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Random violence or Scare tactics? Mass control, masses on the move: Dictator and monarchical Regimes, and “Arabs” uprising
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 24, 2021
Mass control, masses on the move, colonial powers interventions…
Posted on May 16, 2011
Random violence is the most applied scare tactics by governments, organized crime associations, fanatic religious sects…: Citizens have no way of comprehending what’s the problem and why they are dying, and what they have done to suffer this insanity…
In oligarchic and dictatorial regimes, mass uprising is far more terrifying: The authority have fooled themselves for so long that they indeed comprehend the mood of their people, and they are proven wrong.
Strong “democratic” institutions are Not necessarily that impressed of your particular “free” opinions, expressions, or a few gathering citizens...
Strong “democratic” institutions are somehow more scared if the few well-informed citizens are engaged in disseminating their pieces of intelligence to wider public.
Strong “democratic” institutions, and any political system, are mostly afraid of masses on the move. Their goal is to keep the people in a passive state, and waiting for directives and guidelines through thousands of subtle means that they have total control over.
What worry most the power-to-be are people on the move.
They don’t care if this movement is within the right direction of their wishes and desires: they are simply scared of active citizens marching on, because the end result cannot be controlled or forecasted accurately.
That is why, in critical periods of unrest, because of financial or economic difficulties, the government and its various branches rely on rumors that insinuate to the general public that the government is in complete power of control over the behavior of their citizens, and that the citizens have to be fully confident in the decisions and activities of the government.
This fear technique works most of the time to cow the public into passive status.
Karl Jasper wrote in his book “The German Culpability”:
“The one who remained passive knows that he is morally guilty, every time he failed to respond to an action for protecting the threatened citizens, for reducing injustice, and for resisting infamy”
I think people confuse predictive models of human behavior with models for evaluating the performance of behavior modifications.
Institutions of power know how to modify behavior for a period, which is their main power. Institutions sublet research institutions of “scientists” in statistical design, survey, poll taking, quantitative psychologists, social scientists, political “analysts”, and so forth in order to present models that would corroborate the desires of the fund givers.
I doubt that any model for predicting individual human behavior can outperform the odds of a coin flipping mechanism: Prediction evaluation models target a collective of sample people. What the models are predicting are the behavior of a restricted sample of people, who were subjected with modification treatments, by subtle means unknown to the selected subjects, but obviously known to the authorities.
The government policies are to present the image of omnipresence and omnipotent.
Once masses get on the move, the authority is scared: It can no longer predict the actual behavior of the people.
Democratic institutions are confident that, if the masses relent for a period in marching and demonstrating, they will be able to analyze the wishes of the people and counter-attack by false dissemination of information and pieces of intelligence: The authority have large sway on the media.
In oligarchic and dictatorial regimes, mass uprising is far more terrifying: The authority have fooled themselves for so long that they indeed comprehend the mood of their people, and they are proven wrong.
Institutions for collecting data on regular basis, and analyzing them on a timely fashion, are basically not available in developing countries, or believed not be of any serious benefit.
The only reactions in developing States are dealing with the people on the march with brutal scare tactics: A funeral for a “martyr” of the people generates more gathering of people and a chain reaction gets in action.
Many non-violent Arab uprising were successful because:
First, the mass organization managed to control the violent elements by mass peer pressure such as in Tunisia and Egypt and
Second, the mass uprising were sudden and had taken the authority by surprise to react accordingly.
The other Arab uprising in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria… the violent elements managed to take over the masses for a period, enough for the authorities to give the image of applying the mechanism of LAW and Order that “democratic regimes” comprehend very well.
Note 1: The ultimate single purpose for any authority is “Modifying human behavior to coincide with a set priority of natural passions, for a period of time, which suit the environmental and social conditions of the power-to-be.”
