How "Who controls the narrative controls the world" works ...

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How "Who controls the narrative controls the world" works ...

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I think one reason the right got so powerful in the 80s and 90s is because they defensively picked up on the notion that using pundits to redefine the national language through a steady stream of radio broadcasts was effective on people and would be for some time before a slow conscious resistance to that worked its way into our understanding.

My guess is that during the Viet Nam protests of the 70s, that political faction realized they needed to stop reports from being able to report on matters without triggering the population. They needed to "train" people to hear the news in a certain way so that any attempts in journalism to unify people could be made into a paranoia and identified as an attack.

So the national right, the supremacist colonialist narrative that needs to hide from its own population how aggressive and violent their own government is, was able to push the meaning of countless words in the direction they wanted. Collectivism became the same as socialism became the same as communism, and so on. Maybe some words that were previously even neutral like "political" could be used to trigger people in a particular way.

The so called "left", the official "left" it seems, picked up on that and tried to calmly reason with people and explain how the definitions were shifting, and to this day even radical left revolutionaries on alternative media do that. They spend all their time explaining what the pseudo-blue collar pundits just did ... which is not a natural way of communicating.

It's psychopathic for the "right" to weaponize the public language but it's a headache for the "left" to constantly try to educate on the particulars of what was just confused, blurred or shifted.

So weaponizing language is one way to control the narrative, without laying an active finger on every conversation. And by making language into an offensive tactical position it robs us of the ability to speak to each other in peace because we are constantly trying to clarify and re-explain. Seems to me social media is going through some culture conflict in this right now at the same time that everyone is realizing what bad definitions were seeded into the language "the enemy" (whatever that is) has moved to A.I. programs and algorithms that everyone uses daily on their phones and smart devices.

This is another reason I think it might be useful for us to develop some language on WonderingForum together about all sorts of subjects. Just the way we use language together and model better conversation in text could help us inoculate participants against bad language that has been deliberately seeded into the public dialogue by pundits and now technology corporations and their contractors (and most likely spooky "collaborations" with Tavistock, et al)

I don't think it's a matter of constant re-explaining in audio but it could be that understanding and documenting language shifts here can help us develop a means of naturally communicating with those awarenesses. And this might be a very effective defense against the barrage of language manipulation.

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Finally, a great description of the house of mirrors in a recent history (within 50 years, two generations!) context. How much can we keep track of? 7 generations perspective sometimes has generation 4 sandwiched by 1,2,3 and 5,6,7. Maybe that's the best we can do. I will need to study this post a bit more to make any kind of prescient response beyond this first blush one. Golly, thanks for keeping this real!

If we went to the WWII generation (my parents) we'd meetup with the latest generational genocidal outbreak. Apparently we are due for another and are trying through the use of limited scale wars AKA low intensity conflicts to relieve some tension to avoid the apocalypse.

We are also just getting warmed up to the chaos period described by emergent theorists which will have us going bonkers for at least another 80 years before folks get tired of the maelstrom and pick a new defining context, put a stake in the ground with it at the center, and try to go on living for 250 years before too many new facts destroy the ability to recognize that context as reasonable any longer. 500 year cycles tracked by some for the last 3000 years believe it or not.

For my part, I hope race isn't the organizing idea that gets codified again like it has been for the last handful of centuries. Maybe we can find a new economics system away from the money idea. What kind of meta narrative can carry multicultural reality, multiverse reality, embrace spirituality?

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What if we became a society where 'control' was understood to be something else? We talk about 'narrative' and how it does (and it does) control how we are as an interactive group of social beings. But, but, ... what if this was not what we are becoming? What would it look like not be controlled? What if humanity's children were not being raped, maimed, incested, insulted, abused, confused and overruled? What would our world look like? Why is CONTROL accepted as an archetypal cognitive that we endlessly allow to happen ongoing from generation to generation?

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OriogenSpirit wrote:
Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:47 pm
But, but, ... what if this was not what we are becoming? What would it look like not be controlled? What if humanity's children were not being raped, maimed, incested, insulted, abused, confused and overruled? What would our world look like? Why is CONTROL accepted as an archetypal cognitive that we endlessly allow to happen ongoing from generation to generation?
Brilliant question. It happens to be in the field of what I have been studying for the past year or so. About the different cognition we as humans use to function and communicate with fellow humans. I may want to start a topic for that in the near future.

To answer your question—it could look like this:
My relationship with my parents has always felt like—they are my advisors—not my controllers by any means. I highly respect and value what they say because they give me logical reasons for why I should or shouldn’t do something—because they know ultimately it’s not up to them.
Sure they could take my phone away (which I wouldn’t mind to be honest) or not let me see my friends that aren’t them, but I’m smart enough to find my way around silly things like that and they know it.
Quite frankly I can’t imagine them, “grounding,” me. Not because I wasn’t disciplined as a child (I certainly was) but because of the mutual respect we have as a family.

One time I was irritated (well many times haha)—I didn’t know what at exactly—I was just angry, my parents caught onto this and thought, “I think we should go love on her and see if she needs to talk about something.” I had a good cry about what I was mad about and felt validated and important to them.

As opposed to what they could’ve done which is take my attitude as me disrespecting them and punishing me.
What this achieves is the kid now doesn’t respect their parent—because he/she is inevitably going to find a way around the punishment . . . and the next thing you know he/she builds a massive wall between them. It saddens me to think of that as a standard parenting strategy.

A world where love and understanding outweighs control . . . wouldn’t that be something.

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