"Study Reveals How Propaganda Manipulates Facts and Targets Vulnerable Audiences"

 

What do we know about George Orwell? :: Oleg Michman aka "Tom" (@CASBT_UA) | Twitter

blackrosesua.blogspot.com

11 min

December 18, 2015

View Original

It is now very fashionable to refer to his works, and he himself is already included in the host of seers. But, however...What was he doing? Where did you get such wisdom? Interesting? I was also interested, so I am happy to share with you the information that my colleagues provided me with:

“The task of Newspeak... is to narrow the horizons of thought. We will make thought crime

impossible... there will be no words left for it. Each concept will be

designated... in one word,... secondary meanings will be

abolished and forgotten.”

J. Orwell , "1984"

What do we know about the writer? Real name Eric Arthur Blair , born in 1906 in India in the family of a British employee. He was educated at the prestigious Eton, served in the colonial police in Burma, then lived for a long time in Britain and Europe, earning a living at odd jobs, and then began writing fiction and journalism. In 1935 he began publishing under the pseudonym George Orwell . Participant in the Spanish Civil War, where he encountered manifestations of factional struggle in a diverse environment of the left. Wrote many essays and articles of a socio-critical and cultural nature. During World War II he worked for the BBC, in 1948 he wrote his most famous novel, “1984,” and died a few months after its publication. All.

Meanwhile, it is necessary to correctly place the emphasis - work in Burma at a minimum meant that he was an employee of the Colonial Security Forces , but the most important was his last place of work and the secrets that he actually gave away. Obviously, being terminally ill, he tried to tell the world about the methodology of the coming psychological war.

Coming from the "cuckoo's nest"

“The scientist is a hybrid of a psychologist and an inquisitor”

Ibid.

Frankfurt School Theses : “Morality is a socially constructed concept and must be changed”; Christian morality and “any ideology is false consciousness and must be destroyed”; “informed criticism of each and every element of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, family authority, patriarchy, hierarchical structure, tradition, sexual restrictions, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, conformism and conservatism”; “it is well known that exposure to fascist ideas is most characteristic of representatives of the middle class, that it is rooted in culture,” while the conclusions - “conservative Christian culture, like the patriarchal family, give rise to fascism” - and everyone is considered a potential racist and fascist whose father is “a die-hard patriot and an adherent of old-fashioned religion.”

In 1933, with the advent of Hitler, it became dangerous for the luminaries of the Frankfurt School to “reform Germany” and they moved to the USA. After the move, the school received its first order and carried it out at Princeton in the form of the “Radio Research Project.” At the same time, the director of the School, Max Horkheimer , becomes a consultant to the American Jewish Committee, conducting sociological research in American society on the topic of anti-Semitism and totalitarian tendencies with the money of this organization. At the same time, he, together with Theodor Adorno ( Wiesengrund ) , puts forward the thesis that the road to cultural hegemony does not lie through dispute, but through psychological processing. The work involves psychologist Erich Fromm and sociologist Wilhelm Reich . One of their followers, Herbert Marcuse, ends up in New York with them . Actively collaborating with American intelligence (OSS, then CIA) and with the State Department, in the post-war period they are engaged in the “ denazification of Germany ”. Then their ideas were tested in the conditions of the “ psychedelic revolution ”. "Make love, not war." And during the Parisian uprising of 1968, students carried banners with the inscription: “Marx, Mao and Marcuse.” Music, drugs and sex eroded the potential social revolution; the system turned the youth-rebellious style into fashion, using it not only politically, but also economically. At the end of the twentieth century. The well-fed left-wing rebellious generation is already being used as new personnel for the implementation of the neoliberal model...

"1984". Basic as "newspeak of human programming"

“We destroy words - tens, hundreds every day. We leave the skeleton of the tongue.” “All concepts of good and bad must be described in two words.”

“The heresy of heresies is common sense.”

Ibid.

