thegovernmentflu wrote:.....
Also, shouldn't Hugh's tactic have been rendered unfeasible by the internet?
The info-control game is a work in progress.
I can understand how someone might think this sort of thing could occur before the age of the internet, when the options to obtain information were much narrower than they are now. It would be also harder for kids to accidentally stumble on the suppressed definition of the word, since nobody would look up keywords from their favorite movies in an encyclopedia. So at least the KWH theory applied to a pre-internet society would SORT of make sense, though the logistics of it would still be difficult to imagine.
The keyword dynamic is a timeless BRAIN dynamic that is independent of search engine results although those first twenty results are prime territory to get ahold of.
But with the existence of the internet, it would make absolutely no sense to implement this KWH tactic.
But the internet is even more keyword-driven.
As long as most kidz are searching up entertainment piffle instead of "L. Fletcher Prouty," or "Fonzie" instead of "Gaeton Fonzi," they are no threat to power.
Yes, the answers we aren't supposed to know are there and some of us are finding them.
Atleast those of us motivated to find them.
How many kids are motivated to wade through all the JFK material and sort out the wheat from the chaff. Not many. So far. But numbers are going up.
What would the end result of this intricate psychological technique really be, now that the internet exists? Through the government's KWH propaganda, kids they're trying to "inoculate" are ultimately directed to a Google search results page that contains links to the very information that they don't want them to have in the first place. Can't they do better than that?
As long as people spend their bandwith not figuring out how social engineering works and exposing it to other people, the cost-benefit of the internet works out for control by serving as perfect surveillance of the 'opposition,' the intelligentsia Left and middle class using datamining and also seeing in real time how information spreads instead of having to go door-to-door and hope people give somewhat honest answers to sociometric questions.
Hugh can claim that the inoculation and KWH Google trickery will ensure that they never even scroll to the bottom of the page to see the real results, but even so- why even risk it? Is this the best they could do?
It's not a matter of "they'll never," it is a matter of cost-benefit.
The value of datamining purely digitized social behavior is still a social-control gold mine for research and planning to improve conditioning of children and actively setting the news cycle agenda.