How is variety different from diversity?

Dump out a bag of m&ms.

Give them only the brown ones. Keep all the others for yourself.

"There you go. Variety."

They're easy to back into a corner since they don't have any real information but then they just get pissed and start shouting that everything I said is bullshit,

Anger is also a default mode. You get them to that stage, and then go one step further.

"Oh, yeah, how is it bullshit?"

Just keep repeating that until they bite.

Anger breaks the sloganeering-reaction cycle. Once thats broken its hard for them to reenter it on a dime, or in the same conversation.

From there you have them on the run, on the backfoot, "blue screened", and they'll try to fuddle through, and most of what you say will actually enter their brain unfiltered by them. They'll protest still because of cognitive dissonance, but thats a separate process from outright filtering and reacting.

The filtering and reacting is built on cognitive dissonance, but critically relies on short-circuiting it. The thought "I don't like this information", instead of competing with known information in the limbic system, is, through programming, substituted for rote response, shutting down thought or the competition of ideas.

So by breaking past the rote response, the sloganeering reflex, you hack your way back into the limbic system, to do information warfare with old fashion cogdis.

A big problem thats been talked about is the idea that demoralization is "permanent".

I think it's not. In fact I'm pretty certain of this.

It was called "permanent" at the time, because the weapon (demoralization propaganda) was so far ahead of anything we had to counter it.

But since, I've made a number of posts that lay out plausible tactics and hypothesis for doing just that: undoing demoralization.

I think what has happened is so many people have got used to hearing "demoralization is permanent", that they took it for granted that it was true, and stopped trying to innovate.

It would be absolutely valuable I think, in both the long and the short term, to start something like an information warfare working group or a psychological operations development lab.

Demoralization can be undone. Cheaply and effectively.

The very existence of it is acknowledged already by regime journalists: "We lose our minds all at once, but only regain our collective sanity one person at a time."

And my question is always this: How do we make it more than one person at a time? How do we make it faster and more effective ?

What is the process underlaying that return of sanity ?

Thats what I want to study. Thats what I want to know.

Psychology is a weapon. We must learn to use it, or the public falls behind the oligarchs, NGOs, and internationalists, in the new fifth generation model of warfare.