If you can get people to believe that Scotsmen wear saris, you can get them to believe almost anything.
WOMEN IN SARIS (left), MAN IN KILT (right)
According to recent research into the “illusory truth effect“,
it is relatively easy to brainwash people into believing a lie even
after they know the truth. This is done simply by repeating the lie
endlessly until it erases the truth formerly impressed on their minds.
Let’s take an example.
You happen to know what a “kilt” is. It is a tartan skirt worn by men in Scotland. (See above,
right). You also know what a “sari” is. It is a long graceful dress worn by women in India. (See above,
left). Now
imagine you are told that men in Scotland don’t really wear kilts, that
they actually wear saris. All this time, you are told, you have been
getting it wrong. You have been badly misinformed. Men in Scotland, you
are told for the umpteenth time, actually wear
saris.
Well, according to the latest research, quite a few people are going
to start doubting that Scotsmen wear kilts and are going to end up
believing that Scotsmen actually wear saris.
The important thing is to make sure the lie is repeated so often that
repetition has the effect of a hypnotic suggestion on their minds.
There is an old Latin proverb:
Repetitio est mater studiorum
(‘Repetition is the mother of studies’). The best way to learn anything
is to hammer it into the mind through constant repetitions.
Maybe the young and impressionable will be the first to fall for the
lie that Scotsmen wear saris. A minority of stubborn diehards will
continue to believe the truth — that Scotsmen wear kilts — but they will
now have to contend with an increasing number of strident fanatics who
keep telling them they’re “crazy” for believing in the “canard” that
Scotsmen wear kilts. Believing Scotsmen wear saris has now become
politically correct. If you don’t believe that Scotsmen wear saris you
are now in trouble.
If you dare to go on suggesting that Scotsmen wear kilts, you will
now face intense hostility: you will be ostracized, you will be
dismissed from your job, you will be fined for insulting Scotsmen by
using the hated k-word, you will be put in prison for “sari denial”, and
you will finally be packed off to a mental institution for psychiatric
treatment.
To force an entire population into accepting the lie that Scotsmen
wear saris requires a step-by-step approach. It requires media control
and mindbending propaganda on a monumental scale. The initiators of the
Big Lie, the core propagandists, will of course be fully aware that they
are promoting a Big Lie. But they will need to believe that the Big Lie
is
necessary and good and serves a noble end: that the end
justifies the means. As time goes on, many of these original Lie
promoters will come to believe passionately in the validity of their
original Lie and see it as an
alternative truth. (See
The Big Lie)
Organized Lie Promotion will now proceed in ten
methodical stages which we may call the
Ten Steps of Mind Manipulation:
1. Repetition of the lie on a daily basis in thousands of different
newspapers, books, magazines, learned journals, TV documentaries,
movies, and internet forums. Exposed to this deluge of daily repeated
lies, the human mind will eventually capitulate and come to believe the
lie.
2. A parallel refusal to allow promoters of the truth equal access
to the media and provide them with a space for reasonable debate. The
public must on no account be allowed to consider the possibility that
the New Truth is actually the Big Lie dressed up in new clothes. All
opportunities for considering the pros and cons, for evaluating evidence
objectively, for deciding on the merits and demerits of conflicting
hypotheses, will be flatly denied to the general public. For the Big Lie
to take root in the collective mind, access to the truth must be
severely restricted, denied, and finally outlawed.
3. To promote the lie and discredit the truth, the truth must
henceforth be labeled a “conspiracy theory” and its promoters dismissed
as brain-damaged kooks.
4. The next step is to criminalize the truth by labeling it “hate
speech”, suggesting that any expression of this truth will lead to
public disorder and death. Truth telling now becomes “terrorism”.
5. Parallel with this process of vilification of so-called
“conspiracy theories” is the systematic fabrication of false,
far-fetched, and genuinely disreputable conspiracy theories by
government agents. The more prolific and absurd these fabricated
theories, and the more people who can be persuaded to accept these
theories, the better all round. The truth is now murked and buried under
a mound of deliberately invented lies. This is all part and parcel of
the black propaganda process which depends heavily on organized
disinformation.
6. Since there is no way to prevent
Thought Crime—i.e.,
political dissidence, “radicalization”, and rejection of politically
correct lies masquerading as the truth—the next step is invariably
mockery, ridicule, and
ad hominem attacks on those few valiant
souls who persist in questioning the prevailing mendacity disguised as
truth. The dissidents will be invited onto radio and TV programs, or
interviewed in the press, only to find themselves pilloried there and
made into laughing stocks.
