April 29, 2013

SOCIAL MANIPULATION TOOLS

Today, we are living in a mediatic and a globalized world. It´s almost impossible to find a place where we were totally conected with the enviroment., without " mediatic polution" around.



If you take a look around yourself, around your enviroment, probably, you will see a TV, a news paper, advertisement or a mobil phone with internet acces... Then, maybe you are being manipulated.

I have read an interesting article about mediatic manipulation tools, and I want to share it with you. I have made a selection about the more interesting ideas.



1 - Distraction Strategy.

It´s quite common and obvious.
They distract the people attention about essential problems such as the economic situation, politics trouble and social problems in general. They stray our attention with continues banals distractions and insignificant news. Mantain people busy, busy and busy.... without time to think about our real needs.
For example, It´s more easy be worry about a your football team, than be worry about the Spanish Policy situation.

2-Create problems and offer solutions.
Problem-Action-Solution.
It´s consist in create a problem, a new and inconfortable situation, and  people will demand new laws and action to solve it. Manipulators could get, laws, than people doesnt´s want before apperared this new problems.

3-Gradual Strategy.
To establish an inpopular laws or new policy decissions, the easier way to establish them, is gradually.
Society, will accept as well as adapt to drastic situations.

4- Treat people such as kids.
The way to inform society about Publicity or "trascendental news" is composed for a very simple vocabulary,
it´s narrated like a simple story, than everybody can understand easily. With arguments, intonation and characters aimed at childrens. Why? it´s because people react depends how they receive the information. If you inform the social population such as probably, his reaction would be like a group of kids, without critical meaning.

5- Emotions Vs Reflections

It´s clear. Manipulators always choose focus in emotional thoughts. The emotional aspect provoke a dead short in our brain to make decisions. It´s the way to avoid a critical and a racional analysis about anything. On the other hand, is the way to establish ideas, wishes, fears, behaviour... in our subconciuos.





From this Corner, I want to show you a picture. What do you see there? Who is the good? Who is the victim? It depends right? ;).   Share your opinions with me please ;).



PS - I want to say thank you very much to everyone who have told me,
"I like your Blog, I find it very usefull and interesting", thank you very much because it´s why I write. You motivate me to continue.

Source : Inspired in a Noam Chomsky article.



Good Luck ! ! ! 

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