about life before Covid).Play devil’s advocate. Take John Stuart Mill’s advice and argue your opponent’s side.
... And yet, there he is! The current king of the media blowhards, spouting off about whatever he wants, day in and day out.LOL. I love how you completely ignore the description of menticide just like anna does.Yes, that made me laugh, too. It's like Tucker Carlson on the airwaves day after day telling his loyal cult followers how the news media are all liars and doesn't allow free speech, anymore.
LOL, you don't know about cults much. A tendency of cults is that the leader isn't questioned. But a large part, the majority actually, question a number of positions Tucker holds.Yes, that made me laugh, too. It's like Tucker Carlson on the airwaves day after day telling his loyal cult followers how the news media are all liars and doesn't allow free speech, anymore.
Odd isn't it that the actual description of menticided is at complete variance with yours. She just absolutely controls all media messaging. She's a tyrant.
You'll have to throw much much harder than that to dent the rock that Purex uses instead of a head
Yes, that made me laugh, too. It's like Tucker Carlson on the airwaves day after day telling his loyal cult followers how the news media are all liars and doesn't allow free speech, anymore.
Generally when people who aren't insane leftists refer to the MSM they're referring to the leftist liberal lying side of the media, and it's understood that Fox and some few other news outlets are on the right side of the media and can be counted on to cover issues that the leftist side won't.
Oh, the deception is very real. But everyone believes it's the 'other guys' that's being deceived.
How am I to see this blogger as a powerful tyrant capable of using all the power of the state to manipulate and brainwash people?And that one article had you in total agreement, and you ran straight here to amplify it.
I'll let you in on the joke here. We're not menticided in this country (we're not North Korea).
We have no single 'tyrant' menticiding us. And don't throw in Satan as the single tyrant, we're talking secular tyrants. There are multiple factors as to why and how people are influenced, from evil capitalism to religious and political power manipulation and a whole lot in between. Even basic advertising is a form of brainwashing. But there is no "organized" single-source brainwashing going on here, even the crazy MAGA propaganda has limited power, its own deluded followers constitute a minority, but they're striving mightily at getting and/or maintaining minority rule. And they may yet succeed.
You've missed my main point, whether intentionally or by sheer obliviousness. You're amplifying someone who tells the reader not to trust "c) Organizations, regulatory agencies, tyrants, politicians, self-aggrandizing “experts”, compromised scientists, behavioral psychologists, public-opinion engineers, smear merchants, ghostwriters, Big Tech gatekeepers, influencers, pushers, fact-chokers, and other colluders enlisted to control the narrative to protect the power and profits of (a) and (b)."
Yet she pushes many of these various entities to you, the reader. She literally relies on behavioral psychology terminology like operant conditioning but that's okay, because she's vetted them for you! She is a self-aggrandizing expert telling you not to rely on self-aggrandizing experts. She is herself an "influencer" on the very social media platforms she's warned you about, helping to perpetuate their "power and profits." She herself is in the business of making money off of influencing the thinking of her readers.
Do you not see this?
There's a reason you didn't provide a link, isn't there? Because your definition circles right back to your OP, it's the same guy! Joost A. M. Meerloo! It's not the Journal's definition, it's Meerloo's definition. So you used Meerloo to support Meerloo. Nice work!
There is another explanation . It's called mass formation psychosis. It's what happened to the German people in WW2. They could no longer tell the difference between truth and lies. A minority are invulnerable to it, and you're with the majority so that ought to tell you something about yourself.