Regimes and “Arabs” uprising: Random violence, Scare tactics, mass control, masses on the move…
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 16, 2011
Random violence, Scare tactics for masses on the move: Regimes and Arab uprising
Strong “democratic” institutions are not necessarily that impressed of your particular “free” opinions, expressions, or a few gathering citizens.
Strong “democratic” institutions are somehow more scared if the few well-informed citizens are engaged in disseminating their pieces of intelligence to wider public.
Strong “democratic” institutions, and any political system, are mostly afraid of masses on the move. Their goal is to keep the people in a passive state, and waiting for directives and guidelines through thousands of subtle means that they have total control over.
What worry most the power-to-be are people on the move.
They don’t care if this movement is within the right direction of their wishes and desires: they are simply scared of active citizens marching on, because the end result cannot be controlled or forecasted.
That is why, in critical periods of unrest, because of financial or economic difficulties, the government and its various branches rely on rumors that insinuate to the general public that the government is in complete power of control over the behavior of their citizens, and that the citizens have to be fully confident in the decisions and activities of the government.
This fear technique works most of the time to cow the public into passive status.
Karl Jasper wrote in his book “The German Culpability”:
“The one who remained passive knows that he is morally guilty, every time he failed to respond to an action for protecting the threatened citizens, for reducing injustice, and for resisting infamy”
I think people confuse predictive models of human behavior with models for evaluating the performance of behavior modifications.
Institutions of power know how to modify behavior for a period, which is their main power. Institutions sublet research institutions of “scientists” in statistical design, survey, poll taking, quantitative psychologists, social scientists, political “analysts”, and so forth in order to present models that would corroborate the desires of the fund givers.
I doubt that any model for predicting individual human behavior can outperform the odds of a coin flipping mechanism: Prediction evaluation models target a collective of sample people. What the models are predicting are the behavior of a restricted sample of people, who were subjected with modification treatments, by subtle means unknown to the selected subjects, but obviously known to the authorities.
The government policies are to present the image of omnipresence and omnipotent.
Once masses get on the move, the authority is scared: It can no longer predict the actual behavior of the people.
Democratic institutions are confident that, if the masses relent for a period in marching and demonstrating, they will be able to analyze the wishes of the people and counter-attack by false dissemination of information and pieces of intelligence: The authority have large sway on the media.
In oligarchic and dictatorial regimes, mass uprising is far more terrifying: The authority have fooled themselves for so long that they indeed comprehend the mood of their people, and they are proven wrong.
Institutions for collecting data on regular basis, and analyzing them on a timely fashion, are basically not available in developing countries, or believed not be of any serious benefit.
The only reactions in developing States are dealing with the people on the march with brutal scare tactics: A funeral for a “martyr” of the people generates more gathering of people and a chain reaction gets in action.
Many non-violent Arab uprising were successful because:
First, the mass organization managed to control the violent elements by mass peer pressure such as in Tunisia and Egypt and
Second, the mass uprising were sudden and had taken the authority by surprise to react accordingly.
The other Arab uprising in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria… the violent elements managed to take over the masses for a period, enough for the authorities to give the image of applying the mechanism of LAW and Order that “democratic regimes” comprehend very well.
Note 1: The ultimate single purpose for any authority is “Modifying human behavior to coincide with a set priority of natural passions, for a period of time, which suit the environmental and social conditions of the power-to-be.”
Note 2: Random violence is the most applied scare tactics by governments, organized crime associations, fanatic religious sects…: Citizens have no way of comprehending what’s the problem and why they are dying, and what they have done to suffer this insanity…
Scare Tactics: The Austin case
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 24, 2009
Scare Tactics: The Austin case
Power: Modifying the order ranking of natural passions (April 22, 2009)
A reader commented on one of my posts and informed me that the US government and police force have invented a “machine” that can modify human behavior, invade individual privacy, and control our daily habits without having to bring citizens to interrogation. He went on to say that everyone in Austin TX know about this machine.
