Not much to add, except that the point 10. is particularly novel and disturbing. Another interesting point is 6. by which we must thank a large crowd of idiots who for decades promoted the attack on reason, logic contempt, love by superstition and magical thinking, often from positions tinged with a "progressive" nauseous at this point.
Ten strategies for handling by Noam Chomsky
1. The strategy of distraction
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes determined by the political and economic elites, by the technique of flood or continuous flood of distractions and trivial information. The strategy of distraction is also essential to keep the public interested in the essential knowledge in the area of \u200b\u200bscience, economics, psychology, neurobiology and cybernetics. "Keeping distracted public attention away from the real social problems, captivated by matters of no real importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think (see "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars")
"Terror is based on the confinement and isolation" (Rodolfo Walsh)
2. Create problems and then offer solutions
This method is also called "problem-reaction-solution." It creates a problem, a "situation" provided to cause a reaction in the audience, so this is the principal of the actions you want to do accept. For example: Let it unfold and intensify urban violence (Crime), or arrange for bloody attacks, so that the public is the applicant, strict safety policies and laws to the detriment of their own freedom. Or: create an economic crisis to gain acceptance as a necessary evil retreat of social rights, privatization and the dismantling of public services.
3. The strategy of gradual
To make it accept an unacceptable degree, just apply it gradually, in dribs and drabs for years (as is being done with some privatization). That is how it conditions socioeconomic radically new (neoliberal) were imposed during the 1980 and 1990: minimum welfare state, privatization, precariousness, flexibility, mass unemployment, wages and do not guarantee a decent income, so many changes that have caused a revolution if they had applied at one time.
4. The strategy of deferring
Another way to accept an unpopular decision is to present it as "painful but necessary" (as the current reform at age pensions English government and opposition), gaining public acceptance at the time, for future application. Indeed fácil aceptar un sacrificio futuro que un sacrificio inmediato. Primero, porque el esfuerzo no es empleado inmediatamente. Luego, porque el público, la masa, tiene siempre la tendencia a esperar ingenuamente que “después de esto todo irá a mejor y el sacrificio podrá ser evitado”. Esto da más tiempo al público para acostumbrarse a la idea del cambio y de aceptarla con resignación cuando llegue el momento.
5. Dirigirse al público como criaturas de poca edad o enfermos mentales
La mayoría de la publicidad televisiva dirigida al gran público utiliza discurso, argumentos, personajes y una entonación particularmente infantil, muchas veces próximos weakness, as if the viewer were a little child or a mentally deficient. The bigger the trick the viewer, the more it tends to take a childish tone. Why? "If one goes to a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, due to suggestibility, it will tend to a response or reaction is also devoid of a critical sense as a person 12 years or fewer years of age (see "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars").
6. Use the emotional rather than reflective
Make use of the emotion is a classic technique for cause shock, a sort of short circuit on rational analysis, and finally to the critical sense of the individual. (Example shown time and again victims of a disaster, an attack or an economic crisis, to use as proof and so carry out "unpopular decisions, but necessary") Moreover, the use of emotional register to open the access door to implant or graft unconscious ideas, wishes, fears and doubts, compulsions, or induce
behaviors ... "The art of our enemies is to demoralize, to sadden people. The people down it is due. Nothing great can be done with sadness "(Arthur Jauretche)
7. Keep the public in ignorance and mediocrity
Making the public is unable to understand the techniques that directly affect him and the methods used to control and enslavement. "The quality of education given to the lower social classes must be the poor and mediocre as possible with access to less information is true, so that the distance from the ignorance that is planned between the lower and upper classes seem, be and remain unattainable for the lower "
" Most teachers teach facts, ideas and good teachers teach great teachers taught how to think "(Jonathan Pool)
" Ignorance is the worst enemy of civilization, and often ignorance, in effect, as evil as evil itself "(Eugenio Maria de Hostos)
8. Encourage the public to be complacent with mediocrity
Promote the public to believe that it is "Fashion" to be simple, stupid, vulgar and uneducated. Urging treated as a "weirdo" who think more of the account. "Ironic is not?
9. Strengthen self-blame
make believe, to the individual that he is the one responsible for his own misfortune because of their low intelligence, minimum skills or their lack of effort. So, instead of rebelling against the unjust economic system in which they live, the individual is helpless and self-blame, creating a depression, one of whose effects is to inhibit its action.
10. Individuals know best what they themselves known.
Over the past 50 years, rapid advances in science have generated a growing gap between public knowledge and those owned and used by the ruling elites. With biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the "System" has enjoyed a sophisticated understanding of human beings, both physically and psychologically. The system has gotten better known to the common person than he knows himself. This means that, in most cases, the system exerts greater control and great power handling and use of individuals more than individuals about themselves.
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