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10 Key Ways To Break The Mass Delusion Machine
Here’s how to resist the Left’s culture control, one conversation at a time.
By Stella Morabito
August 27, 2015

Perception is everything. Wars are often won or lost based on how the actors perceive one another’s strengths and weaknesses, not so much how strong or weak they are in reality. So it goes with any agenda item.

When people sense a shift in public opinion on an issue, a fair number will shift right along with what they perceive. Thus, power elites can shape behaviors and attitudes by applying various techniques of crowd psychology, focused on propaganda and silencing dissent.

The end product is thought reform or “collective belief formation.” It’s all about molding your perception of a given issue so your perception will influence others’ perceptions, creating an “opinion cascade.” Effective propaganda also keeps you in the dark about the fact that you are being manipulated.
You Can’t Resist What You Don’t Understand

You can go a long way in fighting propaganda simply by helping people understand how it operates on us. If we can’t grasp how propaganda works, we become susceptible to it. Over time, we lose our ability to distinguish reality from illusion. Mass delusion can set in wherever large populations live in ignorance of how they are manipulated. (We can see this most clearly in a place like North Korea, where six decades of ironclad dictatorship has psychologically transformed the masses into a lemming-like state.)

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1. Drop Political Correctness
2. Realize Personal Relationships Are the Target
3. Human Separation Is the End Result of PC
4. Fear Fuels the Machine
5. PC Is Oiled by Mass Ignorance
6. Coerced Silence Kills Democracy
7. Resistance Is the Only Antidote
8. One Person Has Immense Power
9. ‘Surprising Validators’ Are Like Superpowers
10. Get Out and Engage

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Lots more:
http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/27/10-k...lusion-machine/

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@algernonpj

Man!

This is a great article!

It's more like a reference tool for the future. The Federalist is one of my favorite sites!

Incorporating this info into our lifestyles is going to be a big task. But I'm already on it ...and have been.

I'll present the final few paragraphs....

"For people of goodwill, the instinct to self-segregate with like-minded folks is a trap, and it’s lethal for free speech. PC promotes self-cocooning because that’s the first phase of separating us from one another. If PC is left to its own devices, our isolation becomes complete and all relationships end up regulated by the state.

So conservatives, engage in those polarized, gridlocked places—like the neighborhood picnic, the local swim club, the farmer’s market, the student union, etc.—and engage one on one. Come out to a neighbor or a classmate. Don’t bother with talking points, because the purpose is not to win the argument but to simply to put a human face on your beliefs.

Just be who you are and be friendly. In today’s PC-saturated culture, that’s the only way to draw out the lonely like-minded person or to influence a fence-sitter. It’s also the only way to water down PC stereotypes of conservatives. Ultimately, it’s the only way to start those ripple effects that can create cascades of truth."