“Defence industry analyst & consultant specialising in Land Warfare. Former British Army infantry officer. UK advisor to KNDS.”:
“Defence industry analyst & consultant specialising in Land Warfare. Former British Army infantry officer. UK advisor to KNDS.”:
It used to be that people couldn’t understand how an entire nation could become so collectively psychopathic as Nazi Germany. Now i’m asking myself how has any nation at war ever managed not to get like this? It seems it’s much easier than we thought it was to condition an entire population to completely dehumanize their enemy as well as themselves…to become a suicidal death cult.
Mass psychology really has turned out to be one of the most evil sciences in the history of humanity. And i’m not just talking about the applications it has for war and for governments to control the population making them think they are free and democratically in control of their own fate when they have about as little real freedom or power as serfs in medieval ages.
It’s also the armies of psychologists that corporations employ to come up with ever more fiendish methods of manipulation and conditioning to brainwash people into endlessly worshipping at the altar of consumerism. The invention of modern advertising in the early 20th century has been a disaster for the human species. The people who developed these techniques should have been executed by firing squad.
Few people ever openly think or talk about it, but mass/industrial psychology is absolutely one of the worst things we’ve created as a species. People I regularly talk to don’t even believe truth exists as a fundamental concept anymore.
That’s quite tragic. All the more so since, even though they may not want to admit it, in practice nobody can go through everyday life without believing in some form of objective truth.
When you go to cross the street, either there is a car coming or there isn’t. You’re not questioning the concept of truth when you see incoming traffic and (hopefully) choose not to walk into it.
So all that this talk of not believing in the concept of truth or objective reality is, is a way to rationalize their cognitive dissonance and their hypocrisy to make themselves feel better.
They know they’re believing lies but the lies make them feel good so they come up with this cope.