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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Readying for Battle
Denotation, Connotation, Tell, Sell, Soft, Hard, Priming, and Prompting
Propaganda, Public Relations, Advertising, Advertorial, Content, Infotainment, and Journalism
Chapter 2
Setting the Strategy
Assangian Miscalculations
Milgramming
The Default Delusion
Understanding Legends, Myths, and Narratives
Understanding Advertorials
The Structure of Strategy
Workflow Strategy
Preliminary Research
Baseline Profile
Determining Parameters
Forming a Hypothesis
Finding Advocates
Building a Foundation
Setting a Web
The PIO Dilemma
Using FOIA
Using Lobbyist Registries and FARA
PR and Legal Tracking
Psychological Profiling
Method Research
Global versus Local Focus
Creative Incompetence
The Realm of Fantasy
The Realm of Reality
Chapter 3
Going into the Heart of the Storm
Understanding Monopolistic Tendencies
Analytical Literacy and Its Shortcomings
Understanding Organic Plurality
Understanding Environmental Blinders
Understanding Appeal to Insult and Appeal to Hubris
Understanding Bombast
Understanding Vested Interests
The Hierarchy of Manipulations
Understanding Trojan Strategies
When Retreat Is Strategy
Embedding Excuses
Feigning Fragility
Understanding Appeal to Pity
Embedding Moral Pecking Orders
Understanding Mass Manipulation
Challenging Caligulan Gambits
The Censorship Delusion and Object Permanence
The Game of Theater
Bafflegab, Doublespeak, Word Salad, and Semantic Fortification
Content of Thought versus Structure of Thought
Societal Quadrants
Thinking in Quadrants
Chapter 4
Indoctrination and Manipulation
Cognitive Dissonance and Cognitive Outsourcing
Foot in the Door Techniques
Understanding Pandas.
Understanding Sanctioned Insanity
Unrealistic Expectations and Promises
Repetitive Conditioning
Understanding Deserved Discomfort
Developing Corporate Counter-Strategies
Understanding Adolescent Logical Fallacies
Atmosphere, Narrative, and Sophistry
Geist, Flow, and Logic
Strategic Vulnerability
Feigning Inevitable Victory
Embedded Rigs
Embedded Bigotry
Embedded Misogyny
Embedded Classism
Embedded Ageism
Embedded Ableism
Dealing with Predatory Mindsets
Playing Dirty versus Bypassing Rigs
Showing True Faces
Chapter 5
Conspiracy Panic and Paranoia
The Rote Binary Dilemma
The Conspiracy Panic Dilemma
Data Points, Facts, and Lines of Inquiry
The Don't Know/Doesn't Matter Strategy
When Data Points Become Facts
Developing Lines of Inquiry
Conspiracy Panic in Information Gathering
Rote Binary Panic
Chapter 6
Rote Collusion and Hamster Wheels
Timelining and Mapping
Radical Centrism and Input/Output Equilibrium
Understanding Comorbidity and Spurious Correlation
Rote Collusion, Elite Herding, and Monopolistic Tendencies
Pecking Orders and Hamster Wheels
Understanding Power
Cultish Indoctrination
Gaming Systems
Signs of Competence and Incompetence
Interviewing Honest Sources
Gestalt Psychology and Competence Monitoring
The Spectrum of Credibility
Flooding
Responsibility Shifting
Failure Conditioning
The Solomon Asch Subtext
Understanding Predictive Algorithms
Empirical, Therapeutic, Organic, and Harmonized Parameters
Chapter 7
Threats and Pecking Orders
Why Baselining is Necessary
Baselining Ecosystems
Virtue-Signaling Irony
Inoculation and Intellectual Appropriation
Recognizing and Dismantling the Fogg Behavior Model
Willful Mistakes
Understanding Internal Threats.
Baselining Behaviour and Thought Patterns
Whole Body and Gesamtkunstwerk Interviewing Techniques
Method Research as a Psychological Strategy
Simple Short-Form Method Research
Simple Long-Form Method Research
Complex Short-Form Method Research
Complex Long-Form Method Research
Chapter 8
Gaslighting and Nudging
Creative and Strategic Humility
Turnarounds
Dealing with a Manipulative Source
Dealing with a Patronizing Source
Dealing with a Secretive Source
Dealing with an Abusive Source
Chapter 9
Emotional Bombing and Sensory Overloading
Understanding Cognitive Overload
Understanding Theater
Understanding Secret Teachings
Confronting Abusive Tactics
Developing Political Counter-Strategies
Chapter 10
Burnout and Crashes
Dealing with Burnout
Dealing with Crashes
Strategic Hobbies
Chapter 11
False Rushes and Squeezes
Understanding Naïveté and Gullibility
Understanding Your Organic Credulity Level
Power Bluffing
Bypassing the Gate-Keepers
Finding Advocates
Using Curator Sources
Using Advisory Sources
Chapter 12
The 36 Counter-Strategies of Manipulations
Ecological Validity
The Currency of Thought
Creating Counter-Strategies to the 36 Stratagems of War
Platforming as Public Manipulation
Understanding Conflicts of Interests
Matrix of Erosion
Chapter 13
Emotional Wellness
Leaving Trails
Maintaining Flow
Maintaining Emotional Competence
Chapter 14
Analytical Wellness
Maintaining Analytical Competence
Analytical Exercises
Maintaining Logic
Chapter 15
Primal Wellness
Maintaining Primal Competence
Maintaining Cortisol Balances
Maintaining Geist
Maintaining Biological Balances
References
About the Author
Index