Simplified language limited the freedom of expression of thought, creating a “concentration camp of the mind,” and the main semantic paradigms were expressed through metaphors. As a result, a new linguistic reality was created, which was easy to broadcast to the masses and appeal to their feelings through the metaphorical and intonational structure of the language. The possibility arose of more than just a global ideological “straitjacket for consciousness.” The British Ministry of Information, which during the war years completely controlled and censored the dissemination of information at home and abroad, conducting active experiments with BASIC on the BBC network, which received an order to create and broadcast programs in BASIC to India. One of the active operators and creators of these programs was D. Orwell and his fellow Eton student and close friend Guy Burgess ( British intelligence officer, later revealed as an agent of the Soviet Union along with Kim Philby . Apparently, it is no coincidence that Orwell’s case was under investigation for 20 years Special_Branch )

Orwell worked with BASIC at the BBC, where his “Newspeak” got its roots. At the same time, Orwell, as a writer, was to a certain extent attracted to new conceptual developments and the ability to abolish meaning by means of a new language - everything that is not fixed by BASIC simply does not exist and vice versa: everything expressed in BASIC turns out to be reality. At the same time, he was frightened by the omnipotence of the Ministry of Information, where he worked, which controlled all information. Therefore, in the novel “1984” the emphasis is not on a degraded language, but on the control of information in the form of the Ministry of Truth (“Minitrue”).

BASIC turned out to be a powerful tool for broadcasting and forming a simplified version of events, in which the very fact of censorship was simply not noticed or viewed . We are seeing something similar now in relation to our history and culture. But Big Brother is not watching us - we ourselves are striving to get our share of the television drug.

Priority

Orwell's prediction was realized through "brainwashing" and "informing the population", "doublethink" became the essence of "managed reality". This perverted reality is schizophrenic rather than harmonious because consciousness becomes inconsistent and fragmented. Orwell writes: “ The purpose of Newspeak is not only to provide the followers of Ingsoc with the necessary means of expressing their ideological and spiritual passions, but also to make all other ways of thinking impossible. The task was set that with its final acceptance and oblivion of Old Speak, heretical thinking... would turn out to be literally unthinkable, at least to the extent that thinking depends on word expression .” The final adoption of Newspeak was planned by Churchill by 2050. In essence, Orwell talked about how, as part of a special British intelligence program to introduce Newspeak into English-speaking countries, he was preparing global capitalist totalitarianism.

Whether this leak of information was intentional or whether Orwell’s ambitions and talent as a writer found their way out, now it will be difficult to say for sure.

English " evolutionary positivism "

“Isolated from the outside world and from the past, the citizen of Oceania, like

a man in interstellar space, does not know where is up and where is down.

The goal of war is not to win, but to preserve the social order."

Ibid.

- has been involved in language games for a long time - just remember the linguistic perversions of the mathematician L. Carroll , who drives children crazy with the strange world of “Alice in Wonderland”, from the doublespeak of which one step away from the doublethink of Orwell. At this time, British intelligence had long been using cryptograms, mechanical coders and decipherers, the code of which was never deciphered by the Abwehr. At the same time, she managed to decipher the general code of the Abwehr and the SD, as a result of which the most important messages about the impending bombing of English cities were intercepted, but so that the Germans would not guess about the decryption, Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, 33rd degree Freemason, lover of cigars, cognac and personal comfort, by personal order he forbade informing the doomed population.

British Newspeak was initially not publicly appreciated by F.D. Roosevelt , who publicly declared the project simply “stupid.” But the propaganda machine was already running - sentences were becoming shorter, vocabulary was being simplified, news was structured on an intonation and metaphorical model.

After the war, British television fully adopted this “new sweet style” - simple sentences were used, a limited vocabulary, information was emasculated, and sports programs were programmed on a special truncated schedule. By the mid-70s, such linguistic degradation had reached its peak. Beyond the 850-word limit, only place names and proper nouns were used, leaving the average American's vocabulary at 850 words (excluding proper nouns and specialized terms).

Вrainwashing

“They can be given intellectual freedom,

because they have no intellect”

Ibid.

Back in 1922, V. Lippman (adviser to President Woodrow Wilson ) in the cult book “ Public Opinion ” defined it as follows: pictures inside the heads of human beings, pictures of themselves and others, needs and goals, relationships, are Public Opinion with capital letters . Lippman, as a representative of an ethnic group historically not possessing state thinking , believed that national planning was extremely harmful, and therefore was interested in manipulative practices with the help of which human nature can be changed. He was the first to translate Freud into English, serving in the First World War at the British Psychological Warfare and Propaganda Headquarters at Wellington House with E. Bernes , Freud's nephew, founder of the Madison Avenue company, specializing in personality-manipulating advertising.

“What is important is beyond their horizons. They are like an ant

that sees small things and does not see big things.”

Ibid.

Lippmann himself came from the English Fabian socialist movement, from where he moved to the American department of the Tavistock Institute, where he worked in conjunction with the public opinion polling services of Roper and Gallup , created on the basis of Tavistock developments.

