Tinfoil Hat - Mind Control and Coercive Psychological Systems

Preface

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:10:51 +0000

Greetings Earthlings, my name is Skews Me. Surely you’ve heard of me by now having been mentioned in countless movies and television programs over the past several decades.…

After I was adopted, I was given the name Kevin J. Crosby, but I don’t know if my biological parents ever gave me a name.

I’ve been a proponent of human rights for as long as I can remember, and have had countless adventures relating to this over the course of my life.

While maturing into a conglomeration of all the old cool 1970s and early 80s children’s programs, adventure movies, and the advent of video games, I was most always on honor roll, and I seemed to have a knack for knowing how people should be led by being a vigilant follower.

Kaiserslautern American High School in Germany graduated me in 1988 with an award for Government in addition to the Presidential Academic Fitness Award. The University of Washington in Seattle demanded I study political science, but I wanted to work with computers, help musicians, and play with the dormies.

I majored in Music Technology interested in neural networks and psychology toward cybernetics. After my sophomore year, the UW also gave me a Residence Hall Student Leadership Award.

Before I finished my degree, I started working full time for a music software company creating cutting edge technology during the crossover from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.0 with Multimedia to Windows 3.1.

During my prime I decided to be a hero again – and after ratting out specific vermin in 1996 – began researching the obscure topics I needed to know to explain the world I learned about growing up. Presentations of my research to government agencies have changed public policies, making the world safer for children, but not for me.

I just like to help.

If there’s only one page of mine you read, please make it Dumbing Down.

In the meantime, I’m always open to suggestions. Especially from anonymous folks who ask me tough questions so I figure out their solutions.

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:20:11 +0000

Introduction – Kids may rationalize, peer pressure, beg, bribe, bully, guilt, or resort to any number of other tactics.
Conspiracy Theory – The members need not know each other or the part played by others.
Information Control – “The War of the Worlds” led thousands of listeners to believe that the planet earth had been invaded by Martians!
Obedience to Authority – Ultimately 65% of all of the “teachers” punished the “learners” to the maximum 450 volts.
Herd Mentality – Researchers discovered that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction.
Connectivity – It’s just expected that we all have a mobile phone on us at all times.
Cloud – There is no form of digital communication that the government cannot and does not monitor – phone calls, emails, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts, Internet video chats, etc.

Boob Tube – Television may be likened to an addictive activity, producing ‘momentary pleasure but long-term misery and regret.’

Marketing – A firm’s marketing department is often seen as of prime importance within the functional level of an organization.
Cradle-to-Grave – Disney reps are offering new moms, within hours of giving birth, a free Disney Cuddly Bodysuit for their babies.
What’s in a Name? – That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet
Brand Identity – The beers you started drinking when you were a young adult often become the beverage of choice later in life.
Meme – A meme is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person.
Perceived Value – The higher the price the more likely customers are to perceive it has being higher quality.
PSAs – Old ads like “this is your brain on drugs,” may have encouraged teens to try drugs.
Repetition – Repetition is fundamental to the success of any advertising program.

Immersion – Concentrating on one course of instruction, subject, or project to the exclusion of all others for several days or weeks; intensive.

Gameplay – Learning the basic procedure of the scientific method.
Gaming Addiction – Players of violent video games have significantly higher feelings of aggression.
EEG – A future where brain sensors are used to let thoughts manipulate computers as fluidly as a mouse.
Subliminal Affect – Aggression can be increased by the presence of weapons in the environment.
Smell Effect – Gamers who received peppermint scent showed significant improvements in their video game play.
Gorgeous Grub – Imagining sucking a lemon…can produce a pH-level change in the mouth and a recognizable brain signal.
Fast Food – How much do we really know about food?

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Big Lie – A lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”

False Advertising – Disney induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.
Tell Lie Vision – A far greater percentage of voters hear the original lie in a campaign ad than ever read about the fact-checked version.
Faux News – FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a “law, rule, or regulation,” it was simply a “policy”.
Voting – Mob ties, bribery, felony convictions, and threats of coercion are visible in the public record.
Brains – Conservatives showed much stronger skin responses to negative images, compared with the positive ones. Liberals showed the opposite.
Propaganda – You got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
Greed – There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. – Mahatma Gandhi

Manchurian Candidates – The perfect deep-cover agent…is the one who doesn’t know he or she is an agent.

Dumbing Down – Dumbed-down texts too easy, too simple, too boring.
Conditioning – I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select.
Thought Reform – Unbeknownst to Orwell, China was subjecting students to this “reeducation” process to adopt Communism.
Brainwashing – Cut off from friends, relatives, previous relationships, abusive groups surround the recruits and hammer rigid ideologies into their consciousnesses.
Hypnotism – A synthetic hypnotic spy with a dual personality is extremely hard to detect.
Spy – Called ‘the most addictive thing on TV at the moment’ by The Daily Telegraph.
Sodium Pentothal – Large doses of Ritalin and Sodium Pentothal have been used in narcoanalysis.
Mickey Finn – Surreptitiously altered to induce diarrhea or stupefy, render unconscious or otherwise incapacitate the person who drinks it.

