The following began as a response to a comment by Oui in his post Cambridge Analytica (Mercer) the Real Election Cycle Culprit, which itself was basically about (apparently quite successful) attempts at mass subliminal opinion skewing using bots and other AI-related forces on social media. It grew. Here it is in its entirety.
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Yes, Oui!!!
Of course, this is nothing new. It is merely a new vessel for the same old advertising-morphs-into-propaganda shit.
From Wikipedia:
David Mackenzie Ogilvy CBE (ˈoʊɡəlviː; 23 June 1911 – 21 July 1999) was an advertising tycoon, founder of Ogilvy & Mather, and known as the father of advertising. Trained at the Gallup research organisation, he attributed the success of his campaigns to meticulous research into consumer habits.
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At Gallup (1938-1948)[edit]
In 1938, Ogilvy persuaded his agency to send him to the United States for a year, where he went to work for George Gallup’s Audience Research Institute in New Jersey. Ogilvy cites Gallup as one of the major influences on his thinking, emphasizing meticulous research methods and adherence to reality.
During World War II, Ogilvy worked for the British Intelligence Service at the British embassy in Washington, DC. There he analyzed and made recommendations on matters of diplomacy and security. According to a biography produced by Ogilvy & Mather, “he extrapolated his knowledge of human behaviour from consumerism to nationalism in a report which suggested ‘applying the Gallup technique to fields of secret intelligence.'”[4] Eisenhower’s Psychological Warfare Board picked up the report and successfully put Ogilvy’s suggestions to work in Europe during the last year of the war.
Also during World War II David Ogilvy was a notable alumnus of the secret Camp X, located near the towns of Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. According to an article on the:[5] “It was there he mastered the power of propaganda before becoming king of Madison Avenue. Although Ogilvy was trained in sabotage and close combat, he was ultimately tasked with projects that included successfully ruining the reputation of businessmen who were supplying the Nazis with industrial materials.”
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There it is, in black and white. The U.S. + British intelligence forces have been all over this idea since the end of W.W. II. They have adapted with the changing technologies of information warfare ever since…radio, print, movies, TV, the internet and now social media.
They were already at it back in the early 2000s in places like the Daily Kos. It was primitive compared to today’s attempts…but it was a start.
Here is a post I originally made on dKos…no longer available there (of course), but I have reposted it here a couple of times. (http://www.boomantribune.com/comments/2012/7/21/231043/468/30/post#here)
However…for those here who might still think that Dkos is some kind of honorable leftiness site rather than a digital version of the same sort of clomp clomp clomping no-think that destroyed the U.S. Communist Party in the late ’40/early ’50s, I will post the part of one of my diaries that proved “beyond a shadow of a doubt” that there are indeed entities on that site that are constructs. The diary itself seems to have been scrubbed and I did not save my work at that time. However, this part is still available on Booman Tribune and I really have no reason to make the shit up.
He [DHinMI] isn’t even one person.
Or if he is…he’s a championship speed reader and touch typist. Who shoots from the hip for hours at a time.
I did a time study of his posts once…somewhere around the time that I got dKrossed…and came up with some ridiculous timing things.
DHinMI and one of his allies.
Addison.
Here are the facts…you could look ’em up, if they are still on the site.
Otherwise…trust me. I have no reason to lie.
At BEST…shallow like a MOTHERFUCKER.
At worst…piecework in a virtual sweatshop.
DhinMI.
07/07/05 Comments.
One comment every 7 minutes and 20 seconds for 4.5 hours. Including one 11.5 minute break, one 15 minute break, and one 11 minute break.
Some bladder!!!
First burst…one every 9.5 minutes.
Second burst…one every 3.24 minutes. Breathtaking.
Third burst…one every 3 minutes. Final burst of speed. A real sprinter, but with great endurance as well.
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Addison
Comments+ diaries, Sun., 07/03
Average 9.25 minutes per comment. PLUS two diaries.
First burst…1 every 33 seconds. Astounding!!
Followed by a diary.
Then a 14 minute break.
Followed by two in the space of one minute.
Then another 12 minute break.
Then a burst of one every 5.5 minutes
Followed by a diary.
Followed by a burst of one every 2 minutes.
Piece work.
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Nice.
Choose your poison.
A group of piece workers.
A VERY industrious hireling.
Or a truly insane obsessive compulsive .
No win any way you cut it.
YAY Big Orange!!!
YAY Dem Central!!!
Today I have nothing to do with Twitter and I only use social media for well defined interests…music, mostly…and damned little of that. Beware the managed flow of opinion. It is very strong and very easily done. Dkos was just the beginning. Its results are appearing…with some amount of success…right here as far as I am concerned. Whether some of the neocentrist drivelers here are bots, paid trolls or simply people who have been essentially brainwashed by controlled mass media/social media efforts is beyond my ability to know for sure, but every time I hear someone defend the current, totally nonfunctional in any progressive sense DemRat national organization I am hearing echoes of the mainstream, intelligence-funded-and-overseen disinformation system at work.
AG
P.S. For those among us who use Google News to watch the ebb and flow of managed information…have you noticed the new setup they are using? It looks to me like a psyops-ceated attempt to manage how people use the site. It has been very clear and easy to use for…oh, I don’t know. What? 20 years? All of a sudden it seems to be set up to push people away from actually “searching” for something of real import. Yesterday the top headline…the most important news of the day…was as follows!
“Exclusive: Warriors’ Kevin Durant is taking even less money than we all thought.”
Now…I am a pro basketball fan, and of course other people will have other ancillary interests. I most certainly click on national and international news stories much more often than I do on basketball news. But their AI system tried to track me away from the pursuit of important info and onto a harmless little sidetrack. Harmless to the PermaGov, at any rate. Repeat this bllions of times a day…mostly involving peple who have no goddamned idea of what is going on…and you have mass mind control at an incredible level!!!
Stay awake, folks.
They’re on us like white on rice.
White rice doesn’t even know it’s white. In fact, it’s been bran-washed. That’s like “brain-washed” without the “i.” Eliminate the human “I” and what do you get?
Clomp clomp clompers galore.
The Zombiefication of the United States of Omertica.
Bet on it.
