The Art of Persuasion in the Social Imagination...

Persuasion is NOT Manipulation - Manipulation is coercion through force to get someone to do something that is not in their own interest.  

Persuasion is the art of getting people to do things that someone (social engineer/manufacturer/marketer/politician) thinks is for your own good and it would benefit those at the top as well who are usually those during the persuasion.

Have you ever been persuaded to do something that you may not have thought of doing or sought to do past/present/future? Many people have; and, some have without their knowledge as we have pointed out through the use of propaganda, subliminal messaging and through the use of herd mentality. 

Could the current crisis be a persuasive means to coral people together (get them in their homes scared) to get them on board with a greater agenda: top down engineered controlled thought and behavior program, a big brother prison society, a cashless society...  a global world order that those at the top thinks is for 'our' own good and even the good of the planet? It starts to appear as if this is the case or at least we can expect that something much bigger is on the horizon as we are being persuaded to think so. 

Why would there be such an agenda? Well, believe it or not...not everyone's social imagination is like yours exactly. It may seem that way... since you have a few things in common regarding 'rights'. But, this idea of 'rights' has been social engineered. That means that a group of people have brought into agreement through social contract. 

Though we may share in some ideas/thoughts/behaviors it does not mean they are exactly the same. So, a social contract is necessary to ensure that you/I can do this and not that. That's why we have government, that's why there are politicians, elections, declarations, constitutions, laws, ordinances etc.  Because, your social imagination is... its likely not exactly mine. 

Take the time to make an in-depth observation... sit in a parking lot at any Walmart or any Supermarket, or uptown deli and you will be amazed. There are plenty of 'low level' social imaginations milling about. You can see them milling about (or shopping) barefoot in their shower shoes a.k.a flip flops or gaudy sneakers, shorts/pants, and sassy ball caps and sunglasses (men/women/children and seniors). 

There are slow pokes, dumpy folks, too skinny folks, short and tall and most of all, lacking situational awareness folks - in their own little world as if the isle is theirs (just look at drivers on the interstates). You might wonder if they have been persuaded to dress/look/act this way... or have not been persuaded.

Such folks often see themselves as just being themselves as in made that way and so argue that they have the right to do whatever they want because that's just who they are. While at the same time, there are also those that see themselves as self-righteous or better. They never do anything wrong and in fact are born that way too... its in their genes or the way they were raised. 

So, they see those that are generally flip floppy, gaudy, old, overweight, unkempt, poorly dressed and ignorant as delinquent or a determinant to the whole. For them, their behavior is sound as in proper and everyone else should be curbed or instructed. At least, in the eyes of some social engineers.

Therefore, why not 'hire' a social engineer (s) to conduct persuasive measures that will slowly get people on board with the social imagination of the righteous which certainly means....not you. It just takes a little friendly persuasion. That is getting people to do things that are in their own best interest according to someone else that also benefit you...but; especially those that are at the top... the healthy, wealthy, wise in their own eyes and or at least in the public limelight regardless of party.

So, what's in their own best interest for you? That is the question. The answer is that whatever it is it must ultimately benefit them before it benefits you since they are doing the persuading. Well, they get people of the' lower level' social imagination to be subject to change that benefits them in ways that best benefit those engineering the changes. 

Are you being persuaded yet? If not now, then perhaps later, when you think you have a choice but really don't. Those at the top, the social engineers, want you to think they know what is best for you... that's how persuasion benefits them and you...its a cov-ert operation.

The problem we always face is the unseen enemy. It doesn't mean it isn't real or just imagined. Its been engineered to do a job/task/campaign and its doing it through the art of persuasion. This strategy is not just used by one man... but many who think you should be persuaded.




*Submission to Authorities
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. Consequently, the one who resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.…Romans 13: 1-2.

But...Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish...Psalm 146:3-4.

 

Bababa... Herd Mentality in the Social Imagination

Well, if you have been following along, we have been discussing propaganda and subliminal messaging in the social imagination. Today, we will look at Herd Mentality. What is that? 

Herd mentality (also known as mob mentality) describes a behavior in which people act the same way or adopt similar behaviors as the people around them — often ignoring their own feelings in the process. Think of a sheep blindly following the flock no matter where they go just because that’s what the herd is doing. And this isn’t just pseudoscience: There have been peer-reviewed psychological studies conducted on the subject.

In 2008, Professor Jens Krause and Dr. John Dyer of Leeds University conducted an experiment where groups of subjects were told to walk in a random path inside of a big hall while not communicating with the other subjects. However, the researchers told a few of the subjects exactly where they should walk.

Guess what happened? They discovered that the people who were told exactly where to walk started being followed by the subjects walking “randomly.”