Fight Club – Concern that the film would incite copycat behavior.

Prison – One in every 142 U.S. residents was in prison or jail in 2002.
Cults – Teaching children to hate inundates them from all directions.
Stalking – Psychological Harassment is not a new phenomenon but it is one that is on the rise.
Gangstalking – Gang stalking involves the use of multiple individuals to stalk, harass and taunt a victim, as well as to vandalize personal property.
Voice to Skull (V2K) – The Voice of God weapon – a device that projects voices into your head to make you think God is speaking to you.
Torture – Confessions elicited through beatings are notoriously unreliable.
Tinfoil Hats – MIT: The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the [United States] government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz.
Booby Traps – The booby traps could have been overlooked by everyone except a military-trained officer.

Conspiracy – The members need not know each other or the part played by others.

Station S – When Tokyo talked, Bainbridge Naval Radio Station listened.
Paperclip – Operation Paperclip immigrated at least 1,600 Nazi personnel along with patents and industrial processes worth billions.
Disney – Disney is one of the best deceptions of the Illuminati.
Illuminati – The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society. – U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
MK-ULTRA – Manufacturing Killers Utilizing Lethal Tradecraft Requiring Assassinations
Janet Reno – Obscenity prosecutions decreased 86%.
1996 – Timeline of events circa 1996.
Abusers – The child is “drugged, hypnotized, and traumatized.”
Priests – The church has recognized the problem of abuse by priests for at least 1,700 years.
Slavery – In 2009, the average price of a slave was $90.
Rebellion – You say you want a revolution?

Battered – The average age of remembering childhood incest is between 29 and 49.

Bullies – Power makes people feel like they’re better than another person.
Domestic Abuse – Domesic violence goes by many names, including intimate partner violence (IPV), spousal abuse, domestic abuse, and child abuse.
Parental Alienation Syndrome – Children caught in the middle of such conflicts suffer severe losses of love, respect and peace during their formative years.
Child Sexual Abuse – One in three girls and one in five boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 16 years old.
Traumagenic Dynamics – Researchers have identified a host of medical and psychological symptoms that are associated with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
Suicide
Memories – The average age of remembering childhood incest is between 29 and 49.

Snake Oil – Snake oil salesmen would falsely claim that the potions would cure any ailments.

Meds
Decriminalization – It costs three to four times as much to house a prisoner as it does to enroll them into a treatment program.
Tobacco – One of the most widely used addictive substances in the world.
Beer – The “Purity Law” is the oldest food regulation in the world and still exists today unchanged from the original.
Cannabis – Making the drug illegal and thereby creating crime networks is a very high price to pay for a relatively small benefit.
LSD – The US Army sponsored studies of LSD at Army installations and by contracts in civilian institutions between 1955 and 1967.
Heroin
Cocaine
Meth
Bath Salts
Fix
Rehab

Tech

Conclusion – There is still widespread denial when it comes to accepting that Mind Control is being used against the youngest members of society.

••••• SHEEPLE •

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00:43 +0000


© Gary Larson

Sheeple (a portmanteau of “sheep” and “people”) is a term of disparagement in which people are likened to sheep, a herd animal. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research. By doing so, they undermine their own individuality and may willingly give up their rights. — Wikipedia

Introduction – Kids may rationalize, peer pressure, beg, bribe, bully, guilt, or resort to any number of other tactics.
Conspiracy Theory – The members need not know each other or the part played by others.
Information Control – “The War of the Worlds” led thousands of listeners to believe that the planet earth had been invaded by Martians!
Obedience to Authority – Ultimately 65% of all of the “teachers” punished the “learners” to the maximum 450 volts.
Herd Mentality – Researchers discovered that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction.
Connectivity – It’s just expected that we all have a mobile phone on us at all times.
Cloud – There is no form of digital communication that the government cannot and does not monitor – phone calls, emails, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts, Internet video chats, etc.

Sheeple • Boob Tube • Immersion • Big Lie
Manchurian Candidates • Fight Club
Conspiracy • Battered • Snake Oil • Tech
Conclusion

Introduction

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:05:38 +0000

Reading through email spam or the classified advertisements in a progressive newspaper, one may find offers for everything from assertiveness training¹ to sexual domination hypnosis² to computer software designed to flash brief messages on the screen with the goal of quitting smoking or losing weight.³ These are just a few of the many household Mind Control products marketed today promising that their simple tricks will allow anyone to be the master of their domain. While the efficacy of these programs is debatable, the science behind them is quite sound.

