It’s kinda wild how you can program a person how to feel, what thoughts to have and what to do all by smashing some letters on your screen 🤨
Or in many cases by generating some text.
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See "Poetry"
Oh, I was thinking social media but that works too 😆
It's a theory I have had for a long time.
I speak or write words that you hear or read and it programs your brain. The more eloquently and/or logically I speak or write programs your brain deeper.
Propaganda attacks the emotional centers of your brain eliciting primal responses that are expressed outwardly. Teaching hits other parts and expands you internally. Poetry hits emotional parts as well but remains within you like water flowing under the bridge between propaganda and teaching.
Now combine NLP, poetry, prose, sound bites, generative art, viral reach, etc...
This is how cults are started,
transformed into belief systems,
captured as control mechanisms,
and used to keep you in line.....
Except in the cases where I have been freed, expanded and beset on all sides with tools for the future.
It all boils down to intent. Intent determines the design of the messaging.
Still, I 100% understand what you are saying and you are not at all wrong.
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Same, same.
The tools are the same for good or bad.
Good or bad are just individual perspectives.
From both sides the outcome ia the same.
Intent is where you get to choose....thats the difference
the mind is comprised of hardware, firmware and software.
the hardware being the wetware (biological circuitry and chemistry)
the firmware default patterns (language, culture, habits, beliefs) installed by family, school, religion, society
software is userland. Where interations and new code is encountered and assimlated or pruned.
Your day to day consciousness (thoughts and feelings)
most people only ever interact with userland
you can basically modify, add, remove any of these programs. you can even write your own but you'd better know what you're doing (think abstractly and systematically)
you need version control & off site backups. You need to know how to revert when a belief patch breaks your reality or subverts your intent.
you need systems to guard against mental malware. harmful memetics and paranoia loops (conspiratarded)
you need debugging & trace skills, to track where a thought or belief came from.
without it you can end up with boot loop (never ending existential crisis), bricked mind (dissociation, nihilism, permapsychosis), and supply chain attacks (adopting ideology without understanding the run off effects)
the end game is basically a custom ROM.
A core set of hardware and firmware
, hardened and proven.
intentionally designed self image. One that allows the freedom to install and uninstall belief systems at will.
the ability to hold multiple models of truth and choosing which is most adaptive in the moment.
Use the force wisely.