With all due respect, the mass media have always been designed and operated around hypnotic principles.
If you take a master's or doctorate at one of the big Mindf!ck departments, you are taught from the get go about this, day one, 9 a.m. The entire agenda is about claiming people's focused attention, making them fix it upon what YOU want them to pay attention to (ignoring other things), then guiding them ever more deeply into the reaction system you want them to manifest.
Read Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud's nephew, and the "Father of Public Relations") on this.
It's just that the internet delivered via Palm Slab is more portable. And people PAY to be constantly goaded into the hypnotic altered state.
I would hear people in the '80s and '90s say that "TV is like heroin," and I would reply that it isn't LIKE heroin, it literally IS heroin. It was designed deliberately and carefully to tap into the same addiction centers as hard drugs.
With all due respect, the mass media have always been designed and operated around hypnotic principles.
If you take a master's or doctorate at one of the big Mindf!ck departments, you are taught from the get go about this, day one, 9 a.m. The entire agenda is about claiming people's focused attention, making them fix it upon what YOU want them to pay attention to (ignoring other things), then guiding them ever more deeply into the reaction system you want them to manifest.
Read Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud's nephew, and the "Father of Public Relations") on this.
It's just that the internet delivered via Palm Slab is more portable. And people PAY to be constantly goaded into the hypnotic altered state.
I would hear people in the '80s and '90s say that "TV is like heroin," and I would reply that it isn't LIKE heroin, it literally IS heroin. It was designed deliberately and carefully to tap into the same addiction centers as hard drugs.