Tools that have been used to brainwash and Influence people through the media

I was a little weary about posting this list that I found but the people with the means to use these methods have been doing so for years, so I feel this list should help people identify how they are being brainwashed through the media and divert themselves away from it. Have you felt that any of these methods have been used against you?


1. The key to truly effective brainwashing is to work at people’s most fundamental awareness. Shape them at the neurological level so they develop the faculties to take your input and call it “thinking for myself.” Enable them to stop thinking.

2. Limit any and all faculties for self-awareness and self-sensing. Destroy instinct and intuition. Actively and endlessly encourage external awareness. Make people dependent on your external input for as many decisions as possible.

3. Speed up messages so that the pace and rhythm of information is disorienting and visually biased.

4. Condition people to being bombarded with hundreds of thousands of signals a day. Teach them to attend to this stream of information and to call it Reality. Never let them ask what “reality” is.

5. Framing is everything. Decide what you want people to believe and make sure that any choices you give them are within a framework which assures you of your result. This is called the Illusion of Choice. “Do you want to sweep the floor before or after dinner?” Repeat this formula for economic systems, politicians, news stories, competing product brands and entertainment.

6. Appeal to the lowest common denominator. Make sure that all shows model conflict resolution of people with an emotional and intellectual maturity no greater than that of a six year old. Make it funny so no one notices.

7. Keep people passive. Encourage the Couch Potato Alpha Wave Escape Plan as the healing elixir for all that ails.

8. Don’t make people think. Their days are hard enough as is. Bypass the need for opinion making by giving people ready-made opinions. Do it as though you don’t have a conscience – they are probably too stupid to make their own decisions anyway.

9. Ensure that there are no ongoing storylines with meaning or purpose beyond immediate sensory stimulation. Avoid universal themes as much as possible. Make absolutely certain there is no cultural, societal or global story or mythology present that conflicts with the myths of comfort and consumption.

10. Never encourage responsibility, or so much as suggest that humans could be involved in co-creating their future and the realities in which they reside.

11. Encourage group-sanctioned individuality only. By making ‘individuality” the new conformity you are generating a powerful illusion of free choice.

12. Sensationalize the superficial.

13. Keep information bytes infinitesimally small. Promote Attention Deficit Disorder. Several decades of television have already set this in motion.

14. Repetition is key. Repeat important messages as often as possible.

15. Repetition is key.

16. Repetition is key.

17. Bypass rationality by any means possible. People don’t need logic to accept information. Belief is emotional. Always remember: WAR=PEACE.

18. Remember –- two half-truths make up a whole truth.

19. Demonize self-knowledge technology of all kinds. Throw around words like “cult” and “brainwashing.” Marginalize anyone involved in such pursuits.

20. Keep old models of consciousness alive and well. If you can get away with referring to people’s states as being phlegmatic or sanguine instead of programmable and intentional, do it.

21. Keep people’s attention on what really matters. Emphasize what’s wrong as much as possible.

22. Always give the impression that Everything Is Under Control – but just barely so – hammer into the populace the idea that their greatest fear could strike at any moment.

23. Teach people that they are their thoughts and emotions. Reinforce this by teaching them to feel bad about their ideas, and to feel bad about feeling bad. Remember: Identify, identify, identify –- this will widen the empty void inside of them that only shopping can cure.

I think you covered just about everything there my friend.

Good job compiling that list.

I find the best way you can actually raise a free-thinking child is to keep them away from television, let them on the internet, let them listen to radio, but don't turn them into drones using the TV for f**ks' sake.

I never watch TV, and rarely ever bothered with it as a child. I'm a robotics engineer now, and I readily notice problems and act on them WAY before most of my counterparts even get an inkling of it.

Look at things through history. Our GREAT minds never watched TV. Sure, they invented it... but how many inventors and revolutionaries do you know of who stare blankly at a screen all day? ... exactly.

Thks, what really botheres me is how much I see this techniques used on reputable media stations like cnn..This happens almost to a point where I get headaches.

Count yourself lucky that you are one of the ones who can see it.

A big problem alot of us (people who can spot the propaganda) have, is when we do see it, there's nothing we can do about it. If we try to let others see it, we spend most of our time arguing with them. Once they finally notice it themselves, it's too late, the media has already started on a new topic.

Effectively, we waste time by trying to get people to see.

(If you understand psychology a little read on...)
What you need to do is find a way to negatively re-enforce the medias messages in the minds of the viewers. Use association. Get the viewers to HATE the use of words the media often uses in propaganda.

1. Watch the news, pick out words that most commonly arise in propaganda messages.
2. Find a way to negatively re-enforce those words or phrases.
3. Get the message out to as many people as possible, without getting yourself locked up in the process.
4. Let the media do the rest. As soon as they mention those key words or phrases, the public who you have affected will get a sensation of disgust toward the message the media is trying to deliver. Hence, they will automatically disagree with them.

This of course won't work on anyone who can spot propaganda, but you don't have to worry about them, they're already on your side.