Don’t we have enough monsters walking around?

According to a recent CivicScience survey, belief in Bigfoot and conspiracies in general has risen nearly 18% in the last two years despite the continued existence and progress of sciences.

There’s a method of receiving information called “repetition learning,” by which merely hearing and then repeating a piece of information takes on more veracity with every re-telling, factual or not.

Works on a micro-level, works on a macro-level.

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Carla · 61-69, F

Repetition is the manner in which many of us were taught. It is a proven method.

And short sentences, with no big words, seems to be the best hook.
"Lock her up"
" build the wall"
"Stop the steal"
"Drill baby drill"
The list goes on.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Carla
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Carla · 61-69, F

@Kwek00 thanks for that kwek.

Carla · 61-69, F

@Kwek00 now if only those that are the most affected would listen and understand.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Carla The title however should just have been "Our Brain" ... cause manipulating the population is not only something that Trump does. It works for salespeople of all kinds. And people that want to get stuff done from you. If you want to influence people, language is key.

Carla · 61-69, F

@Kwek00 advertisers have employed behavioral experts, forever.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Carla Yeah, sure... but it's also stuff we do in our daily life. Mostly on an unconcious level, because it was taught by vieuwing how other people in your life get things done from other people. Some people are more trained in it then others. But human beings have a tendency to manipulate. Language always has that manipulative side to it.

Don't forget that one of those things George Orwell warns his readers for in 1948, is the destruction of grammar. The totalitarian regime in that book, controls people by cutting words and oversimplifying language. The more grammar a person has, the more tools they have to construct nuance and better reasoning. If you destroy language, and things become oversimplified, so will the reasoning become more and more simplistic.

An example that you find on this website a lot, are people talking about "killing babies" when it comes to abortion. As if the moment the egg internalises the sperm, you have a baby. By using the word "baby" you create an emotional responds from people thinking about the small humans that are in that phase of their human development. But the word "impregnated egg" and "fetus" ... they are all cut out. These people just removed that part out of their reasoning, and now all people that want other people to have the freedom to have an abortion are murderes because they are killing "babies". Over simplification, is just a political tool to control those people that are easily manipulated because they don't cherish their grammar.

Carla · 61-69, F

@Kwek00 dumbing down. There is an over simplification for you.
But it is appropriate.
My undereducated mother taught me that words were everything. She practically ate books.
If i didn't understand a word, she would have me write it down, and look it up.
I will never be the most intellegent, or educated, but i do know that fear and hatred(most often driven by fear) is the perfect tool for manipualtion.