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Im not sure if this is the right sub, so please point me in the right direction if I'm in the wrong place.

I saw a post here on Poal (on the front page, I didn't look at the sub) a few days ago regarding a Soviet NKVD PsyOp designed to encourage dissenters to identify themselves by availing to controlled oppositional organizations throughout the USSR. In this way, dissenters who might otherwise be seen as patriots were unmasked and sent to gulags or killed.

Does anyone know the name of this program, or have information about how these programs work and their effectiveness? I'm genuinely interested in this as a topic.

Thanks for your time.

Im not sure if this is the right sub, so please point me in the right direction if I'm in the wrong place. I saw a post here on Poal (on the front page, I didn't look at the sub) a few days ago regarding a Soviet NKVD PsyOp designed to encourage dissenters to identify themselves by availing to controlled oppositional organizations throughout the USSR. In this way, dissenters who might otherwise be seen as patriots were unmasked and sent to gulags or killed. Does anyone know the name of this program, or have information about how these programs work and their effectiveness? I'm genuinely interested in this as a topic. Thanks for your time.

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it isnt what you say or do it is what it does. when designing media you make it have ideas or imagry not explicity stated.

like the elite in the hunger games looked pretty cool. that would be cool to have right?

or how when i tryed to watch dr strange the other day and the main man character hasa super typical bad attitude to a lady and its all super relatable; women watch that and identify with other men in their lives.

or like how netflix children shows acenuate genital regions or clothe the characters in what is imo more 'riskay'

another aspect of psyops is the meaning of words, including the responce they all may ellicit on the person. 'uptick' is a good example. the word is synonymous with stress/tension from news outlelts repeating it. i wish eminem would do a rap with it though.

anyways, how we talk is how we think. like how some ideas get entertained only because a sentence can be lego-ed together as such. its a seemingly endless game of word-play that can happen unless we look at things in cause and effect/analytical ways

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Carl Jung remarked words were psychic organisms in the beginning of some essay or another, but didn't expand on that concept. I wonder if as psychic organisms, words are subject to a life and evolution of their own outside the psyche, necessarily dependant on the environment and forced to grow and develop in ways they weren't intended.

That might be why, for example, John Adams considered himself a Liberal, but Liberals now in general think of him as far right. It's like the word has a place in time that as generations are further removed from its intended utterance, they are looking back and trying to describe the idea the word denotes while being too far away to see it well enough to describe it.

I guess that's the long way of saying I agree with you that 'how we talk is how we think.' It seems that the components of language have a direct relation to how we can make sense of the world. Further, it is my conviction that the constant degradation of language I see online and hear in conversation is a sure sign of ideological subversion.