Any individual or institutional power such as executive, legislative, legal, press, media, religion, financial, or economic multinational enterprise has ultimately one purpose: modifying human behavior to coincide with a set priority of natural passions for a period of time that suit the environmental and social conditions.
Strong institutions who hold real power are not necessarily that impressed of your “free” opinions or how informed are the public. Their goal is to keep the people in a passive state and waiting for directives and guidelines through thousands of subtle means that they have total control over.
What worry most the power-to-be are people on the move. They don’t care if this movement is within the right direction of their wishes and desires; they are simply scared of active citizens marching on because the end result cannot be controlled or forecasted.
That is why in critical periods of unrest, because of financial or economical difficulties, the government and its various branches rely on rumors that insinuate that the government is in complete power of control over the behavior of their citizens.
This fear technique works most of the time to cow the public into passive status. Karl Jasper wrote in his book “The German Culpability”: “The one who remained passive knows that he is morally guilty every time he failed to respond to an action for protecting the threatened citizens, for reducing injustice, and for resisting infamy”
I think the reader is confusing predictive models of human behavior with models for evaluating the performance of behavior modifications. Institutions of power know how to modify behavior for a period, which is their main power. Institutions sublet research institutions of “scientists” in statistical design, survey, poll taking, quantitative psychologists, social scientists, political “analysts”, and so forth to present models that would corroborate the desires of the fund givers.
The “professional” scientists with many grants under their belt know how to tamper and adjust models to be biased toward the wishes of the power fund granters. Generally, the power institutions are more astute and foul the scientists more often than not, but it is a game that the scientist learn to grasp and play in due time.
I doubt that any model for predicting human behavior can outperform the odds of a coin flipping mechanism. What the models are predicting are the behavior of a restricted sample of people who were subjected with modification treatments, by subtle means unknown to them, but obviously known by the authorities.
No, the Austin TX “machine” is a scare tactics disseminated by people worked upon. This is the time to get on the move and be vocal and active.
If this terrible machine is invading individual privacy then an investigative panel with wide power should be constituted to deliver weekly reports on its findings and progress. The government policies are to present the image of omnipresence and omnipotent.
Austin TX Machine:individual privacy
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 22, 2009
Power: Modifying the order ranking of natural passions (April 22, 2009)
A reader commented on one of my posts and informed me that the US government and police force have invented a “machine” that can modify human behavior, invade individual privacy, and control our daily habits without having to bring citizens to interrogation. He went on to say that everyone in Austin TX know about this machine.
Any individual or institutional power such as executive, legislative, legal, press, media, religion, financial, and economic multinational has ultimately one purpose: modifying human behavior to coincide with a set priority of natural passions for a period of time that suit the environmental and social conditions.
Strong institutions who hold real power are not necessarily that impressed of your “free” opinions or how informed are the public. Their goal is to keep the people in a passive state and waiting for directives and guidelines through thousands of subtle means that they have total control over. What worry most the power to be are people on the move. They don’t care if this movement is within the right direction of their wishes and desires; they are simply scared of active citizens marching on because the end result cannot be controlled or forecasted.
That is why in critical periods of unrest because of financial or economical difficulties the government and its various branches rely on rumors that insinuate that the government is in complete power of control over the behavior of their citizens. This fear technique works most of the time to cow the public into passive status. Karl Jasper wrote in his book “The German Culpability”: “The one who remained passive knows that he is morally guilty every time he failed to respond to an action for protecting the threatened citizens, for reducing injustice, and for resisting infamy”
I think the reader is confusing predictive models of human behavior with models for evaluating the performance of behavior modifications. Institutions of power know how to modify behavior for a period, which is their main power. Institutions then sublet research institutions of “scientists” in statistical design, survey, poll taking, quantitative psychologists, social scientists, political “analysts”, and so forth to present models that would corroborate the desires of the fund givers. The “professional” scientists with many grants under their belt know how to tamper and adjust models to be biased toward the wishes of the power fund granters. Generally, the power institutions are more astute and foul the scientists more often than not but it is a game that the scientist learn to grasp and play in due time.
