Written by Adam Scarborough (RMN Dip Psych)
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“Act as if you have the virus!”
Not my words, but those seen on buses, trains, and posters across the country. A part of a huge mega-million pound Government propaganda campaign to control people using fear by visual and auditory stimuli.
What are psyops?
There’s a range of definitions that describe psyops from informal to formaI. A simple definition – ‘control by fear ‘ or ‘obtaining simple obedience’. Psychological operations (aka psyops) has become a generic term for any government or institution using applied behavioral psychology on people subconsciously as a means of attaining compliance. It is a thoroughly unconsenting, underhanded means of modifying the behaviour of victims using propaganda with the goal of subservience.
Psyops is always deception. Don’t try to fathom concepts that cannot be fathomed. It doesn’t matter how they confuse you or why – what matters is they get your attention. You are being unconsciously modified and programmed. Psyops tactics have been applied in warfare as means of manipulating opponents, and disseminating propaganda. It’s psychological warfare. Historically the military has also used psyops to mould groups of soldiers into obedient units hot on discipline.
The objective of psyops is to control people by conventional or unconventional methods. The manipulators behind psyops understand that they aren’t making sense but are trying to make something out of nothing in order to control you.
Are psyops a ‘conspiracy’?
Psyops are not quite conspiratorial since they appear openly on posters and in magazines and other media. Conspiracies cannot be validated since they operate in the shadows..
Subliminal compliance is the purpose
Sadly, millions have ‘adapted’ to government brainwashing during the last year by complying with the propaganda as instructed. There are many reasons for mass compliance including moral blackmail, fear of the impact disobedience will have on their personal and private lives, and not wishing to upset peers and domestic partners. None of this would work without the Government’s ‘Ministry of Fear’ campaign which reinforces people’s responses.
The government employs, SAGE, Mindspace and the Behavioural Insights Team and other psychological agencies for the sole purpose of control by fear. Over the last year, the Behavioural Insights Team even admitted at one point that they hadn’t increased fear sufficiently to suit themselves among their unsuspecting targets – which is everyone.
No government with any ethical and moral principles would want to employ such a cynical means of controlling people. It’s not something we, in a supposedly ‘democratic’ Western nation, would expect. What it shows, as George Orwell terrifyingly portrayed in 1984, is that no nation is immune to the dangers of totalitarianism when circumstances are right. Both capitalist and communist states will use psyops when it benefits the rulers.
Types of psyops
Psyops range from the physically directed – fear of police brutality for example – to psychological manipulative propaganda. ‘Act as if you have the virus!’ Which essentially means act as though you are insane!
No doubt many of you have seen this poster on buses, trains and in magazines. While the more sceptical and questioning among us will dismiss such blatant psyops as propaganda, at the same time there have been millions more already terrified people whose fear has been further reinforced by it.
Subliminal
All psyops are subliminal. Subliminal advertising, an integral aspect of psyops, was banned in cinemas decades ago for marketing and selling products to the audience. As with the most ferocious military assaults, the intent of psyops is an overwhelming saturation of the victim’s comprehension to a point where they cannot grasp what is happening.
Visual
All types of psyops work on the unethical basis of manipulation and gaslighting. In World War One, the Ministry Of Defence used posters of a British Army officer, Lord Kitchener, proclaiming ‘Your country needs you!’. This played on the patriotic feelings of the youth of the day, giving them a feeling of belonging and involvement in a larger world than their own. Thousands of young men were led to their deaths.
Auditory
None of us are strangers to the government mantra “Stay Home. Protect lives.” This has reinforced compliance by endless repetition on the radio.
Effects of psyops
Behavioural change due to psyops takes place gradually undermining one’s own capacity for cognitive analysis together with an insinuative feeling of fear. It also employs ‘gaslighting’ – an extreme form of emotional abuse that leads the recipient to doubt their own sanity and grasp of reality.
Psyops have a damaging and exhausting effect on those unconsciously trying to make any critical analysis of what’s happening Trying to make sense of the incomprehensible! Those accepting the messages will suffer more due to a created reliance on fearmongering to tell them what to do and in a state of unquestioning obedience and belief.
The British Government’s use of psyops as a means of control
Over the past year, psychological operations by the British government’s propaganda campaign have aimed to frighten the population into compliance using intensive mass advertising. The most perverse, so far, being ‘Act as if you have the virus!’
