#ThoughtExperiment (fictional!)
It's the early noughties. My PR company is part of a global viral marking campaign, funded by the G8, WTO, IMF, WB, WEF etc. They're annoyed by the networked activist movement whose massive global protests keeps shutting down their photo op meetings, and distracting the news media from making them look good. We're tasked with coming up with a strategy for breaking up these networks and keeping them from reforming.
How could we possibly do that?
Then some intern at my company comes up with a genius idea, that I will, of course, take credit for.
What we do, they say, is seed two lots of mutually contradictory ideas into their networks.
One, we troll the well-meaning but gullible old-school-unionist and eco-nationalist types with all sorts of vaguely plausible-sounding anti-corporate conspiracy theories. All of them built around tropes that sound vaguely crypto-fascist if you squint at them the right way.
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#ThoughtExperiment
Then some intern at my company comes up with a genius idea, that I will, of course, take credit for.
What we do, they say, is seed two lots of mutually contradictory ideas into their networks.
One, we troll the well-meaning but gullible old-school-unionist and eco-nationalist types with all sorts of vaguely plausible-sounding anti-corporate conspiracy theories. All of them built around tropes that sound vaguely crypto-fascist if you squint at them the right way.
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