From Professor Krause: We’ve all been in situations where we get swept along by the crowd. But what’s interesting about this research is that our participants ended up making a consensus decision despite the fact that they weren’t allowed to talk or gesture to one another. In most cases the participants didn’t realise they were being led by others.

In the end, they found that it took just 5% of people walking confidently to influence 95% of the other walkers to follow them. Looking around, you’ll see examples of this type of behavior everywhere; for one example consider Black Friday Shopping. You should ask, what makes people into feral monkeys ready to step on each other’s neck for a flat screen TV.

Another example of herd mentality happens at large sport events or rock concerts and more simply the opening day at the newest grocery store offering huge deals like buy three and get one free. It may even be at the local ice cream shop with the same deal, people will crowd and push to get in line. More recently and alarming is the 'sky is falling' pandemic which had everyone rushing out to buy toilet paper. 

As a sociologist, not a biologist, not a microbiologist, I speak from a different perspective - the social scientist. In case you are not aware, there are a number of people in positions of power who have enormous wealth and influence. Now, some don't have enormous wealth but they do have positions of prestige (at research institutes/universities/boards and even Congress; i.e.) which equals influence. These people like their positions of influence and their power and their wealth.

Their social imagination is quite different from yours and mine. They imagine a world that doesn't' have much to do with you at all. They might say it does but since this is a fallen world, that is not true. They look out for themselves unless they see an advantage in sharing or virtual signaling. You see, the heart is deceitful beyond all things in a fallen world. 

Not surprisingly, these people who want to herd you are often educated people and or they have learned to get ahead usually on the backs of other people's oversights, mistakes or misfortune or lack of talent and ability... 

Oh, indeed they do think that what they are doing is the right thing to do; its for everyone's good. They are very imaginative at making things appear as if you need that or should do that or expect that. And, they will even lead you to think that you should side with them, support them, favor them and help them to make a better world. They can even make you SICK or sicker than you ever imagined.

But, it isn't that easy to do. They apply what they learned and they use herd mentality to get the job done... because, it works. Why is that? Are we just cattle or sheep? Some people are. And, some are not. It depends on the level of education and or experience in society a person has and the scope of their social imagination. 

Most of all, it depends on how you spend your money. What you value and what are you afraid of. Since, most people are afraid of dying... Well, the bar is open and drinks are on the house. Why such a generous offer? Cause in the end, they get what they want, not what you want.

*What do you want... life??? Of course, and eternal life would be the best. There is only one go to, one absolute source/provider, the Creator of all life ~ Jesus Christ. 

https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/herd-mentality/

 

THE CROWD IS THE UNTRUTH... In the Social Imagination!

 

The Crowd Is "Untruth" From Soren Kierkegaard's "That Individual": Two "Notes" Concerning My Work as an Author, published posthumously in 1859. "There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there also is the truth, and that in truth itself there is need of having the crowd on its side. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd there is untruth, so that (to consider for a moment the extreme case), even if every individual, each for himself in private, were to be in possession of the truth, yet in case they were all to get together in a crowd -- a crowd to which any sort of decisive significance is attributed, a voting, noisy, audible crowd -- untruth would at once be in evidence... "[A] crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction. Observe that there was not one single soldier that dared lay hands upon Caius Marius -- this was an instance of truth. But given merely three or four women with the consciousness or the impression that they were a crowd, and with hope of a sort in the possibility that no one could say definitely who was doing it or who began it -- then they had courage for it. What a falsehood! The falsehood first of all is the notion that the crowd does what in fact only the individual in the crowd does, though it be every individual. For 'crowd' is an abstraction and has no hands: but each individual has ordinarily two hands, and so when an individual lays his two hands upon Caius Marius they are the two hands of the individual, certainly not those of his neighbor, and still less those of the crowd which has no hands...For every individual who flees for refuge into the crowd, and so flees in cowardice from being an individual (who had not the courage to lay his hands upon Caius Marius, nor even to admit that he had it not), such a man contributes his share of cowardliness to the cowardliness which we know as the 'crowd.' Take the highest example, think of Christ -- and the whole human race, all the men that ever were born or are to be born. But let the situation be one that challenges the individual, requiring each one for himself to be alone with Him in a solitary place and as an individual to step up to Him and spit upon Him -- the man never was born and never will be born with courage or insolence enough to do such a thing... The crowd is untruth. Therefore was Christ crucified, because, although He addressed himself to all, He would have no dealings with the crowd, because He would not permit the crowd to aid him in any way, because in this regard He repelled people absolutely, would not found a party, did not permit balloting, but would be what He is, the Truth, which relates itself to the individual...it is not so great a trick to win the crowd. All that is needed is some talent, a certain dose of falsehood, and a little acquaintance with human passions..."

ONLINE SOURCES:

 https://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/The%20Crowd%20Is%20Untruth.htm


https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Kierkegaard/kierkegaard_the_crowd_is_untruth.html