I doubt that any model for predicting human behavior can outperform the odds of a coin flipping mechanism. What the models are predicting are the behavior of a restricted sample of people who were subjected with modification treatments by subtle means unknown to them but obviously known by the power to be. No, the Austin TX “machine” is a scare tactics disseminated by worked upon people. This is the time to get on the move and be vocal and active.
If this terrible machine is invading individual privacy then an investigative panel with wide power should be constituted to deliver weekly reports on its findings and progress. The government policies are to present the image of omnipresence and omnicontrol.
“They Tortured me till Dawn”: Nothing changed since colonial times
Posted by: adonis49 on: April 19, 2009
“They Tortured me till Dawn” April 18, 2009
The French Midnight Editions published in 1958 “The Question” by Henri Alleg. The real name is Harry Salem.
Henri was the director of the daily “The Republican Algeria” and he was a militant communist. When the French government in 1955 gave the French army in Algeria wide authorities to squelch the Algerian revolution for independence then the daily “L’Algier Republicain” was shut down.
Henri went into hiding but was captured in 1957 along with Maurice Audin, an assistant in mathematics at the Algeria University. Maurice died during interrogation and succumbed to torture. Henri managed to survive and a copy of his manuscript was whisked to Paris.
The French government banned the book for hurting army morale, incitement to disobedience and defamation of the police force. Laurent Heynemann made a movie of “The question” in 1977.
“A young parachutist covered me with a blanket saying: “Why do you refuse to betray your friends? You must be very courageous to resist that long to torture” He offered me water but I barely felt like drinking. It was Friday evening and they had started torturing me on Wednesday. In the corridor I could hear orders being shouted and then terrible cries of a woman in pains were heard in the cell across of mine.
They tortured till dawn and I could hear howling, beatings, and curses. I realized that this was not an exceptional night; it was a routine night and the parachutists were getting used to their daily tasks. I cried my eye out for hate and humiliation as I heard for the first time the howling and pains of the agonizing detainees.
I was half conscious and slept only in the morning and was wakened up in the evening. I was offered a bowl of hot soup; my first meal in three days. I had difficulty eating because my tongue, palate, and lips were hurting from the electrical wires they inserted in my mouth to torture me. Many places in my body were burned and they were infected. My right arm and shoulder seemed paralyzed.
A nurse checked my pulse and declared to the physician “He is fine, just a little nervous. We can go ahead” They were experimenting with a “truth serum” injected in my vein drop by drop. That was the scientific method that I overheard during the torture sessions. I remembered from what read on the subject that if we had strong will then they would fail in their attempt and I tried to calm my nerves. I inserted my useless left arm in the pocket of my trousers and pressed on my thigh to refresh my spirit that this was not a dream. The physician ordered me: “Count slowly. Go“
The Russian author Vassili Grossman (1905-1964) wrote “Life and Destiny“. He was a reporter for the Bolshevik daily “The Red Star” during the Second World War and witnessed the horrors of the war and detention centers. Vassili took precautions to leaving two microfilms of his manuscript with Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Dimitrijevic.
The KGB had confiscated the manuscript, the carbon copy, and the typewriter ribbons. “Life and Destiny” was published in 1980; it is in the genre of “War and Peace” of 800 pages that uncovers the resemblance of totalitarianism, the rejection of to all kinds of submissions, and the communication with “little people”. It demonstrates the tyranny of the “Good” and how it can become an epidemic worst than “Evil”
Karl Jasper wrote in his book “The German Culpability“:
“The one who remained passive knows that he is morally guilty every time he failed to respond to an action for protecting the threatened citizens, for reducing injustice, and for resisting infamy”
Note: Midnight Editions (Editions de Minuit) also published “For Djamila Bouhired” by Georges Arnauld and Jacques Verges.
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