Highly paid government psychologists have ample resources to work out which brainwashing techniques are the most effective. Because of their deceptive nature, understanding psyops isn’t easy, but realising its pernicious nature is not difficult. Psyops cohabitates with propaganda. One cannot function without the other.
The destruction caused by psyops
If any other public sector, other than government, were to deliberately employ psychological agencies to manipulate thoughts and behaviour the way the British government is doing today, they’d be reported to safeguarding for malpractice. Government psyops have been instrumental in the destruction of our economy, scared people from getting diagnosed for illnesses, and will ultimately cause far more deaths than the virus. Psyops leave a trail of destruction including people’s capacity to interpret reality.
Psyops’ criminal intent to inflict harm and mental illness
Along with incredible economic destruction, Johnson’s oligarchy is knowingly creating mass mental illness and suicides. It’s criminal because it was designed to do you mental and physical harm. Psyops is intended to hit everyone, including children, and to destroy their enquiring minds by fear.
If, eventually, criminal proceedings take place against what the Government has inflicted on us, the use of criminal psyops to harm people through compliance should make up a large part of the prosecution. Government using any form of subliminal applied psychological manipulation as a means of controlling thinking, actions and behaviour, can only be construed as criminal. It’s not dissimilar to an overwhelming military assault designed to destroy an individual’s cognitive capacities to the point where one is unable to realise what is happening. The intensity of state psyops is designed to negate your abilities as free agents.
Dealing with psyops
Please don’t search for answers, logic or reasoning in the wicked narratives of those employing psychological operations. But do realise what is happening, how it’s meant to affect you, and how you must avoid it.
Interpreting the incomprehensible is frustrating, pointless, exhausting and a road to nowhere. Trying to analyse psyops (also known as brainwashing!) can itself become a problem. Putting irrational and manipulative propaganda under a microscope is not only exhausting but can lead to nuancing whereby you create semi-positive images and give the psychological operations some unwarranted credibility.
Understanding psyops can be exhausting but revealing of the criminal intentions of government propaganda. The best or only method of keeping psyops at bay is non-compliance and non-conformism. You must simply reject any and all government propaganda. If everyone did this its system of control would not function. In avoiding psyops you are protecting your own mental faculties from further harm and defending the mental health of others.
Remember
Psyops propaganda is nothing more than manipulation of your behaviour, control by fear, and a nullifying of your own sensory mechanisms with the sole intention of breaking down your ability to reason.
Beware!
Soon there will be more people in government watching our every move than people! Slight exaggeration of course but in terms of MONEY SPENT they way outspend us. Public Health ENGLAND flew 5 million air miles in 2019. Good eh? Another useless, pointless multi billion pound QUANGO that does sweet FA and ‘forgot’ to organise stocks of PPE, one of the simplest tasks. Too busy going on jollies around the globe.
New book out
https://thinkscotland.org/2021/05/the-shocking-role-of-fear-in-managing-the-pandemic/
Thank you Mary for the advice.
I had a look at Jon Dobinson`s “review” of the book and that in itself is a necessary “pre-read”
To be honest I don`t look forward to the actual chapter and verse revalations in the book – If I wasn`t sufficiently fearful before, I am now.Because we are so far down the road, I cannot see how we are ever going to enmesh ourselves and reverse the situation.
Just one thought he mentions that “nudge” has been at work for a long time before flowering so fully in Covid, Has the author of the book thought of looking into that period.? I`ve always felt “if you want to know where you are going, it`s always worth a look at where you have been”
and why do I keep on thinking Common Purpose, Common Purpose, Common Purpose?
New book out : https://thinkscotland.org/2021/05/the-shocking-role-of-fear-in-managing-the-pandemic/
The most terrifying and important thing that has happened during the last year is the use of psychological manipulation by the Government. Barely touched on until Saturday’s articles in the Telegraph and Express. It should be a central topic of debate. I think Talk Radio did a bit on Monday. This truly is 1984 in reality.
What puzzles me is ; the MSM are not on our side so why have they chosento reveal all this? At this moment in time, when TPTB still want us terrified?? I would have thought they would have kept it quiet for longer. Or was the news so widespread that the cat was out of the bag anyway?
Sensed it was about to come out and got their oar in first Mary? State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth is a best seller on Amazon.
