Trying to get through the excellent book, Disinformation by Natalie Grant, one comes across so many points of profound interest that directly relate to events today, its really difficult to make it through a single page without stopping in amazement and going for a walk to assimilate what one has read.
This single paragraph from page 13 of Chapter 1 was interesting enough to make a post. Start at the word, “Absurd” for clarity outside of any specific context:
The exercise is to think on the people allegedly on the side of the freedom minded on the vaccines in this context. Think about the people who have planted the most absurd stories or done repeated interviews with people who delivered 90% truth, but 10% hysteria with impossible or absurd claims about them. Like the injections build home networks in your blood, or you can get a bluetooth signal from the graves of injected people. (I haven’t checked this one personally yet, but bluetooth generally is too weak to penetrate a coffin and 6 feet of earth and what the power supply be?) There are many more. And they make it easy to check and discredit for those who bother to do so.
While for those of us committed to not injecting ourselves with these shots, it doesn’t make much difference. But for those vast majority who will (or did at this point) this is a very powerful technique at causing them to dismiss our arguments. I’m certain we nearly all know a friend or family member who, when the discussion on the vaxx came up, they sarcastically repeated some absurd claim, thereby negating the material you may have had that was factually correct and even perhaps from Pfizer or the CDC’s own files.
At this point one may think its merely commercial. That its people who are looking for clicks and money that are grabbing the most sensational nonsense they can for selfish reasons. Then it boils down to the motive makes no difference just like the man shooting at you because he hates you, hates what group he thinks you belong to, or just wants to randomly shoot people affects how you respond. It doesn’t. That is for the courts way way after the fact. Motive isn’t important in disinformation efforts. Only stopping it one way or another. Understanding what is is, is probably the most effective way. Swindler or enemy agent, the effect is the same even if there is a subtle variation in desired effect.
So keep this thought in the back of your mind and run the program, ‘what am I listening to here’ as you watch materials intended for our consumption. See if any names stick out in the gumbo of people who are running shows and videos, even as the issue of the vaxx and Covid is petering out.
