If you want to know more about the various paths and vectors which came together to form our modern day discourse coalition of #authoritarianism in America, @davetroy ‘a full series is worth sitting down for. davetroy.medium.com/the-big-histor…
The perspectives follow from examining networked corruption as well as liaised disinformation & infiltration phenomena.
Put differently: it’s not complete. There’s further vectors, from confessional organizations to transnational elements to organized crime. But it is a start.
One thing surfaces when we reconstruct the #history and actions of what has become this discourse coalition of #authoritarianism in America: a clear and distinct focus on influencing societal development and human behaviour:
Presidential campaign poster, from 1968: Richard M. Nixon (Republican). The Birth Dearth had been a foundational element of the GOP for quite a while, it just had not been given its name yet.
Yes, that Nixon …
Another presidential campaign poster from #history - with a familiar theme. The cultural engineering, as always, foundational. This one from 1980: Ronald Reagan (Republican). #CNP
In between events of this ongoing self-coup, there’s been mention by sociologists and historians, as well as within #OSINT of “Cultural Engineering”.
Social Engineering targets the individual.
Cultural Engineering targets the group.
1/ It’s about giving direction to behaviour
2/ We tend to either dismiss the power of social and cultural engineering as a result of our cultural mythologies (individualism, exceptionalism), or think about it only in terms of economics.
Our perception is a construct of external stimuli.
Our perception directs behaviour.
3/ The simplest method of shaping perception through external stimuli is narrative. But what is narrative?