The basics of Mind Control are as ancient as mankind itself. Convincing someone to adopt an idea or perform a task is commonplace in every family. Children begin learning how to rationalize, peer pressure, beg, bribe, bully, guilt, or resort to any number of other tactics including blackmail and all out violent assault in order to get their way. As author Eric Schlosser notes in Fast Food Nation, James U. McNeal, a leading authority in marketing to children, “classifies juvenile nagging tactics into seven major categories” in his 1992 book Kids As Consumers:

A pleading nag is one accompanied by repetitions of words like “please” or “mom, mom, mom.” A persistent nag involves constant requests for the coveted product and may include the phrase “I’m gonna ask just one more time.” Forceful nags are extremely pushy and may include subtle threats, like “Well, then, I’ll go and ask Dad.” Demonstrative nags are the most high-risk, often characterized by full-blown tantrums in public places, breath-holding, tears, a refusal to leave the store. Sugar-coated nags promise affection in return for a purchase and my rely on seemingly heartfelt declarations like “You’re the best dad in the world.” Threatening nags are youth forms of blackmail, vows of eternal hatred and of running away if something isn’t bought. Pity nags claim the child will be heartbroken, teased, or socially stunted if the parent refuses to buy a certain item.⁴

An increasing number of teens and young adults are beginning to hone these skills in order to control family, friends and coworkers. As behaviorist B.F. Skinner explains in his book Walden Two:

We make continual efforts to control each other – teachers to control their students, students to control their teachers; parents to control their children, children to control their parents; friends and lovers, governments and citizens, all are engaged in this enterprise – but we do it poorly, haphazardly, because we don’t understand what we’re doing and even refuse to acknowledge the truth of our behavior.⁵

“Flicking through some of the saner sections of neuro-linguistic programming texts (minus the new age content) brings up the subtle use of language and body-language to influence other people,” states United Kingdom Defense Contractor “Mom” in personal correspondence. One method of this technique is through “mirroring” ⁶ the actions and words of the other person, which Mom explains:

Mirroring fosters a sense of ease or trust. Courting couples tend to do this intuitively (watch dating couples and see how they mirror things like sipping coffee, taking a bite of food, etc.) but it can be used as a way of making the mirrored party susceptible to persuasion. By doing the opposite to mirroring, the other party can be made ill-at-ease and be less amenable to persuasion (basically it rubs them up the wrong way).

Annie Finnigan reports on body language for Women’s Day magazine:

“Up to 80% of what we communicate is nonverbal,” says Joe Navarro, a former FBI agent turned nonverbal communication expert and author of What Every Body Is Saying. That means every gesture, look, mouth twitch, eyebrow raise, even the way we stand sends a message.… We relate to people in three ways: verbally (with words), vocally (tone of voice), and visually (body language), says Albert Mehrabian, PhD, emeritus professor of psychology at UCLA and author of Silent Messages. But the three V’s don’t always line up.… “If there’s an inconsistency between the verbal, vocal and visual, our words give off the least information,” he says. “Our facial expressions play the greatest role.”…

“Poker players are good at hiding nonverbal cues,” [says poker champion Annie Duke]. “But I always watch them very closely, and if I see them blinking fast, licking their lips or flashing a quick grimace before they smile, chances are they’re bluffing.” ⁷

Mom points out entertainer Derren Brown⁸ whose website reveals that he “can seemingly predict and control human behavior. He doesn’t claim to be a mind-reader, instead he describes his craft as a mixture of magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship.” Brown “primes” his audience members using subtle clues to respond in predetermined ways. The effect is dramatic.

Mom also notes a Mind Control game that primes players based upon their personality: conformists will end up visualizing one image (e.g., an elephant in Denmark) while nonconformists will see another (e.g., an emu in Dubai). This phenomenon may be found in simpler form per a circulating email that has the reader calculate the number six several times then asks for a vegetable. It claims 98% of readers will choose carrot.

From its application in the classroom to its use in the workplace, psychology has become a hot topic. The discipline is even finding its way into homes. Television programs like “Nanny 911″ and “Supernanny” demonstrate what the power of a little Mind Control can do. The children on these shows would surely be required by schools to take a “chemical straightjacket” ⁹ such as Ritalin, but in a week’s time the behavior modification programs transform these tiny terrors into little angels.

