This is blog #998.
Ladies and gentlemen,
As I research government influence, information operations, strategic communication and public diplomacy, I often run across claims that the US government is exercising mind control over the population. Mass hypnosis if you will.
There are some very outlandish claims without a shred of evidence.
This is about as conspiracy theory as it gets, there is no basis for believing this. I live and work in the Washington DC area, spent 26 years in the Army, nine in Special Forces, much in Military Intelligence and have tons of friends in the US intelligence community. My friends, this is not happening and can’t happen.
The US government is not nearly as good as many say it is, and you probably don’t think it is doing a good job in anything. Why, therefore, would you believe the government has this super-secret program that can manipulate masses of people? If we had such a program don’t you think we would tell Russia to get out of Ukraine and give back Crimea? Don’t you think we’d tell Kim Jong Un to get real, join the real world and bring North Korea into the 21st century? Don’t you think we’d tell ISIS to just stop running around being stupid and making stuff up about Islam that isn’t true? Oh, by the way, stop killing people. Yeah you, IS.
Propaganda. Mind control. These fall within my field of professional expertise. There is a whole bunch of theories and ideas on propaganda but little of it even borders on actually influencing other people, let alone entire nations or other governments.
As for mind control, it’s not happening. I can’t convince my wife to make me breakfast most of the time, yet somehow you think parts of the US government have some expertise in mastering mind control? This blog is closing in on 1,000 blogs about influence, information operations, strategic communication, public diplomacy, and propaganda. I’ve been working in this field for 20+ years and involved with National Security for 35+ years. It’s just not happening.
Take a moment now and think about this.
Oh, and if you see the name Alex Jones, run away. Don’t pass go. Don’t collect $200. He’s bad juju.
There, I influenced you. That’s all I have.
Filed under: Information operations, Propaganda, Public Diplomacy, Strategic Communication