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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Readying for Battle
Denotation, Connotation, Tell, Sell, Soft, Hard, Priming, and Prompting
Propaganda, Public Relations, Advertising, Advertorial, Content, Infotainment, and Journalism
Chapter 2
Setting the Strategy
Assangian Miscalculations
Milgramming
The Default Delusion
Understanding Legends, Myths, and Narratives
Understanding Advertorials
The Structure of Strategy
Workflow Strategy
Preliminary Research
Baseline Profile
Determining Parameters
Forming a Hypothesis
Finding Advocates
Building a Foundation
Setting a Web
The PIO Dilemma
Using FOIA
Using Lobbyist Registries and FARA
PR and Legal Tracking
Psychological Profiling
Method Research
Global versus Local Focus
Creative Incompetence
The Realm of Fantasy
The Realm of Reality
Chapter 3
Going into the Heart of the Storm
Understanding Monopolistic Tendencies
Analytical Literacy and Its Shortcomings
Understanding Organic Plurality
Understanding Environmental Blinders
Understanding Appeal to Insult and Appeal to Hubris
Understanding Bombast
Understanding Vested Interests
The Hierarchy of Manipulations
Understanding Trojan Strategies
When Retreat Is Strategy
Embedding Excuses
Feigning Fragility
Understanding Appeal to Pity
Embedding Moral Pecking Orders
Understanding Mass Manipulation
Challenging Caligulan Gambits
The Censorship Delusion and Object Permanence
The Game of Theater
Bafflegab, Doublespeak, Word Salad, and Semantic Fortification
Content of Thought versus Structure of Thought
Societal Quadrants
Thinking in Quadrants
Chapter 4
Indoctrination and Manipulation
Cognitive Dissonance and Cognitive Outsourcing
Foot in the Door Techniques
Understanding Pandas.
Understanding Sanctioned Insanity
Unrealistic Expectations and Promises
Repetitive Conditioning
Understanding Deserved Discomfort
Developing Corporate Counter-Strategies
Understanding Adolescent Logical Fallacies
Atmosphere, Narrative, and Sophistry
Geist, Flow, and Logic
Strategic Vulnerability
Feigning Inevitable Victory
Embedded Rigs
Embedded Bigotry
Embedded Misogyny
Embedded Classism
Embedded Ageism
Embedded Ableism
Dealing with Predatory Mindsets
Playing Dirty versus Bypassing Rigs
Showing True Faces
Chapter 5
Conspiracy Panic and Paranoia
The Rote Binary Dilemma
The Conspiracy Panic Dilemma
Data Points, Facts, and Lines of Inquiry
The Don't Know/Doesn't Matter Strategy
When Data Points Become Facts
Developing Lines of Inquiry
Conspiracy Panic in Information Gathering
Rote Binary Panic
Chapter 6
Rote Collusion and Hamster Wheels
Timelining and Mapping
Radical Centrism and Input/Output Equilibrium
Understanding Comorbidity and Spurious Correlation
Rote Collusion, Elite Herding, and Monopolistic Tendencies
Pecking Orders and Hamster Wheels
Understanding Power
Cultish Indoctrination
Gaming Systems
Signs of Competence and Incompetence
Interviewing Honest Sources
Gestalt Psychology and Competence Monitoring
The Spectrum of Credibility
Flooding
Responsibility Shifting
Failure Conditioning
The Solomon Asch Subtext
Understanding Predictive Algorithms
Empirical, Therapeutic, Organic, and Harmonized Parameters
Chapter 7
Threats and Pecking Orders
Why Baselining is Necessary
Baselining Ecosystems
Virtue-Signaling Irony
Inoculation and Intellectual Appropriation
Recognizing and Dismantling the Fogg Behavior Model
Willful Mistakes
Understanding Internal Threats.
Baselining Behaviour and Thought Patterns
Whole Body and Gesamtkunstwerk Interviewing Techniques
Method Research as a Psychological Strategy
Simple Short-Form Method Research
Simple Long-Form Method Research
Complex Short-Form Method Research
Complex Long-Form Method Research
Chapter 8
Gaslighting and Nudging
Creative and Strategic Humility
Turnarounds
Dealing with a Manipulative Source
Dealing with a Patronizing Source
Dealing with a Secretive Source
Dealing with an Abusive Source
Chapter 9
Emotional Bombing and Sensory Overloading
Understanding Cognitive Overload
Understanding Theater
Understanding Secret Teachings
Confronting Abusive Tactics
Developing Political Counter-Strategies
Chapter 10
Burnout and Crashes
Dealing with Burnout
Dealing with Crashes
Strategic Hobbies
Chapter 11
False Rushes and Squeezes
Understanding Naïveté and Gullibility
Understanding Your Organic Credulity Level
Power Bluffing
Bypassing the Gate-Keepers
Finding Advocates
Using Curator Sources
Using Advisory Sources
Chapter 12
The 36 Counter-Strategies of Manipulations
Ecological Validity
The Currency of Thought
Creating Counter-Strategies to the 36 Stratagems of War
Platforming as Public Manipulation
Understanding Conflicts of Interests
Matrix of Erosion
Chapter 13
Emotional Wellness
Leaving Trails
Maintaining Flow
Maintaining Emotional Competence
Chapter 14
Analytical Wellness
Maintaining Analytical Competence
Analytical Exercises
Maintaining Logic
Chapter 15
Primal Wellness
Maintaining Primal Competence
Maintaining Cortisol Balances
Maintaining Geist
Maintaining Biological Balances
References
About the Author
Index
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