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Editor’s notice: Some extent I’ve been harping on loads currently is how we in the USA have been divided by politics and the media currently. Many have become callous and lost their humanity. Individuals have begged for laws and rulings against others however don’t like these legal guidelines and rulings when it later applies to them. The media is adamantly promoting division. Advertisers are abandoning customers to abide by agendas. Our own government is labeling many people as “terrorists” for the straightforward act of disagreeing.
It’ll ring acquainted once you learn this text as Selco shares how the media manipulated the inhabitants of the Balkans fanning the flames of hatred and worry. To paraphrase, if we don’t be taught from historical past, we’ll repeat the errors, time and again. Don’t let your self be manipulated by half-truths and hate-mongering propaganda.
If you’d like a fair MORE thorough have a look at Balkanization and media manipulation, check out Selco’s webinar on how it all went down. ~ Daisy
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Media is a really highly effective and useful gizmo and we as preppers lean on it in making our opinions and selections.
Many survival methods, bug-out routes, survival storages, and whatnot are constructed on what we discovered based mostly on data that the media gave us.
I belong to a era that when believed, “if it was not on TV it didn’t occur.” In the present day there are numerous extra selections, however in essence, it comes right down to the truth that whether it is properly packaged and repeated for sufficient variety of occasions, many of the people are gonna imagine it.
Due to the methods of recent life, we are likely to need data very quick and correct, and the accent is on quick. We would like “flashy” and helpful, and the accent is on flashy.
There are numerous extra selections, sources, and opinions for the way we get data and from what media – however nonetheless, not too many issues have modified. We’re nonetheless very straightforward to govern via the media.
We start to hoard data eager to know extra, however what we get is quite a lot of junk, with occasional items of gold. Additionally, usually data is planted there to be able to “transfer public opinion” within the path that somebody highly effective desires. It’s pure propaganda.
How the media labored proper earlier than SHTF
As I stated, in my time (weeks/months prior SHTF) the state of affairs was a bit totally different, due to the variety of media retailers out there, however quite a lot of issues will be identified that look much like what we see in the present day.
The methods how individuals get manipulated via the media/data in all probability by no means modified for ages, it merely obtained extra refined, and we individuals get extra “plugged in” or just extra depending on it.
Now after I look again, it is vitally straightforward to see that we had been fooled by many of the media and pushed in actions that weren’t good, however in that point it was invisible to us. The media manipulated individuals, bombarding us with worry and hate.
It’s onerous now, to sum up how all that appears, how media did the job, however some factors will be described.
They heated up the state of affairs.
We had been bombarded rigorously with a great deal of details about modifications that had been coming to us.
It was not solely concerning the political system. It was additionally concerning the significance of our opinions. After a while of this, people merely began to imagine that our opinion may make a change, or that our opinion was essential.
After that, we had been “fed” via the media that there have been nice variations between us, and that the variations had been truly so massive that they may be an issue for our future life on this area.
In actuality, you possibly can level out enormous variations between any teams of individuals, or political choices anyplace on this planet and nonetheless, that doesn’t imply it wants to finish up in blood. However we had been led to imagine that blood was the one possibility for fixing variations.
They elevated the worry.
The following stage – and it was offered in a means that was so intimidatingly logical – was worry.
Concern of others, worry of variations, worry of those that needed various things from us.
Media can put nice quantities of worry in you, by cautious and really refined hints. Generally, you don’t even notice you might be in the course of that course of (of intimidation) since sooner or later you wakened and felt afraid
Concern is a really highly effective motivator, and below the affect of worry, you will be compelled to do quite a lot of issues.
Everyone knows that worry may also save your life, so it isn’t all the time a foul factor. However I’m speaking concerning the worry that the system might set up in you over a time period, to be able to manipulate you.
Each system on this planet performs with that, roughly.
It could actually are available many kinds. In my case, it was about worry of those that had been totally different than me. In your case, it may very well be the worry of dropping some rights, or comparable.
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They elevated the hate.
Hate usually comes with worry. And it comes once more usually as an answer to worry.
Simply earlier than S hit the fan in my case, the buildup of hate was so dense that you would really feel it within the air.
