SolarCross wrote:Pokemon Go is but one trick in the toolbox of the magi. Poems, novels, drama, cinema, video games, board games, card games, sporting games, athletics, magic tricks, music, art, VR.. it is all the craft of the magi and it is all crafted to beguile and to entertain. That many people are entertained by these products does not mean they are brainwashed. They choose to participate because they enjoy them, they choose because life is pretty boring once survival is easy and because life is wearisome when survival is difficult. The magi give us a desirable distraction from the ennui of eating, working, shitting and sleeping, they give us a desirable distraction from troubles of our life. Fear not the magi.
Dismissing your naive sarcasm... Shouldn't you be in the digital field electronically sharecropping
(developing the developer's software) data? I fail to understand why intellectual peasants wish to spend time trying to grasp things beyond their
'reach.' Pre-electronic recreational artifacts are far less
'potent' than post-electronic devices, especially when we are concerning ourselves with modifying group behavior. The old hardware didn't possess the capability to augment our milieu, because the old hardware couldn't interface with or (re)program simultaneously/instantaneously public information fields. Such a limited scope of total awareness enabled private perspective to exist
(and in some cases, prosper), yet electronic awareness infringes upon the individual citizen's private identity and restructures the entire field of activity due to its ability to nullify time & space. Thus the private citizen is now a member of the electric tribe and
'flows' with the
'wave' of trending information, like an individual capacitor inside one socially engineered electronic schematic. Electronic devices promote group activities, with emphasis on collective participation.
Please note that I am not factoring in the individual's education. An educated intellectual peasant may be more tech savvy and able to avoid or bypass the information developer's neurophysiological conditioning.
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' -George Orwell Thanks to the computer, social engineers can
'program' interactive environments that not only shape public opinion, but mold public action as well.
Please reread:
As long as the content or software intrigues the human organism, one can predicatively program the hardware to reinforce gene expression (epi-genetics). For social engineers, the vice grip occurs when the medium or vehicle of information creates synergy within the method of sensory engagement created by the information field (total field of awareness). Therefore the content or software influences 'perception' as the hardware or medium influences physiological reception through repetition. Repetition may 'condition' physiological traits due to the human brain's neuroplasticity. Social engineers must exploit the innate flexibility or adaptability of the human system in order to properly/incrementally (re)program human populations.
Propaganda (programming) must be total, education, entertainment, art, etc. The matrix of experience must lean toward desirable genetic expression(s), dictated by the information priest class (today's scientific social engineers) throughout each phase of civilization. In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related, independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches. Thank your for time, SolarCross