In my drafts folder a big ass post on psyops. It got out of my control, like one of those tube men or wave dancers you see at car dealerships. So I did a mental reset and decided to break some of it down.
The main thrust of this post is not to discount psyops, but being in a mindset that there is “a psyop around every corner” is not a good way to go through life. I think we do have to be vigilant in our skepticism, but at the same time, we can’t discount everything as propaganda and psyops, even as many things can be used for that purpose.
First, what is a psyop?
A great example of a psyop is what happened to us back in 2020. Radio, TV broadcasts, grocery store PA systems, newspapers, magazines, websites, emails, regular mail, store signage, even comics and animated ads all pushed forth the notion that there was a novel, deadly virus and that it was decimating us. Heck, if they thought there was any value in it, they probably would have employed skywriting, semaphore, and smoke signals to further punctuate the Covid narrative.
What was the intention? Well, the intention, in my speculation, was the scare the shit out of as many of us as possible in order to coerce us into behaving in a certain way.
And it worked, unless you were an “essential worker.” If you were an essential worker, you were a brave hero going out into a world mired in disease and fighting to keep the lights on, food on the table, and shelter over our heads.
When you go to the media and corporate level of psy-op, it becomes clear that it was what it was. The media was in synch with the sick psy-op. Corporations were falling over themselves to show they were in compliance with the restrictions.
However, when you are at our level (civilians) there is not very many people that are running or part of a psyop. They are simply the ones complying. I doubt most of the people you speak to on social media or in conversation in daily life are knowingly part of a Psyop. But they do have their reasons for participating in it. Yet, essentially, you are just dealing with another person who in the Asch experiment, heard the bell, in this case, the announcement that there was a novel, deadly virus, and stood up…or behaved accordingly.
So when you read a neighbor’s rant about other neighbors not wearing masks outside during the pandemic, they are not employed by the government or a conspiracy to do so. It is far more likely they are victims of indoctrination rather than composers of the propaganda symphony.
The same could be said of politicians. Many of them, like the rest of society, were subject to the COVID psyop. They became part of the mass formation, but unfortunately, they also employed some of the policies during COVID that turned our world into the weird, dystopian, hamstrung version it currently is. This is on them. They should have known better.
At the very least, they should have recognized that a lot of the restrictions and regulations were not based on any sort of Constitutional Principle. There is no “pandemic clause” in the Constitution. There is no “in case of a deadly novel virus, our rights have to be suspended.”
So what are examples of the psyop? Check these morsels out:
•There was a novel, deadly virus.
•It was spreading through the population, and it could be as bad or worse than the Spanish flu.
• It could kill anyone. young old, healthy, sick, short, tall…it could kill anyone at any time.
•In order to combat it, there needed to be lockdowns to prevent transmission
• If you have to be out in public, wear a mask.
• Avoid large gatherings.
•15 days to stop the spread.
• The science is settled.
What isn’t a psyop, though?
Nutty people adopting a given ideology or idea do not necessarily make a psyop.
But reporting on those people could be part of a psyop. So, for instance, you want to say “people who are antivaxxers are nuts,” you could simply do this by making sure everyone you interviewed about being against mandatory vaccination held very weird views.
I can think of one example of this easily. One of the first groups to be against the vaccine and for alternative treatments of “Covid” was the Frontline Doctors. Among them was a woman who also believed that illnesses were caused by sexual congress with demons. It was Stella Immanuel. I liked Stella Immanuel when she talked about the hydrochloroquine treatment for Covid. Did not so much like her in terms of credibility when she related the demon congress leading to sickness notion she had.
So the logical conclusion one could make from enough of these types of people being “against mandatory vaccination” is to assume anyone who holds a view similar to that is “nutty.” And yet, I was already against the vaccine long before it was announced that it had been produced “at record speed.”
The same government that can’t fix a pothole after years now contends it has created a vaccine for a novel, deadly virus in ten months?
This whole “discredit by association” strategy was employed by many “pro-vaccine” accounts on Twitter. A doctor on Twitter talked about “pseudoscience” and would talk about things most people believe are nutty. And then would lump anyone who dissented against mandatory vaccination into his cycle of posts.
Was he part of a psyop, though?
I don’t know. I certainly never claimed he was. I merely pointed out his behavior, which eventually led to him blocking me. He didn’t have to say that those who are against the experimental injection believed in pseudoscience are called nutty. The mere fact that he only posted on issues of pseudoscience did all the heavy lifting for him.
I have seen people who are against the COVID narrative, and they stretch along a large swath of opinions. There are many who believe in the lab leak theory, there are others who believe in the wet market one. There are others like me who think it is a false dichotomy. There are some who believe that both the virus and the vaccine are novel and deadly. There are others who think parts of the world were deliberately poisoned to mimic a spreading virus. There are some who believe that the whole thing, from the very beginning, was fake.
And now there are those of us, and I count myself among those now, who think that everything we know about virology and vaccinology is fake. That the whole process wherein a virus is “determined to be a virus” is actually what results in artifacts known as viruses and not the actual “infected sample” itself, as it cannot be directly extracted from the sample.
I don’t think that people who differ along this swath of different opinions are “controlled opposition” or part of a “psyop.” But certainly anything along the swath of these opinions could be used as Psyops.
In the end, it all depends on what someone supports in terms of policy.
If you believe in the novel deadly virus, and yet still believe I have the right to decide what interventions to take, or how much risk I am willing to manage, then we are on the same side. We’ll unravel any variations of our opinions through conversation later on.
Yes, there are far too many that I am mostly aligned with on all this who have called me “controlled opposition” or “part of the psyop” because of a single point that we do not share.
Then there are those who claim every single bit of information that is to be found is a psyop. Psyop is like covid, covid became the one and only cause of death as if before it, death did not exist. Pysops are now the only motivation for anything and everything any and all public figures do. Just as covid eradicated the flu so completely that it was forgotten except in a historical sense, pysops have erased personal ambition, pride, avarice, self promotion or even self preservation. Nope, the only reason to release information, the only reason for the timing of the release is “Psyop”, to provide an example.
This has been a topic that I have been wanting to post on, however, too overwhelmed at the moment to care enough to do so. Thank you for posting on this topic.
Thanks, Jimmy
We are all connected, righteous or wicked, white or black, baptized or unbaptized, smart or dull- we’re all part of the web of the human family, and no one has exclusive access to 100% wisdom or knowledge of what’s going on, though some of us (read: you) are epistemically curious about finding truth and sharing it with one another.
Problem is we all suffer from human frailty, like trying to use optics, except some are misshapen, others cracked and others shaded making seeking the truth all the more a challenge. I also have a contrary view that humanity is anything BUT evolving, but rather DEVOLVING, thus the increasing chaos.
How can we learn to love self and neighbor to improve our lot?