Thread by @s7ephen

"the methodologies of psychological operations have come to permeate every aspect of our lives"

Richard Thieme interviewed in 2008 short film made by Susanne Treister

Free full doc here:

(He mentions his overlap with the hacker community)

Clips in 🧵👇 suzannetreister.net/Videography/RT…

"freedom of speech is a wonderful invention, it is a bleeder valve to get rid of dissent in a relatively harmless way.
BUT
if freedom of speech mobilizes people so that their concerns become actionable, then things begin to happen"

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"Science Fiction is how a technological society 'dreams' of it's own real future."

"Mindwar sounds like conspiracy theory. [but] OF COURSE war in a global society is going to be fought for the mind."

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"The [mind] weaponry we are discussing is....powerful"

"who made the decision to [mass medicate] society to keep them mellow?"

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"i asked a historian at the National Security Agency at a meeting once:
'What is it that you and I can discuss with any sense that we share a common history?'
He said: 'anything up until 1945'. "
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"LSD was a direct explicit invention of the CIA because they were looking at mind-control technologies"

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"the levels of reality are nested as they come to us now. you can accept what is presented to you at face value or you can go a little deeper"

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"if an organization comes-into-being that purports to defend the population against these evil-doers, my first suspicion is that the evil-doers have created this subterfuge to gather 'real birds in digital cages' ..."

"Mindwars are more subtle [forms of war]. Public Relations, Propaganda, Psyops, what else is that other than the manipulation of memory "

"[all this] means there are increasingly fewer people you can discuss in depth and detail the truth of what it is you're discovering...most people accept the consensus reality because it's easier and enables them to carry on with their lives"

amen to that.

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