Brain implant expert José Delgado wrote in Physical Control of the Mind:

The contrast between the fast pace of technological evolution and our limited advances in the understanding and control of human behavior is creating a growing danger. We are facing a situation in which vast amounts of accumulated destructive power are at the disposal of brains which have not yet learned to be wise enough to solve economic conflicts and ideological antagonisms intelligently. The “balance of terror” existing in the present world reflects the discrepancy between the awesome technology and the underdeveloped wisdom of man.¹⁰

And in the introduction to Delgado’s book, Ruth Nanda Anshen notes that:

Man has entered a new era of evolutionary history, one in which rapid change is a dominant consequence.… He must now better appreciate this fact and then develop the wisdom to direct the process toward his fulfillment rather than toward his destruction.… By intelligent intervention in the evolutionary process man has greatly accelerated and greatly expanded the range of his possibilities. But he has not changed the basic fact that it remains a trial and error process, with the danger of taking paths that lead to sterility of mind and heart, moral apathy and intellectual inertia; and even producing social dinosaurs unfit to live in an evolving world.¹¹

A documentary at the YouTube.com website, “The CFR Controlled Media Cabal (Part 3),” reports:

The human mind is like a computer no matter how efficient it may be. It’s reliability is only as great as the information fed into it. If it is possible to control the input of the human mind, then no matter how intelligent a person may be, it’s entirely possible to program what he will think; and yes, it’s even possible to program people to laugh at the mere mention of the word “conspiracy.” ¹¹


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Conspiracy Theory

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:10:49 +0000

“Dictionaries list words as they are popularly conceived, but current usage sometimes lacks scientific accuracy,” wrote José Delgado in Physical Control of the Mind:

Unless each term is defined, the reader’s conception may differ from the writer’s. Classifications and definitions are only human agreements which try to capture the essence of a person, place, or event by describing several of its elements. They are like sketches, which may omit or distort details. Naturally, if there is no agreement on the subject under discussion, the meaning of related words and sketches will be useless. Definitions should be considered as working tools to guide us on confusing ideological battlefields.…

Theories, experimental tools, and descriptive language are all very different, depending on whether we are dealing with chemistry, action potentials, social relations, or ghosts. When the entity under consideration is very complex, as the mind is, it is necessary to employ different methods to analyze the various properties, and it may be difficult to integrate results obtained in a variety of ways which reveal diverse aspects of truth.¹ When consulting the literature we should not assume that different phenomena are equivalent merely because authors use the same words to identify them.²

For example, many people when encountering something they don’t understand may think of the word “conspiracy”, which then triggers the word “theory”, and the two combined as “conspiracy theory” then elicits the false belief that it must be some impossible crazy idea. This form of Mickey Mouseⁱ thinking effectively shuts down critical thinking, exploration, and understanding – while perpetuating ignorance and increasing feelings of hatred toward the so-called “bearer of bad news.”

“The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word,” reports the Wikipedia.org encyclopedia:

It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics).³

The term ‘conspiracy’ refers to two or more criminals working in cahoots, such as gangs and other organized crime networks. The Lectric Law Library explains:

18 U.S.C. 371 makes it a separate Federal crime or offense for anyone to conspire or agree with someone else to do something which, if actually carried out, would amount to another Federal crime or offense. So, under this law, a ‘conspiracy’ is an agreement or a kind of ‘partnership’ in criminal purposes in which each member becomes the agent or partner of every other member.

In order to establish a conspiracy offense it is not necessary for the Government to prove that all of the people named in the indictment were members of the scheme; or that those who were members had entered into any formal type of agreement; or that the members had planned together all of the details of the scheme or the ‘overt acts’ that the indictment charges would be carried out in an effort to commit the intended crime.

Also, because the essence of a conspiracy offense is the making of the agreement itself (followed by the commission of any overt act), it is not necessary for the Government to prove that the conspirators actually succeeded in accomplishing their unlawful plan.⁴

In the case of Craig v. U.S. C.C.A. Cal. 81 F2d 816, 822, the California Court of Appeals ruled:

A conspiracy may be a continuing one; actors may drop out and others may drop in; the details of operation may change from time to time; the members need not know each other or the part played by others; a member may not need to know all the details of the plan of the operation; he must, however, know the purpose of the conspiracy and agree to become a party to a plan to effectuate that purpose.


A.F. Branco

Notes

ⁱ Mickey Mouse adj. 1.a. Slang. Unimportant; trivial: “It’s a Mickey Mouse operation compared to what goes on in Lyons or Paris” (Jack Higgins). b. Slang. Irritatingly petty: the school’s Mickey Mouse requirements for graduation. 2. Slang. Intellectually unchallenging; simple: His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students. 3. Music. a. Blandly sentimental. Used of popular compositions and performers. b. Relating to a soundtrack that accompanies the action in an unsubtle, melodramatic way suggestive of music written for animated films [The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed.].
– Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), p. 133.

U.S. Military Slang. Anything that is unnecessary or unimportant [The Barnhart Dictionary of New English].
– Len Deighton, Goodbye, Mickey Mouse (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), p. 1.

