I was planning to shut down my Facebook account as a protest against their one-sided censorship.
Early Feb, I wrote this…
Then I had a new idea!
Why not use my account there to spread some “malinformation”. (Which apparently means: “facts used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”)
But…
I don’t want to mislead people.
And I don’t want to harm people.
I do want to “manipulate” people, however… in a hopeful effort to wake some people up from the mass information psychosis they are trapped in.
The “manipulation” I’m planning is to lean into the “common knowledge” strategy for psychological manipulation… trying to get people to think beyond The Narrative by appealing to this “common knowledge” as a strategy/tactic.
It’ll go like this:
I’ll write a post that starts with something that should be common knowledge but isn’t (or isn’t yet, sadly), and then add a second bit as a “teaser” that is less likely to be common knowledge but which I believe is (or may be) true.
The goal is to get people to go “huh… I never thought of that”. People may disagree with the second part, what with it being more “extreme”, but the idea is that in doing that, they may agree with the first part, or find themselves being unintentionally persuaded by it.
Why are you doing this? you might ask
Great question.
For a few reasons.
I’ve been frustrated with the question “what can I do?”. I don’t want to just gripe about what I see going on around me. I want to have some kind of an impact. I want to do something.
I was really impressed with the concept of “common knowledge” and the shaping of thoughts, particularly through psychological strategies. It seems that a lot of people form opinions on emotion and influence, not on rational, careful thought. Using that “for good” (as I see it) struck me as interesting.
I was feeling itchy to “poke the bear”, so to speak (i.e. to be a little bit edgy)
I realized I don’t really care if I get in Facebook Jail. I don’t really use FB much. I certainly don’t need it. I may end up closing my account at some point anyway.
I also realized I don’t have the time nor inclination to engage in lots of online debate. I tried it a couple of times and it was too time-consuming and too frustrating.
So this is my strategy instead.
I will post some of these “Everybody Knows…” tidbits, about once a week, and see what happens. I expect I’ll get a lot of people, friends even, who will disagree. Maybe even accuse me of spreading misinformation.
But maybe… maybe… some will at least either (a) intentionally rethink their opinions, or (b) be unintentionally swayed.
Either way I consider it a win.
Here are some examples:
Everybody knows that masks don’t prevent the spread of COVID, but did you know that some masks people wear may actually increase the spread?
Everybody knows that SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, but did you know that the scientists there were doing bio-safety level 4 research in a level 2 lab because the new level 4 lab wasn’t completed?
Everybody knows that SARS-CoV-2 was man-made by illegal gain-of-function research, but did you know that the unique furin cleavage site in the spike protein (which allows it to bind to cells) was actually patented by Moderna 3 years earlier?
Everybody knows that the Canadian government tyrannically arrested peaceful protestors in Ottawa in February, but did you know that the judge for at least one of them denied bail by declaring the person in-effect guilty, prior to any trial/judgement?
Everybody knows that the vaccines don’t prevent you from contracting COVID-19, but did you know that the CDC now says that vaccinated people are more likely to contract COVID-19 than unvaccinated?
Everybody knows that questioning the mainstream narrative about COVID can get you cancelled (or worse), but did you know that now you can be labelled a terrorist for doing that?
This is a work in progress, so feel free to suggest additional “everybody knows” psy-op ideas.
First Post
Here’s what I posted to FB to start this all off:
And the Second Post
This is my second post, keeping the psy-ops experiment alive:
Good luck with this, herding cats can be difficult. Sometimes it takes a bit of prodding and a lot of slow stroking. I've tried to feed kitties everything from Ahi to Mahi, they seem to prefer formation stew.