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
No Reagan, no Trump. If we’re willing to be honest, we have a serious post mortem to do on our cultural mythologies.
Familiar cultural engineering theme. Again. No Reagan, no Trump. In so many terrible ways.
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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?