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Information Control

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:15:40 +0000

In a 12 November 1816 letter to George Logan, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I hope we shall take warning from the example [England] and crush in it’s [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country.” ¹ By December 2000, of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 were corporations and 49 were countries, according to information compiled by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh of the Institute for Policy Studies in their Report on the Top 200 corporations as reported by the Corporations.org website.²


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According to the Media Reform Information Center:

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called “alarmist” for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote “in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media” – controlling almost all of America’s newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market. More than 1 in 4 Internet users in the U.S. now log in with AOL Time-Warner, the world’s largest media corporation.³

In 2004, Bagdikian’s revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations – Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch’s News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) – now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric’s NBC is a close sixth.

As former intelligence insider Mark Phillips notes, “Information control is mind control.” Phillips with Cathy O’Brien co-authored Trance: Formation of America in 1995 submitted for Congressional Record and Access Denied: for Reasons of National Security in 2004 about Mind Control slavery in America.

“The Old Gray Man of the CIA,” William “Bill” Colby, known for exposing The Company’s “family jewels” from his tenure as Director in the 1970s – abruptly replaced by George H.W. Bush – to Colby’s suspicious disappearance and death in late April 1996, let us know that “the Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” ⁴

“If you control (own) the media you control how the population thinks making all the other tools to be used against the masses that much easier to impose and accept,” writes Roger Landry for The Liberty Beacon. “Using this tool/weapon can effectively shape and mold public opinion to suit your needs or justify your actions, and in doing so render all of your heinous weapons much more effective and successful.” ⁵

“The bulk of the media and most elected officials refuse to investigate what’s happening to this country,” writes Joshua Holland for the AlterNet.org website.⁶ A documentary at the YouTube.com website, “The CFR Controlled Media Cabal (Part 3),” reports:

It’s a sobering fact that the hidden power structure of international finance has exerted tremendous influence over public opinion in this country through its virtual control of higher education and major segments of mass communications.⁷

Source: Mind Control in America: Exposing the Strategy to Manipulate Your Mind

As the website MindControlInAmerica.com notes:

Under the right circumstances, people can be led to believe things that are not true.… On October 30, 1938, thousands of people fled from a crisis that had no existence except in their imaginations. A radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” led thousands of listeners to believe that the planet earth had been invaded by Martians! “We are ready to believe almost anything if it comes from a recognized authority,” writes Howard Koch in his book, The Panic Broadcast. Koch wrote the radio script performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater on CBS.⁸

Related audio

The War of the Worlds (October 30, 1938), The Mercury Theatre on the Air, at http://www.mercurytheatre.info, MP3 at http://sounds.mercurytheatre.info/mercury/381030.mp3 (retrieved: 3 January 2011).

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Obedience to Authority

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:20:04 +0000

During the 1970s, neobehaviorists performed countless experiments on adults and children alike. Colleges jumped at the opportunity to test new theories.

In 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated that normal people can easily turn into sadistic “guards” while reducing their “prisoners” to blind obedience. Scheduled to run two weeks, the study was halted on day six due to ethical concerns. According to Stanford News:

The arrestees were among about 70 young men, mostly college students eager to earn $15 a day for two weeks, who volunteered as subjects for an experiment on prison life that had been advertised in the Palo Alto Times. After interviews and a battery of psychological tests, the two dozen judged to be the most normal, average and healthy were selected to participate, assigned randomly either to be guards or prisoners. Those who would be prisoners were booked at a real jail, then blindfolded and driven to campus where they were led into a makeshift prison in the basement of Jordan Hall.

Those assigned to be guards were given uniforms and instructed that they were not to use violence but that their job was to maintain control of the prison.

[Psychology Professor Philip] Zimbardo’s primary reason for conducting the experiment was to focus on the power of roles, rules, symbols, group identity and situational validation of behavior that generally would repulse ordinary individuals. “I had been conducting research for some years on deindividuation, vandalism and dehumanization that illustrated the ease with which ordinary people could be led to engage in anti-social acts by putting them in situations where they felt anonymous, or they could perceive of others in ways that made them less than human, as enemies or objects,” Zimbardo told the Toronto symposium in the summer of 1996.¹

According to the Standford Prison Experiment PrisonExp.org website:

There were three types of guards. First, there were tough but fair guards who followed prison rules. Second, there were “good guys” who did little favors for the prisoners and never punished them. And finally, about a third of the guards were hostile, arbitrary, and inventive in their forms of prisoner humiliation. These guards appeared to thoroughly enjoy the power they wielded, yet none of our preliminary personality tests were able to predict this behavior. The only link between personality and prison behavior was a finding that prisoners with a high degree of authoritarianism endured our authoritarian prison environment longer than did other prisoners.²