And as soon as actual hate is there (blended with worry) you will be manipulated in such wild issues that you would not have believed potential.
Hate additionally will be good motivation, however solely in very small doses, as a result of it “spends” you very quick. What is de facto extra essential right here is the truth that basic hatred clouds your judgment.
Having clouded judgment is completely in opposition to any mindset of being a prepper.
At any time when you end up in a state of affairs once you really feel that you just typically hate teams of individuals, choices, or states, cease for a second and undergo severe psychological verify: Are you being manipulated by somebody and what are the explanations for that?
I witnessed many occasions harmless individuals being killed as a result of a public opinion was fashioned that “it’s OK”, and it was scary how briskly that opinion was fashioned.
Because the violence and worry progressed, it was simpler to be much more manipulated by the media.
You must use widespread sense.
I’m not saying that it’s best to belief nobody and sit at house with tin foil hat, however watch out what you belief in relation to media.
Use widespread sense and attempt to construct your individual community. Discover teams of people that share your view of life.
Large media gamers have their very own agenda often, and that’s the reason why they’re massive. They know their job superb.
A part of the answer is undeniable fact that in the present day, we have now enormous selections in relation to data. The web gives each man the chance to have a look at and provide opinions. After all, that additionally will be a part of the issue as a result of usually there may be an excessive amount of data.
Search for an individual, not a system.
I feel I used to be one thing like 11 years previous after we had a college occasion within the identify of one of many massive battles of WWII.
There have been flags, an orchestra, speeches from native communists, and we children with small flags.
The speeches had been concerning the noble struggle, heroic acts, like to the motherland, patriotism…
Along with politicians, on the stage was standing an previous man, a survivor of the battle, a person who held highest navy ornament of the WWII. He was a hero of the individuals.
After a while, a politician stated, “Now we’re gonna ask our hero of the individuals to inform us few phrases about that heroic battle.”
The previous man took the microphone and stated, “Properly, son, it was a whole and absolute shitstorm”
In that second politician took the mic and gently pulled the man away, saying into the microphone, “We’re sorry, our hero wants some relaxation…”
We had been completely shocked by the previous man phrases. He was supposed to discuss sacrifices, the intense way forward for our nation, how all of us must be communists, larger causes, and so on.
However in actual fact, the previous hero merely went out on stage and spoke the actual, chilly fact. It was bloody hell, and for him, in that second, fancy phrases weren’t essential.
I feel he was too massive a legend to fret about what he was saying.
Additionally, I feel that occasion was the beginning of my doubts in any system. It was a very small begin, nevertheless it was bolstered in years that got here later.
The purpose of this story will not be about conflict heroes or communist societies or the truth that the US is totally different from my area.
The purpose of the story is to search for actual individuals all the time and to type your individual circles in buying data. Don’t simply take heed to massive media.
The true fact about how the struggle was you would hear from that conflict hero, not from politicians and media.
Be warned.
For a few years I didn’t watch TV or take heed to the radio. I select my factors of knowledge the on the web, and nonetheless, I do discover myself generally forming opinions based mostly on some ridiculous data. It’s in human nature to behave like that generally.
However be warned. It turns into harmful once you begin to act based mostly on utterly flawed data, or to type your entire survival setup on it.
What are your ideas?
Do you see the similarities? Is that this a long-term playbook? How do you suppose individuals can fight this technique to divide us?
Let’s talk about it within the feedback part.
About Selco:
Selco survived the Balkan conflict of the 90s in a metropolis below siege, with out electrical energy, operating water, or meals distribution. He’s at the moment accepting students for his next physical course here.
In his on-line works, he provides an inside view of the truth of survival below the harshest circumstances. He opinions what works and what doesn’t, tells you the onerous classes he realized, and shares how he prepares in the present day.
He by no means stopped studying about survival and preparedness because the conflict. No matter what occurs, likelihood is you’ll by no means expertise excessive conditions as Selco did. However you’ve gotten the possibility to be taught from him and the way he confronted dying for months.
Actual survival will not be romantic or idealistic. It’s brutal, onerous and unfair. Let Selco take you into that world.
