Trent Lapinski

Entrepreneur. Tech Executive. Growth Hacker. Business Developer. Technologist. Cyber Security. MysticLabs.com / WPdocker.com

Dec 20, 2016

As a species, humans don’t often like to admit that sometimes our brains still respond to the world through emotions, triggers, and switches which were pre-programmed into us millions of years ago. It is frightening to consider that our free will can so easily be manipulated without us really understanding how or why.

Since Donald Trump won the Presidency something shocking and frightening is taking place in the media and on the Internet. Instead of acknowledging that the mainstream media was wrong about the entire election, the media, tech companies, and Hillary supporters are instead blaming Clinton’s loss on “fake news” and a Russian conspiracy. The media is essentially refusing to accept the results of the election, and are continuing to ignore the truth of everything that was exposed by Wikileaks.

Meanwhile, the Senate just passed the “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act”, and Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have announced a partnership to create a centralized censorship database. While both the Propaganda Act and the censorship database are supposedly to protect the American people from terrorists, they also create the legal and technical mechanisms required to censor the Internet.

This overreaction to losing the election is by far the most aggressive attack on free speech the open Internet, the United States of America, and the World has ever seen. The globalists, US government, media, and tech companies are essentially plotting against the free will of the American people because we did not vote the way they wanted us to.

What is Propaganda?

Definition of propaganda: ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause.

The core concepts of propaganda and public relations as we know them today were crafted in the 1920’s by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud. He combined the research of psychoanalysts such as Freud to create reproducible tactics to manipulate mass groups of people for both political and business purposes.

Bernay’s believed it was his moral responsibility to control the masses, and dictate what products people should buy, and who they should vote for under the illusion of free choice, and open competition. He did not believe in true democracy, and instead believed an elite ruling class or “invisible government” should select our rulers, and dictate our conduct by manipulating the news, inflating personality, and misleading the masses into believing in identity politics. Bernays created the entire philosophy behind modern day information control, public relations, marketing, celebrity, and news media.

In 2012, just eighty-four years after Edward Bernays published his book Propaganda, President Obama legalized propaganda against the American people. In other words, President Obama legalized the governments ability to mislead the public with false information and fake news, and has been doing so for over 4-years now.

That means everything we witnessed during the 2016 election needs to be put into perspective. The rhetoric we just witnessed was because the media knew they had a blank check to lie on behalf of the White House. Worse yet, both the White House and the media are still manipulating the masses, and there is no one left but the people to hold them accountable and they’re now doing anything they can to discredit everyone but themselves.

Before Obama legalized propaganda the US government routinely used propaganda anyway, dating as far back as World War 2, and likely beyond. A notable recent use of propaganda by the US Government includes politicizing of 9/11 to justify the Patriot Act which eliminated many American freedoms. There was also the Iraq war, which had nothing to do with 9/11 as the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and financed by the Saudi government.

The Bush administration simply made up any connection to Iraq, and claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when they did not. Much like the Clinton campaign, and the Obama White House are now claiming Russia hacked the election even though their only sources are two anonymous CIA agents who have yet to present any evidence, merely conclusions.

How Presidents and the Media Manipulate You Into Believing In Fake News

The key psychological principles behind propaganda, influence, and persuasion include: reciprocation (give and take), commitment and consistency (repetition), social proof, likability, authority, and scarcity. While there are dozens of books covering all of these topics, I am going to focus on authority since it is the primary weapon of choice used by the government and mainstream media to manipulate the masses into believing in fake news and misleading information.

Authority and Authoritative Reasoning

The vast majority of news today is owned by just 6 corporations. That means if you pay attention to even one of these corporations you are letting them dictate your reality. By establishing themselves as an authority on the news they can dictate how millions of Americans view what is true or false without having to provide any evidence. People simply trust them because of their reputation, brand, and authoritative position in modern society.

The reason people believe them is because they have established themselves as the authority on what is, and is not “news”. As long as you believe that the media you watch only reports the “real news” then you stop questioning the individual truth of each story, and simply assume what you’re consuming is the accurate truth even though you personally haven’t reviewed all the facts. They’ve established themselves as a credible authority by persuading the public into believing they only tell the truth, and have the publics best interests in mind. However, the 2016 election and Wikileaks proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the mainstream media does not always tell the truth, and can be bought and paid for by politicians and corporations to spread false news and biased information.

To put it simply, the media has convinced the public that they shouldn’t get their news from anyone other than themselves by establishing themselves as an authority. Their intention is to convince the public they are the only source of real news, and all other sources should be discredited immediately. Yet the only proof they have to show of this is their reputation, which is that of 6 mega-corporations who have never had the people’s best interests at heart, who only care about profits, and who’s entire business model is to regularly sell out their audience to the highest political bidders and advertisers.

Narratives

The media uses what are called “narratives” to reshape facts into bite size stories that are oversimplified, easily repeatable, and dumbed down so even a child who cannot read can understand them. However, narratives also enable the media to lie by omission.

News narratives often purposely leave details out of a story and headlines to shape how you perceive them, their importance, and how they relate to other similar events. The media will even compete with itself occasionally dropping exclusives across different networks, but never actually exposing the big picture forcing people to try and fit the puzzle pieces of a story together themselves.

Narratives are commonly used to control the masses perception of events, and are commonly adjusted over time to mislead and misinform the public. In fact, sometimes the media purposely creates multiple narratives around the same story in an attempt to create confusion, so no one knows what the truth is. Other times they all report the exact same narrative no matter what network you’re watching making sure you see the same narrative repeatedly which creates a false sense of social proof.

To put it simply, narratives are news told as a story, that fits a particular format that people have been brainwashed into believing represents the unbiased truth. However, they typically do not contain evidence, or proof, and merely report conclusions which can often be manipulated.

False Flags

A false flag is a covert operation that is designed to look like it was carried out by someone other than the person who actually planned and executed the operation. For example, 9/11 resulted in two wars with two countries who had nothing to do with 9/11. The public was mislead into believing Iraq and Afghanistan had something to do with 9/11, even though they did not. Therefore, 9/11 was a false flag used as propaganda to conduct two unrelated wars.

If you don’t believe me, the US Government recently released the 28 pages from the 9/11 report confirming Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11, and not Iraq or Afghanistan.

This means thousands of Americans lost their lives, and millions of civilians have either lost theirs or been displaced because of propaganda that brought on both the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. This also means there are likely still people who were responsible for 9/11 who have not been brought to justice.

People are waking up.

It is because of articles like this one people are waking up. They’re realizing that no one has the authority to tell them what the news is, and they have a choice in seeking the truth instead. Every day more people become aware of the fact that politicians are lying to them, talking heads on television don’t have their best interests in mind, corporations are colluding and controlling monopolies against them, and an elite class of globalist billionaires are now running the World.

“Fake news” is merely the globalists latest propaganda narrative to give the elites the tools they need to silence entire generations, and control our ability to organize and communicate on the Internet. It is a false flag based on authoritative reasoning that creates a false narrative to control the masses against their best interests by giving up their freedom of speech without even realizing it. Anything the mainstream media claims is fake news should be investigated thoroughly.

Fake news is propaganda, but not for the reasons the mainstream media is claiming.