Prisoners coped with their feelings of frustration and powerlessness in a variety of ways. At first, some prisoners rebelled or fought with the guards. Four prisoners reacted by breaking down emotionally as a way to escape the situation. One prisoner developed a psychosomatic rash over his entire body when he learned that his parole request had been turned down. Others tried to cope by being good prisoners, doing everything the guards wanted them to do.… By the end of the study, the prisoners were disintegrated, both as a group and as individuals. There was no longer any group unity; just a bunch of isolated individuals hanging on, much like prisoners of war or hospitalized mental patients. The guards had won total control of the prison, and they commanded the blind obedience of each prisoner.³

[By the fifth night it became apparent the experiment had to be stopped. The experimenters had created] a situation in which prisoners were withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways, and in which some of the guards were behaving sadistically. Even the “good” guards felt helpless to intervene.⁴

Christina Maslach, a recent Stanford Ph.D. brought in to conduct interviews with the guards and prisoners, strongly objected when she saw our prisoners being marched on a toilet run, bags over their heads, legs chained together, hands on each other’s shoulders. Filled with outrage, she said, “It’s terrible what you are doing to these boys!” Out of 50 or more outsiders who had seen our prison, she was the only one who ever questioned its morality. Once she countered the power of the situation, however, it became clear that the study should be ended.⁵

In 1974, Stanley Milgram published his infamous Obedience to Authority study. He discovered that normal people were willing to inflict excruciating pain on a subject at the behest of an instructor as related by Muskingum University:

People who are doing a job as instructed by an administrative figure are following the instructions of that administrative outlook and not the outlook of a moral code. The feelings of duty and personal emotion are clearly separated. Responsibility shifts in the mind of the subordinate from himself/herself to the authority figure. There is a well defined purpose behind the actions or goals of the authority, and the subordinate is depended upon to help and meet those goals.⁶


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According to a short biograpgy of Milgram compiled by Michael Goret et al:

In most versions of this experiment two individuals would arrive at a testing center simultaneously. Here they would meet an instructer who appeared to be conducting the experiment. This instructor superficially appeared as an authority figure by displaying the necessary crudentials [sic] as a professor such as a white lab coat and clip board. The two “subjects”were then taken to a room where one was strapped in a chair to prevent movement and an electrode was placed on their arm. Next, the other individual who was called the “teacher” was taken to an adjoining room where he/she was instructed to read a list of two word pairs. He/She would then ask the “learner” to read them back. If the “learner” got the answer correct, they would then move on to the next set of words in the series. However, if the answer was wrong the “teacher” was informed by the instructor that they were required to administer shock to the “learner”. These shocks first started at 15 volts and increased to 450 volts for each incorrect response. This occured in 15 volt increments. The “teacher” was never cohersed into doing so they were simply told by the instructer that the experiement required them to continue. This in fact is what made this study so intiguing; the “teacher” could have discontinued the experiment at any time but you will soon see that the majority continued to shock. The “teacher” was fully under the assumption that he/she was administering discipline to the “learner” however, they were never really doing so. The “learner” was actually a confederate,a student or actor, who were never actually harmed.…

Today the field of psychology would deem this study highly unethical because of the great deal of stress layed upon the subjects, however it is quite evident that this research yielded some extremely important findings. The theory that only the most severe monsters on the sadistic fringe of society would submit to such cruelty is disclaimed. Findings indicated that, “two-thirds of this studies participants fell into the category of ‘obedient’ subjects. These participants represented ordinary people drawn from the working, managerial, and professional classes” (Obedience to Authority). Ultimately 65% of all of the “teachers” punished the “learners” to the maximum 450 volts.⁷

Harvey Mindess describes a book by renowned behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner in his collection of Makers of Psychology.

A Utopian novel set in contemporary America, Walden Two is the story of a visit by a small group of academics to an extraordinary community run along strictly behaviorist lines. They are variously impressed and repelled by what they see. The community was founded by a man named Frazier, a former psychologist turned reformer, whose belief in operant conditioning knows no bounds. He shows Walden Two to his visitors…keeping up a running commentary on its virtues, at first in a fairly objective manner, but eventually with all the fervor of a zealot.

At the beginning of their visit, for instance, he takes the group out for a walk. “This is our lawn,” he says. “But we consume it. Indirectly, of course — through our sheep. And the advantage is that it doesn’t consume us.… We soon found that the sheep kept to the enclosure and quite clear of the fence, which didn’t need to be electrified. So we substituted a piece of string, which is easier to move around.… [The lambs] stray,” Frazier conceded, “but they cause no trouble and soon learn to keep with the flock.”… The curious thing is that most of these sheep have never been shocked by the fence. Most of them were born after we took the wire away. It has become a tradition among our sheep never to approach string. The lambs acquire it from their elders, whose judgment they never question. It’s fortunate that sheep don’t talk,” said [one of Frazier’s visitors]. “One of them would be sure to ask ‘Why?’ The Philosophical Lambkin” (Walden Two, pp. 15-16).…

