Confusion as Propaganda

The Age of Confusion:
Mass Manipulation & Propaganda

In 1928, Edward L. Bernays, (called "The Father of Public Relations and Propaganda") authored a book entitled, 'PROPAGANDA", in which he delineated how to organize mass chaos and how propaganda can be used by an elite few to start wars and influence business, politics, literally every aspect of our lives.

The final chapter is entitled: The Mechanics of Propaganda. Here is an example:

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country."
...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested,
largely by people we have never heard of.

During the 1950s the Central Intelligence Agency put tremendous amounts of research into perfecting the science of torture. The CIA conducted many covert experiments and concluded that the best methods for extracting information came not through the infliction of pain through physical torture, but through psychological torture. Although this brand of torture the CIA devised may not inflict physical pain, it can still do some real damage, as historian and expert on the subject of the CIA and torture, Alfred McCoy, writes:

“Although seemingly less brutal, no-touch torture leaves deep psychological scars.
The victims often need treatment to recover from trauma far more crippling than physical pain”.

In 1963, the Agency created the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual. It was, as Alfred McCoy puts it, the “codification” of everything the CIA had learned from its experiments throughout the 1950s. In the KUBARK (code name for the CIA in Viet Nam) manual the methods for breaking subjects are based generally on psychology. Identifying a victim’s sense of self and then stripping it away is part of the first step toward breaking him or her. This manual set the stage for the introduction of an even more debilitating method of applied fear and confusion as a weapon of propaganda and mass manipulation.....

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The Alice in Wonderland Technique

"The aim of the Alice in Wonderland or confusion technique is to confound the expectations and conditioned reactions of the interrogatee. He is accustomed to a world that makes sense, at least to him: a world of continuity and logic, a predictable world. He clings to this world to reinforce his identity and powers of resistance. The confusion technique is designed not only to obliterate the familiar, but to replace it with the weird…as the process continues, day after day as necessary, the subject begins to try to make sense of the situation, which becomes mentally intolerable… he is likely to make significant admissions, or even to pour out his story."

SOURCE: DIA College PDF

The aim of the Alice in Wonderland Techniqueis to confound the expectations and conditioned reactions of the subjects. They are accustomed to a world that makes sense, at least to them: a world of continuity and logic, a predictable world. The subjects cling to this world to reinforce their powers of resistance. The confusion technique is designed not only to obliterate the familiar, but to replace it with the weird. Eventually, the subjects will break from the psychological pain and agree to accept a "new normal" in order to end the fear and confusion and accept what now appears to be a logical state of reality.

Fear confuses. Fear invades higher states of consciousness and destroys them. Fear is a mechanism of control and that control becomes easier when the subject is confused. That which is causing the fear need not be real, just perceived as real by enough people so as to confuse and fragment the population in order to put the confusion mechanism into gear.

We now see dramatic changes to daily life coming into view; from mass temperature checks and mandatory use of face masks to empty sports and entertainment venues to Orwellian government monitoring of cellphone location and other personal information. In China, authorities are using technology to track healthy people AND those the government claim pose a risk. Now Apple and Google are working together to help US authorities track individuals using Bluetooth technology. All of which is being accepted by the public as the new normal in order to end the psychological confusion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, what we’ve been being put through is literally torture.

Confusion from persistent false fear mongering can never spring from a truly enlightened consciousness. Just in knowing that it’s called the Alice in Wonderland Technique helps you to identify it when it’s happening and will allow you to distance yourself from the confusion that it is attempting to induce. Hopefully, this knowledge will help you to reset your cognitive boundaries and allow you to insulate yourself from the confusion during the attempted manipilation.

The confusion technique is designed not only to obliterate the familiar but to replace it with the weird and nonsensical, normalizing lunatic behaviors and states of madness portrayed as sane. Although this method can be employed by a single interrogator, it is better adapted to use by two or three or more. When the subject enters the room, the first interrogator asks a doubletalk question — one which seems straightforward but is essentially nonsensical. Whether the interrogatee tries to answer or not, the second interrogator follows up (interrupting any attempted response) with a wholly unrelated and equally illogical query. Sometimes two or more questions are asked simultaneously. Pitch, tone, and volume of the interrogators’ voices are unrelated to the import of the questions. No pattern of questions and answers is permitted to develop, nor do the questions themselves relate logically to each other. In this strange atmosphere the subject finds that the pattern of speech and thought which he has learned to consider normal have been replaced by an eerie meaninglessness. The interrogatee may start laughing or refuse to take the situation seriously. But as the process continues, day after day if necessary, the subject begins to try to make sense of the situation, which becomes mentally intolerable. Now he is likely to make significant admissions, or even to pour out his story, just to stop the flow of babble which assails him. This technique may be especially effective with the orderly, obstinate type.