Thank you Adam Scarborough, a very interesting and thought provoking exposition
But all the more alarming is the realisation that there must be already such a small portion of the population who are already resisting or even prepared to resist and among us Deniers and Civil Disobedienceists I am sure there are those who have not recognised all the psyops thrown at them and are already partly under the spell
(speaking personally I have had two vaccinations and always wear my mask `reluctantly` where required – not because I believe in what I know is nonsense, but not to upset those with me. Oh! and I am developing calluses on my elbows)
As the author says this was probably an EU ploy “it was necessary to be a good European” “at the heart of Europe” “not to miss the European train” and some German Chancellor is said to have castigated John Major at Maastricht ” Shon, Shon, you do not know how to contwoll your peepul”
Well Boris and Co sure have cottoned on to how to contwoll his peepull now!
I know this article should be passed round to our friends and published every which way and it should be acknowledged as one of the “articles of faith or association” of the ” League of United Deniers” and “the Disobediencing Friends of Deniers” etc.
But to get anywhere there is a massive education initiative necessary, perhaps we should start in the schools and learn the lessons to be drawn from the Korean war and related modern developments. (Ah! but first you have to educate the teachers and they don`t want to know the meaning or existence of `Fake News` – never mind, mind bending psyops oops ! don`t go down that road it`s anti authority)
Thank you, Roger.
It’s interesting checking out the background of the various authors.
“Guest authors” can’t be checked but sound
dodgy.
O.K. Sherlock, this particular guest author is Adam Scarborough (RMN Dip Psych), it says so at the head of the article. But we get the gist, people ‘hiding’ behind pseudonyms eh!
It’s not a pseudonym but Harry Again certainly is. Perhaps Harry could reveal his credentials?
Trolls wouldn’t be trolls if they identified themselves!
Nothing has changed
if you’re healthy and under 60 yu wont die..
It is the nature of man to have a day off sick., fishing.
It is the Behavioural Insights Team I find particularly gobsmacking. There they are bold as brass with a basic search. Telling us their functions. That includes signing up to world government.
As the author says subliminal advertising was banned decades ago from Cinemas. It continued in other ways but was relatively harmless compared to what is going on now.
Frederica – that’s about spot on I think.
If we had been reading about this relating to any of the old Communist Bloc countries behind the Iron Curtain, nobody would be surprised or shocked. We would feel pity for those enduring such torment and thankful that we were living in a more enlightened and free country!
We were warned about the coming ‘terror’. Gorbachev (I think it was!) said that the West was re-creating the old USSR in the manifestation of the European Union. And so it came to pass! But now that has expanded far beyond Europe and into the long held bastions of the Western World as a whole. America is afflicted – now who would have considered that to be a possibility a couple of decades ago? A cabal of global criminals has mounted a coup and it is so far proving to be difficult to unseat its progress. Our own government is on board with it all as well as the majority of the politicians who would normally be expected to ‘oppose’ it.
Brainwashing of human beings is the last stop on the road to total destruction. It is difficult to see how this will be stopped now without a cataclysmic event kicking off because democracy has been trampled into the mud of criminal greed for power!
Doesn’t say much for Boris Johnson or our government generally, they belong behind bars if not worse, criminals the lot of them. Not that we didn’t already know this but this article will help to wake up those that are still asleep.
An interesting and necessary article which should be published far and wide; of course government puppets in the media will do their best to prevent that.
“You must simply reject any and all government propaganda.” Together with the rest of my present household I already do but far too many simply cower and comply. I wonder if we will ever get back to normality…
Jack what you and I would recognise as ‘normal’ does not exist in the minds of those who currently hold sway in this Country. In the minds of our ‘tormentors‘ normal’ is what ‘they’ decree it should be. That can and does change according to their daily agenda. That agenda changes because otherwise a semblance of ‘order’ would be likely to creep in! They cannot allow any sense of ‘order’ to prevail because that would run counter to the requirement to keep the population in an ever changing system of ‘rules and regulations’. Confusion leads to demoralisation and despair and that in turn leads to compliance. This has been the pattern of operation ever since this whole COVID scam kicked off!
At this moment I’m wondering how soon the next Clampdown will happen. I managed today to arrange a bit of ‘normalcy’ into my life but it depends on how resourceful my friend is. He could now ‘get round’ the next lock down by being my ‘carer’, so of course has to visit!
Vernon Coleman’s guess is early Sept. with more turns of the screw.
Don’t the compliant sheeple realise that if they dont push back now, hard, this is what the rest of their lives are going to be.