The incident seems innocuous enough, but the reader soon learns that it is a prototype for the rest of the story. Not only the animals but also the people at Walden Two have been conditioned to be of service to the community and to carry out their appointed duties without complaint and without question. The resultant peacefulness and efficiency of the place becomes captivation to some of the visitors, but it disturbs others,…who continually raise[] the issue of human beings being deprived of their freedom of choice.⁸

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Herd Mentality

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:25:14 +0000


© Gary Larson

“Herd mentality describes how people are influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviours, follow trends, and/or purchase items,” explains the EveryTherapist.com website:

People in these herds are broken up into two groups, explains Friedrich Nietzsche, a philosopher who coined the phrase. One lended itself to the religious points of views — their beliefs and how those dictated their actions — while the other lended itself to influence by the media — based upon what others perceive as ‘right’ (following trends, social norms, etc.). Nietzsche perceived these two forms of subservience to be a weakness among the common man, and that the “Superman” as Nietzsche terms is the one who overcomes the values of the fallible herd.…

Herd mentality implies a fear-based reaction to peer pressure which makes individuals act in order to avoid feeling “left behind” from the group. Herd mentality is also sometimes known as “mob mentality.” ¹

“Researchers discovered that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction — and that the other 95 per cent follow without realizing it,” reports the PsychCentral.com website:

[University of Leeds Professor Jens Krause], with PhD student John Dyer, conducted a series of experiments where groups of people were asked to walk randomly around a large hall. Within the group, a select few received more detailed information about where to walk. Participants were not allowed to communicate with one another but had to stay within arms length of another person.

The findings show that in all cases, the ‘informed individuals’ were followed by others in the crowd, forming a self-organizing, snake-like structure.

“We’ve all been in situations where we get swept along by the crowd,” says Professor Krause. “But what’s interesting about this research is that our participants ended up making a consensus decision despite the fact that they weren’t allowed to talk or gesture to one another. In most cases the participants didn’t realize they were being led by others.” ²

Connectivity

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:30:22 +0000


© Jean-Luc Cornec

“It’s a mobile society,” notes Doug Gross for CNN Tech:

Call it good. Call it bad. It just is.… It’s just expected that we all have a mobile phone on us at all times.…

With an estimated 5 billion mobile phone connections in the world, not to mention the emerging number of tablet computers and other on-the-go connectivity gadgets, mobile technology has altered the way we live.… Smartphones, or tablet computers, put an amount of computing power in your pocket that would have taken up an entire room a generation ago.…

A phone. A map. A compass. A camera. A video recorder. A video-gaming device. A portable music player. A laptop. A GPS device. A flashlight. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when, if you wanted to have all of those things, you had to carry all of those things.… Today’s mobile devices keep you lighter on your feet, cramming them all into one device.¹

“Smartphones are becoming more and more crucial in today’s world,” writes the TechCrunch website. “Not only do they keep us connected to our social networks, calendars, email, etc., but they are an external display of who we are.” ² Cell phones “provide vital services and human connections,” writes Amy Gahran in a CNN Tech special. “They connect people in dire need with services that can change (or save) their lives and offer new hope, even through simple broadcast text messages.” ³ Blogger Annas Alharbi points out that “cell phones have helped advance globalization and improve people’s lives all over the world.” ⁴

This author finds relief in knowing that even in impoverished regions, cell phones can connect people to social services, social networks, and avenues of popular culture without the need for a traditional computer. “Devices that started out as simple mobile phones have morphed into something more akin to mini-computers that users carry around in their pockets,” relates Visage Mobile CEO Bzur Haun.⁵ Access to information outside of national boundaries is at ones’s fingertips thanks to mobile technology. But all this connectivity carries a price:

“A global study has shown that mobile workers struggle to separate themselves from the devices that they use,” reports Dawinderpal Sahota for the computing.co.uk website. “Reliance on mobile technology has resulted in the average mobile worker working 240 hours a year longer than other employees, according to the study.” ⁶ A summer 2012 television advertising campaign by The Advocates, the nation’s leading jury and trial consulting firm, even depicts their attorneys taking cellphone calls inside a grocery store or along a jogging trail, for example, to then show them sitting down at their work desk at those locations implying that they’re always on call, 24/7.

“Think you’re addicited [sic] to your smartphone?” the Mashable website asks. “Turns out that cellphone addiction might be contagious.”

According to a new study conducted by the University of Michigan, people are more likely to pull out their phone when someone around them does the same.

In the study, researchers watched groups of students, documenting their cellphone use every 10 seconds. Overall, students were on their phones 24% of the time they spent with a friend, and were 39.5% more likely to use their phone when the person they were sitting with had done so in the previous 10-second interval.