7.
Character assassination. The Truthtellers will now find
themselves being misquoted, or quoted out of context, with entirely
false stories fabricated about them, amounting to character
assassination. They will become objects of state surveillance and
everything seedy or unwholesome about them, from old compromising emails
to explicit photographs taken in their youth, will be presented to the
public and help to destroy their reputations.
8.
Organized outrage is the next step. All politically
incorrect statements made by the freethinkers—statements that would have
been universally approved of by our ancestors or in no way disconcerted
them unduly—will now be met by a wall of organized outrage. We have now
passed from ridicule to intimidation. The political dissident is no
longer a laughing stock, he is now a threat to public order. He must be
silenced, he must apologize, he must grovel at the feet of his New
Masters and beg for forgiveness.
9. Punishment is the next step for those who question the prevailing
wisdom: ostracism, loss of employment, banning of their books, stiff
fines for expressing their views, death threats,
physical violence, and
imprisonment. Heretics were once burnt at the stake. We are more civilized. We send our
heretics to Germany
to be imprisoned for “hate speech”. Others of darker complexion we pack
off to torture camps to endure sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation at
the hands of
female degenerates in our employment, or
waterboarding them 183 times in order to extract hidden facts which seldom emerge.
It does not occur to us for a moment that our civilized torturers are infinitely more evil than the tragic victims they torture.
10. The use of bribery and blackmail in enforcing the new lie and silencing truth tellers.
Let’s recapitulate that. This is important, because these ten
principles ought to be kept in mind at all times by truth seekers who
might otherwise be sucked into the all-enveloping network of Systematic
Lies. Here, in summary and for future reference, are the Ten Steps.
THE TEN STEPS OF MIND MANIPULATION
1. Repetition of the lie ad infinitum.
2. Maximum media exposure to the lie and minimum media exposure to the truth.
3. Implanting the suggestion that the truth is an elaborate lie by labeling it a “conspiracy theory”.
4. At the same time, suggesting
that the truth is obnoxious by calling it “hate speech”. Truth telling
allegedly leads to public disorder and the death of certain targeted
individuals, and so the expression of unpopular truths must be
classified as “terrorism”.
5. The systematic fabrication of false conspiracy theories by
paid agents, in order to create maximum obfuscation and bring the truth
into disrepute by associating it with a plethora of discredited ideas
and far-fetched, ludicrous lies.
6. Exposure of the truth to mockery and contempt.
7. Character assassination of
truth tellers by a variety of underhand means, including misquoting
them, telling lies about them, and digging up the dirt on them.
8. Organized outrage at any expression of the truth by a public figure, i.e., systematic intimidation.
9. Severe punishment for telling the truth.
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In regard to kilts and saris and their
connection to Holocaust denial, the number one heresy of our day, here
is an instructive quote from
Wikipedia:
“At first, the truth effect was believed to occur only when individuals are highly uncertain about a given statement.
This assumption was challenged by the results of a 2015 study by Lisa
K. Fazio, Nadia M. Brasier, B. Keith Payne, and Elizabeth J. Marsh.
Published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the study
suggested that the truth effect can have an impact on participants who
actually knew the correct answer to begin with, but who were swayed to
believe otherwise through the repetition of a falsehood.
For example, when participants encountered on multiple occasions the
statement ‘A sari is the name of the short plaid skirt worn by Scots,’
some of them were likely to come to believe it was true, even though
these same people were able to correctly answer the question ‘What is
the name of the short pleated skirt worn by Scots?'”
Like Orwell’s Winston Smith, after he was thoroughly
brainwashed, you can eventually be duped into believing that two plus
two equals five — and that men in Scotland wear saris.
“We believe that 2 + 2 = 5 and that Scotsmen wear saris —
and anyone who DENIES this should be EXTERMINATED!”
‘Sari denial’ and ‘Holocaust denial’ follow identical trajectories.
Just as you can brainwash an entire population into believing that
Scotsmen wear saris (not kilts), and that two plus two equals five, so
too you can brainwash an entire population into believing that six
million Jews died in gas chambers during the Holocaust.
All it needs is constant repetition — day after day after day — and the threat of severe punishment for rejecting the New Lie.
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