>>41122006
Love some Urth novels, great stuff.
Anyway, continuing today's lesson.
Behavioral control follows an "insurance model." One method to keep a society in line isnot enough--you need dozens of them. It used to be cable, print news, and so on. Now with the American buy out of Tiktok, the digital version is complete. Anyone can be driven insane by ChatGPT and induced to kill. Anyone can be radicalized on a board like /pol/ and then used as a weapon. Even those who don't get targeted for such tactics are just useful consoomers as long as their consumption of digital sludge doesn't impact or endanger real power.
Large scale behavioral control ("Luigi was a people's hero, and definitely not a patsy for a professional or programmed assassin") and small scale behavioral control (the "Discord shooter" who blasted a church with kids in it recently) work in concert. One reinforces the other. When the scale is tipping too far towards real populist anger or revolt, you pull a Charlie Kirk. You tip the scales back. Overnight, we go from decrying a genocide or pointing out Trump's connection to the Epstein files ("enigmas never age") to everyone being unable to shut up about the Big Gun Violence of the week.
And to a degree this is understandable. The people running this scam, tilting this pinball table, have had 80 years of experience doing it. When we welcomed Nazis into the fold of intelligence after WW2, they brought with them their studies on human behavior. And this information is put to work every day in America.
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Trauma = control.
9/11. The Boston Marathon bombings and the 3rd bomber that got away, pic related. The Vegas shooting. And now, Charlie Kirk.
Trauma programs people to respond a certain way. Herds them. Controls them. And the beautiful thing is, none of them realize it. "Fear will keep the local systems in line."
As long as everyone is terrorized and angry and distracted, the elites are safe.