Researcher Daniel Kruger said he believes the pattern may be attributed to social inclusion. If the person you’re sitting with is checking Twitter or texting other friends, then you’re likely to do so as well in order to avoid feeling excluded.⁷

Jason England writes for the NewMediaRising.com website:

According to the paper published in the Human Ethology Bulletin, researchers Julia A. Finkel and Daniel J. Kruger have identified two potential causes for this mobile use contagiousness. Either by prompting: the individual remembers to check for emails when his or her friend checks their own. Or by inclusion: a digital wall is put up between you and your friend, when said friend starts using their phone. In a mixture of requirement of interaction and social conformity, you will then usually pick up your phone and check Facebook, to ensure you’re not just there staring into space.⁸

“Cell phone use is increasingly prominent in public settings and may shape face-to-face social interactions,” write the study’s authors:

Cell phones create an alternative outlet for one’s attention and may both promote and interfere with live social interaction. These results have important implications for the role of information technology in modern social interactions.⁹

Cloud

Skews Me — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:35:34 +0000

“Immediately following the devastating 9/11 attacks, many Americans willingly ceded their rights and liberties to government officials who promised them that the feeling of absolute safety could be restored,” writes John W. Whitehead for The Huffington Post:

Even with our freedoms in shambles, our country in debt, our so-called “justice” system weighted in favor of corporations and the police state, our government officials dancing to the tune of corporate oligarchs, and a growing intolerance on the part of the government for anyone who challenges the status quo, Americans have yet to say “enough is enough.”…

Now, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, we are once again being assured that if we only give up a few more liberties and what little remains of our privacy, we will be a free, safe society. The reality of life in America tells a different tale, however. For example, in a May 2013 interview with CNN, former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente disclosed that the federal government is keeping track of all digital communications that occur within the United States, whether or not those communicating are American citizens, and whether or not they have a warrant to do so.…

In other words, there is no form of digital communication that the government cannot and does not monitor – phone calls, emails, text messages, tweets, Facebook posts, Internet video chats, etc., are all accessible, trackable and downloadable by federal agents.^{1, i}

“If wiretapping is strongly justified in individual cases, then, argues the F.B.I, as communication technologies change, so, too, must those laws and regulations,” notes Tim Wu for The New Yorker:

Hence, as new technologies emerge, or as existing ones become harder to tap, the wiretapping power needs to be adjusted to maintain roughly the same balance. This essential concept of balance is what’s behind the F.B.I’s argument that it needs more power lest its ability to wiretap “go dark.”…

But there are two essential conditions for this balance argument to make any sense. First, if it is to have more powers, the Justice Department should also agree that Web communications and stored records are generally subject to the strict standards demanded by the Fourth Amendment (as are the content of telephone calls). As it stands, the Justice Department has been evasive on this point. It has argued against the need for warrants for things like e-mail messages, and often appears to believe that a mere subpoena (a document issued by a prosecutor) should be sufficient to obtain any record stored on the Web or otherwise.…

The second condition needed for the F.B.I.’s balance argument to work is the limitation of highly intrusive monitoring to cases of serious crimes with clear victims. Federal law is chock-full of offenses, which make everyone a potential criminal and, in turn, at least potentially subject to tapping.…

The whole idea of balance in this area must also be put in the context of a growing “surveillance state,” as Hendrik Hertzberg calls it. As intense as F.B.I. surveillance can be, at least the F.B.I. regards the Constitution as a serious constraint, unlike the National Security Agency, which has repeatedly spied on Americans without a warrant, reaching its maximum level of abuse during the Bush years. That doesn’t mean we should be thankful, exactly, for F.B.I. monitoring, but let’s just say things could be worse.…

“Courts, especially the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, are ahead of the Justice Department in their recognition that the data we all store on the Internet nowadays has become core to American privacy,” writes Tim Wu for The New Yorker.²

In May 2013, RT.com noted that “The US government has been running a quantum Internet for over two years.”

The Tech Review blog announced on Monday [6 May 2013] that Richard Hughes and a team of researchers at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico have been running an “alternative quantum Internet,” and have been doing so for roughly two-and-a-half years. In a blog post the website broke down the basics of how Hughes and company created a system that works like a hub-and-spoke network in which all messages anywhere in the network get routed from a main node – a central hub.

“The idea is that messages to the hub rely on the usual level of quantum security. However, once at the hub, they are converted to conventional classical bits and then reconverted into quantum bits to be sent on the second leg of their journey,” announced the blog. “So as long as the hub is secure, then the network should also be secure.”…

It’s a perfectly secure Internet that by definition cannot be penetrated by wiretaps and eavesdropping – and the US government has been sitting on it for the last two-and-a-half years.³

Notes

ⁱ “As we all know, the United States is the real ‘hacking empire’ and has an extensive espionage network,” the state-run Chinese newspaper People’s Daily said.
– Chen Weihua, “Accusations fly over ‘spy nets’,” China Daily, 10-12 May 2013, p. 1.

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