• jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think the SPE is that good a reference, and also not super meaningful to this sort of case of Internet manipulation anyway. Look at the amount of points showing it was basically not a normal experiment but predetermined to act out how the PI wanted - in that wikipedia link.

    My understanding of MK Ultra was basically the government wasted a lot of money because of fear of missing out vs the Soviets. It didn’t accomplish anything.

    And subliminal marketing has been widely debunked to my knowledge. People thought it might do something, but experimentally it didn’t.

    I would have pointed to disinformation campaigns myself - there is research that implies it works.

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      1 year ago

      I was speaking of the genesis of these ideals, these were all taken by the likes of CA and other entities and refined. Interesting some of what was learned came from DJs and clubs as much ad it did old experiments.

      SPE shows exactly how when you alter a worldview how that person changes. It was extreme and unintended but it showed how powerful it can be when the subjects willingly accept the game.

      subliminal marketing in the form of showing single image frames was debuked, thats one of many techniques.

      thank you fight club