06/06/2024
10 Strategies for Crowd Control - Professor Noam Chomsky
In January 2011, Chomsky compiled the 10 most used strategies of crowd control used by the 1%.
1. The strategy of distraction:
This strategy is an essential element in governing communities, diverting public opinion’s attention to important problems and changes decided by political and economic elites, through a continuous web of distractions and trivial information. A distraction strategy is also necessary to prevent the public from paying attention to the necessary knowledge in fields such as science, economics, psychology, neurobiology and computer science. "Keep the public interests distracted, away from real social issues, and keep those interests directed toward issues of no real importance." Keep the people busy, busy, busy, with no time to think, until they return to waste with the rest of the animals. "(An excerpt from the book of Silent Weapons of Quiet Wars)
2. Create problems and then present solutions:
This method is also called "Problem - Reaction - Solution". At first, we create a problem or "situation" that is expected to provoke a certain reaction by the people, until the latter demands the actions we want them to take. Example: Letting urban violence grow, or staging deadly bombings, until the people demand security laws at the expense of their liberty, or: Creating a financial crisis until the social rights regression is accepted and public services respond as a necessary evil.
3. Grading strategy:
For unacceptable action to be accepted, it is enough to be applied gradually, such as monochromatic color spectrums (light to dark), over a period of 10 years. This method has been adopted to impose the new socio-economic conditions between the 1980s and the 1990s: inclusive unemployment, fragility, flexibility, external contracts and salaries that do not guarantee decent living, changes that would have led to a revolution if implemented at once.
4. The Strategy of Procrastination:
Yet another way of being resorted to making hated decisions acceptable until presented as a "painful but necessary" medicine, earning the approval of the people at present to implement something in the future. Accepting a future sacrifice is always easier than accepting a living one. Firstly because the effort will not be made now, and secondly because the people always have a tendency to naively hope that 'everything will be better tomorrow' and that they will be able to avoid the sacrifice required in the future. Finally, he leaves all this time to the people to get used to the idea of change and accept it with surrender when the time comes.
5. Addressing the people as a group of young children:
The majority of advertisements directed to the general public use childish speech, argument, characters and tone, often close to the level of mentally re****ed, as if the scenes are a young child or mentally disabled. The more we try to mislead the scene, the more we depend on that tone. Why? “If we address someone as if they were a twelve-year-old child, that person will have just as critical a response or reaction as that of a 12-year-old child. "(An excerpt from the book of Silent Weapons of Quiet Wars)
6. Inventing emotion instead of thought:
Emotion manipulation is a classic technique used to disrupt logical analysis, hence people's critical sense. Also, the use of emotional vocabulary allows for passage of consciousness even if it is planted with thoughts, desires, fears, beliefs, or behaviors.
7. Keeping the people in a state of ignorance and stupidity:
Work in a way in which the people are unable to absorb the technologies and ways used to control and enslave them. """The kind of education offered to the lower classes should be that of the poorest, in a way that the cognitive identity that isolates the lower classes from the upper classes remains incomprehensible by the lower classes"" (Excerpt from the Book of Silent Weapons of Quiet Wars)
8. Encouraging the people to be kind to charity:
Encouraging people to think it’s “cool” to be stupid, barbaric and ignorant
9. Compensate rebellion with a sense of guilt:
He made the individual think that he is the sole one responsible for his misfortune, and that the reason for his responsibility is due to his lack of intelligence, ability or effort. And so, instead of revolting the economic system, he is self-immolation and feeling guilty, which creates a depressive country, one of the effects of lockdown and disruption of movement. Without movement there would be no revolution!
10. Knowing individuals more than they know themselves:
Over the past 50 years, amazing scientific advancements have unearthed that still pervades common knowledge and those despised and used by the ruling elites. Thanks to biosciences, neurobiology and applied psychology, the "system" leads to advanced knowledge of the human being, both physical and psychological. "This ""system"" has become able to know the average individual more than he knows himself, meaning that the system – in most cases – has more power over individuals than they have over themselves."
