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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Psywar: The Documentary on Psychological Warfare
- Thread starter QuanChi
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Looks interesting...IFL
Great post @QuanChi - My business is "perception management" as well. If one understands the how and why of the reality that over 95% of all decision making is done on a subconscious, emotional level, one can orchestrate a particular mix or blend of images, words and sounds (sometimes smell) to create, produce and control the "perception" of the person who the orchestrated "message" is directed upon. I describe my own particular "brand" of "perception management" as "shaping the future of reality." And we all know that "perception is reality."
Nefarious stuff in the wrong hands. Magical in the right hands. And profitable for either.
CurtOFD78
Legendary
Just finished watching the entire video. Very interesting to see and hear some things from a few different sources and perspectives. It does not contain anything that is necessarily new information, but it does outline the scope of how advertising (commercial and otherwise) is force fed to the American public to make us think this or that, buy this product, or believe in certain ideologies. Apparently, this mind control game has been going on for longer than I realized.
Everyone here should take the hour and thirty eight minutes and watch it.
Everyone here should take the hour and thirty eight minutes and watch it.
Can't sit still that long unless it's Civil War related.
Gonna needs cliffs or I'm just gonna assume it's the same old shit we all know to be true on this topic.
CurtOFD78
Legendary
I figured you had watched it based on your post about Reagan's comment on some shining city on a hill. That is referenced multiple times in this video. The video goes into more detail about the origins of propaganda in the United States and the various ways it's been used. Also talks about some of the men and women who have been influential in propaganda and advertising. The video makes a few interesting comments. Something about how people think they are "moving up" by purchasing this or that, but are really standing still and not moving up the social or economic ladder at all. That part I see all the time. Thankfully, that part does not affect me at all.
@Croot_Overlord you know how dangerous those branding and advertising sorcerers can be. It's scary. Perfectly normal people can be turned into consumer zombies and led like sheep to the slaughter.
Bump for later
PsyopVictim
Poster
This interest me greatly.
