Abstract
Human language harbors a mechanical aberration, leaving human communication vulnerable to manipulation. Mass deception is the systematic exploitation of this linguistic glitch, the agency of which is premeditated indoctrination. Its influence over human thought and behavior is rooted in the phenomenon of the tribal mind, an unconscious collective ego predisposed to propaganda. In its early modern iterations, Eddie Bernays heralded propaganda as an efficient way to establish shared understanding between an individual and established information that this individual encounters. Communicating to the masses was seen as a means of educating the masses, and this was celebrated. Now, though, inside the utter profusion of multifaceted information, propaganda’s bearing in mass communication cannot be ignored as a contaminant at its source. The challenge is the ease with which intra-action can be subtly systematized, around an insidious fatal flaw.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Political Communication and Society, a section of the journal Frontiers in Communication
Its influence over human thought and behavior is rooted in the phenomenon of the tribal mind, an unconscious collective ego predisposed to propaganda
To thwart this voice is to waive ownership of one’s own mind, one’s own will. This is what has always been under attack by those who propagate mass deception. Those who brandish the dark arts of mass deception anticipate this simple veracity about human perception: that which occurs as real is defended as real
Summary
Circumventing mass deception commences in the individual, waking to the microchasm between language and communication Recognizing this fatal flaw, the individuated person encounters the authentic voice, apart from groupmind. This marks the beginning of the end for propaganda’s deceptive influence and the beginning of alert watchfulness. While the products of this voice cannot be ascribed as a right or a true voice for an entire family, clan, tribe, or nation, it is a sovereign thought form: Emerson’s iron string. To thwart this voice is to waive ownership of one’s own mind, one’s own will. This is what has always been under attack by those who propagate mass deception
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