el gato malo;

…the media/info police/propogandist agents and agencies have moved to a proactive stance of putting out obvious idiocy comingled with ideas they want to suppress to try to discredit the whole. (this is a very effective technique and one they have discussed openly) it’s a specific and potent form of misinformation that does an excellent job of discrediting true facts by linking them associatively with flagrant and unpopular falsehoods. when used widely it rapidly generates a bewildering “tinsel” effect that leaves people disoriented and having no idea what to believe. the KGB loved this stuff. now it’s a menu offering at PR and “crisis management” firms. it’s especially potent as pre-prep where you try to get in front of an idea that is emerging and hijack it before it can gain currency by linking the info you fear to a bunch of easily disproven twaddle and/or unpopular/hate speech so that it has to fight this baggage when trying to make a first impression. i will call this form of misinformational manipulation “mis-association.”

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and so we land in the middle of what’s going on now and this is a moment to become more, not less critical, a moment to assess more deeply and not succumb to confirmation bias just because your side is winning because that’s how you torpedo yourself, squander hard won credibility, and fall prey to the misinformational maestros using mis-association to render you mis-calibrated (or at least misperceived as so being.)

josh does great work here talking about the new “documentary” called “died suddenly.”

Read them both, and then be alert to this persuasion technique — a twist on hiding a lie within twenty truths.