Part 3:
And thus we come to my question: are the anthropomorphic representations of Ebola/Corona-Chan and/or the social movements inflating them part of something larger, something kept hidden by hyper-compartmentalization?
Could these movements be the result of a "deep state" pushed trend to suppress anti-government criticism with identity politics, by stimulating a stupid and unproductive identity politics based culture war?
I'd ask if something similar was done with "communist brainwashing", co-opting McCarthyist critiques of internal subversion to use against external enemies.
http://archive.is/zmhFP
WASHINGTON — Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information — including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations — are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his accusations.
Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts -- FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 -- the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy, communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy and influence network.
For all his faults, McCarthy at least had actual specific criticisms at specific people, which were at least partially supported by declassified documents.
By contrast the "brainwashing" charges were absolutely baseless and retarded, and factually wrong in retrospect.
A longer analysis of those accusations here:
http://archive.ph/miAEl
TIL the English Word "Brainwashing" Comes Directly Translated from the Chinese "xi nao", did not appear in English before 1950, and was used in Western MSM/gov't to smear POW admissions confirming Chinese accusations of Biological Warfare in the Korean War
I've been fascinated by the MKUltra programs development (and more importantly, the "justifications", PR, and coverup).
Why I find this program so interesting is a bit of a long story and is less about the "conspiracy" nature, but more about the tangible existence of such a program and how it successfully suppressed leaks. My favorite reading about such organization is the uncensored AskHistorians thread on it, where a mod-removed comment details how information-compartmentalization was key:
http://archive.is/6emyp
...This is the anecdotal part. The government is VERY good at delegating duties and information on a “need-to-know” basis. So I’m sure most of the institutions did not know the full extent of the experiments.
Sidenote: something I overlooked in a previous read of that askhistorians thread was a reference to "Mouse Utopia" experiments, a concept similar
"Mouse Utopia" was the unofficial name of the work done by John Calhoun, but Alexander is definitely worth mentioning as well.
Here is a semi-academic video essay on those unfamiliar with the experiments.
(If this isn't considered rigorous enough as a learning aid, I'll remove it at request)
The post where I referenced something in "Brainwashing vs indoctrination"
...For an analogy on indoctrination I'd use an example of "enriched environments" as proxy for ideas, and cocaine as a proxy for utopian indoctrination. So I'd cite this study on how a cocaine addicted rat will remain addicted if it has no other alternative activities, but a cocaine addicted rat with access to other activities will be protected against externally controlled radical indoctrination
I think rats are close enough to mice, but whatever. Tangent over.
If McCarthyism was successfully redirected to discredit biological warfare leaks, then perhaps other trends fared the same.
Something similar happened with the term "Woke". The term USED to be associated with conspiracy theorists and anti-establishment critics, and meant "waking up" from alleged lies one is told about society. But today it's associated with SJW's and similar useless idiots. That could just be a coincidence in the evolution of the term. Yet linguistics are a very politicized field:
http://archive.is/5DpOe
Why Latinx Can’t Catch On
New words stick when they come from below, and respond to a real need.
DECEMBER 23, 2019
to be continued...
there doesn't seem to be anything here