Polls clearly demonstrate how opinion can be manipulated when there is an abundance of sources of information that are only slightly different in focus in order to mask the meaning and significance of external strict control. Victims can only choose the details.

Lippman proceeds from the fact that ordinary people do not know, but believe, “opinion leaders,” whose image is already created by the media in the same way as it is created by movie actors who have more influence on the public than political figures. The masses are perceived as completely illiterate, weak-minded, full of frustrated and neurotic individuals, and therefore resemble children or barbarians, whose life is a chain of entertainment and amusement. Lippman carefully studied the newspaper reading processes of college students. He stated that although each student insisted that he had read everything well, in fact, all students remembered the same details of particularly memorable news stories.

Cinema has an even more powerful effect on brainwashing. Hollywood plays a very important role in shaping public opinion. Lippman recalls D. Griffith's propaganda film about the Ku Klux Klan, after which no American can imagine the Klan without evoking the image of white robes.

Public opinion is formed on behalf of the elite and for the purposes of the elite. London is at the center of this Western Hemisphere elite, Lippman argues. The elite includes the most influential people in the world, the diplomatic corps, top financiers, top leadership of the army and navy, church hierarchs, owners of major newspapers and their wives, families. They are the ones who are able to create the “Great Society” of a single world, in which special “intellectual bureaus” will draw pictures in people’s minds upon request.

"Radio Research Project"

“We create human nature. People are infinitely malleable"

Ibid.

- sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation received its headquarters at Princeton University, as one of the branches of the Frankfurt School, became the most important means of media technology for Lippmann. Radio enters every home without demand and is consumed individually. In 1937, of the 32 million American households, 27.5 million owned a radio. In the same year, a project to study radio propaganda was launched, from the Frankfurt School it was supervised by P. Lasersfeld , he was assisted by H. Cantril and G. Allport , together with F. Stanton , who headed CBS News, later became president of the Rand Corporation and one of the six private individuals to whom Eisenhower proposed to take control of the state “in the event of an invasion by the USSR and the destruction of American leaders . ” The theoretical understanding of the project was carried out by W. Benjamin and T. Adorno, who argued that media can be used to induce mental illnesses and regressive states that atomize individuals.

Individuals do not become children, but fall into childish regressions. Researcher of radio dramas (soap operas) G. Herzog discovered that their popularity cannot be attributed to the socio-professional characteristics of the listeners, but to the listening format, which causes a habit. The brainwashing power of serialization has been discovered in movies and television: soaps are watched by more than 70% of American women over 18 years of age, who watch two or more shows a day.

Another famous radio project is associated with the radio production of O. Wells's "War of the Worlds" in 1938. More than 25% of listeners perceived the production as an information message about an invasion from Mars, which led to national panic . Most listeners did not believe in Martians, but they were tensely anticipating a German invasion in light of the Munich Agreement, which had been reported in the news just before the play's broadcast. Listeners responded to the format, not the content of the program. A correctly selected format brainwashes listeners so much that they become fragmented and stop thinking anything, and therefore simple repetition of a given format is the key to success and popularity.

As we have already said, the later Saul Alinsky, in his “Rules for Radicals,” only publicly described the developments of the Tavistock Institute and the RAND Corporation. Well, a figure named Navalny, who is studying at Yale under this program, tests them on the RuNet. Society should be nothing more than an interested spectator, and decision-making should be left to specially trained people (“Fear of Democracy,” Noam Chomsky ).

**Headline:** 

"Study Reveals How Propaganda Manipulates Facts and Targets Vulnerable Audiences" **Paragraph for Search Robots:**

A comprehensive study has shed light on the insidious tactics employed by propaganda to distort facts and sway public opinion. By selectively presenting information, distorting facts, and appealing to emotions, propaganda aims to manipulate perceptions and beliefs. This study examines how propaganda targets vulnerable audiences, such as youth or ethnic minorities, and highlights the importance of critical thinking in the face of misinformation.

**Conclusion:**

In today's digital age, where information spreads rapidly through social media and online platforms, it is crucial to be vigilant against the influence of propaganda. By understanding its techniques and recognizing its impact, individuals can better discern truth from manipulation and safeguard against the spread of misinformation.

**Hashtags:**

#PropagandaAnalysis #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #ManipulationTactics #FakeNews #PublicOpinion #DigitalAge #InformationWarfare #SocialMediaManipulation