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Steve Boronski's avatar

I always used to ask myself “who are THEY” but back then I never knew the answer so I became an unofficial member of the opposition. No matter who was in power I opposed them.

Following the last four years I have a much better idea of who THEY are and always were.

My opposition today is broader than my country’s borders.

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Paul Robotham's avatar

Really good cataloguing of the demoralisation techniques

They trace back to the research done post ww 2 by the Tavistock institute who picked up a lot of the propaganda techniques developed by Joseph Goebels. They did studies on the socio-techniques of miners in Yorkshire to organise and unionise their pay bargaining terms. The researchers studied how the disruptive methods developed in pre-war Germany and their effectiveness of disruption union bargaining power. It led to developing many of the techniques you outlined above in the 1950s, to better manage an unruly organised workforce. Your interest is scholarly and here is a reference from the Tavistock papers. You can find many others documenting the development of these methods. Their current day use is not by accident . They were developed in social experiments in the 50s & 60s https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1bvndqw.9?seq=1

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