Obamanoids … For Real!
This doesn’t seem so farfetched after all. It surfaced during the presidential campaign. “An Examination of Obama’s Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in His Speeches” purports to contain “over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of ‘hack’ hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know.” It deserves a serious look in light of the following.
Time Magazine has written a story on Obama’s use of brainwashing scientists, hired to influence, persuade and control the masses.
Two weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama’s campaign was mobilizing millions of supporters; it was a bit late to start rewriting get-out-the-vote (GOTV) scripts. “BUT, BUT, BUT,” deputy field director Mike Moffo wrote to Obama’s GOTV operatives nationwide, “What if I told you a world-famous team of genius scientists, psychologists and economists wrote down the best techniques for GOTV scripting?!?! Would you be interested in at least taking a look? Of course you would!!”
Moffo then passed along guidelines and a sample script from the Consortium of Behavioral Scientists, a secret advisory group of 29 of the nation’s leading behaviorists. The key guideline was a simple message: “A Record Turnout Is Expected.” That’s because studies by psychologist Robert Cialdini and other group members had found that the most powerful motivator for hotel guests to reuse towels, national-park visitors to stay on marked trails and citizens to vote is the suggestion that everyone is doing it. “People want to do what they think others will do,” says Cialdini, author of the best seller Influence. “The Obama campaign really got that.”
The existence of this behavioral dream team — which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton — has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals — among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama — came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. “It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it,” Moffo tells TIME. “These guys really know what makes people tick.”
President Obama is still relying on behavioral science. But now his Administration is using it to try to transform the country. Because when you know what makes people tick, it’s a lot easier to help them change.
It should be a crime to employ such deceptive persuasion tactics.
In turns out that this professor/guru Robert Cialdini utilizes similar manipulative psychological practices identified in the above-cited Obama hypnosis paper. The anonymous author was quite detailed in regard to specific techniques - Milton H. Erickson, for one. Ericksonian methods of hypnotic suggestion are discussed at length, with “hundreds of examples of Obama’s specific language patterns and hypnosis techniques that follow textbook Ericksonian and characteristics too much to be coincidence.”
Through the techniques of Cialdini the Cult of Obama has – to use a Collins brothers expression – been tangibly enacted. At Rick Ross’s site, for instance, we read that Cialdini’s methods are put into practice by cult leaders:
Emotional Manipulation
According to Cialdini, the majority of the thousands of different
tactics that compliance professionals use fall into six categories,
and each category is based on a psychological principle that directs
human behavior. These six principles are:
- Consistency. We try to justify our earlier behavior.
- Reciprocity. If somebody gives us something, we try
to repay in kind.- Social Proof. We try to find out what other people
think is correct.- Authority. We have a deep-seated sense of duty to
authority figures.- Liking. We obey people we like.
- Scarcity. If we come to want something, we can be
made to fear that if we wait it will be gone. The opportunity
to get it may pass. We want to take it now - whatever is being
offered, from an object to cosmic consciousness.We can see how transformations occur when the six principles are
skillfully put into play by cult leaders and cultic groups. For
example:
- Consistency. If you have made a commitment to the group
and then break it, you can be made to feel guilty.- Reciprocity. If you accept the group’s food and attention,
you feel you should repay them.- Social proof. If you look around in the group, you
will see people behaving in particular ways. You imitate what
you see and assume that such behavior is proper, good, and expected.- Authority. If you tend to respect authority, and your
cult leader claims superior knowledge, power, and special missions
in life, you accept him as an authority.- Liking. If you are the object of love bombing and
other tactics that surround you, make you feel wanted and loved,
and make you like the people in the group, you feel you ought
to obey these people.- Scarcity. If you are told that without the group you
will miss out on living a life without stress; miss out on attaining
cosmic awareness and bliss; miss out on changing the world instantly
or gaining the ability to travel back in time; or miss out on
whatever the group offers that is tailored to seem essential to
you, you will feel you must buy in now.
Tell me those are not precise descriptions of the way in which the Obama Cult behaved during the presidential campaign.
But that’s just one of the 29 professional behavior manipulators employed by Obama to coerce the populace. And these “weapons of influence” have become quite sophisticated in the era of mass media.
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THE CENTURY OF THE SELF - One: Happiness Machines
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF - Two: The Engineering of Consent
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF - Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF - Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
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Also see: 50 Psychology Classics, which includes overviews of both Erickson and Cialdini, even Bernays, Skinner, Freud and Jung.
Tags: Cialdini, Hypnosis, Psychological Manipulation, Terry Melanson, Videos
PERFECTIBILISTS: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
April 10th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Oh, please. It’s called marketing. Communication of your message is key. There is nothing nefarious about it. But you have to have a message that people want to hear and O had that, while McCain didn’t. You make it out to be some secret mind control technique, but it’s simple communication, with a goal. People who know techniques such as NL use them in every day life. It doesn’t make me evil to use suggestion or persuasion.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:47 am
It’s more than just marketing. It is the use of behaviour scientists who study ways to deceptively manipulate and coerce, and who also study the techniques of cult leaders. The end justifies the means, right? If black magic were still a viable practice, he’d use that too. In fact, sorcery is an apt descriptor of what is really taking place:
April 10th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Magic is the motivation of energy-pure and simple. Black magic is the motivation of energy for one’s own personal gain and white magic is the motivation of energy for the greater good. We will see which result Obama achieves, but in light of his predecessor, I’m inclined to lean towards the latter.
I don’t see using suggestion in politics as a bad thing. We all gravitate towards the message we want to hear, the one that matches who we are. . Hence the rubes and Repugs who voted for Bush.
April 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
“motivation of energy for the greater good. We will see which result Obama achieves”
Right, the end justifies the means; and you obviously approve of this Machiavellian methodology. Gotcha. The means is deceptive psychology used to influence and control the masses without consent; the end is, well, anything he chooses to tell us it is (or not tell us).
“I don’t see using suggestion in politics as a bad thing”
I do. But it’s more than just “suggestion” - it is sorcery taken to the level of scientific precision. And it is done in the same manner as nefarious spooks intent on brainwashing you. It is not only bad, it is criminal.
Watch all parts of the Century of the Self videos. Obama is only one in a long line of manipulators. However, judging by the revelation in the Time article - “a secret advisory group of 29 of the nation’s leading behaviorists” - he has taken it to a new level of sophistication.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I’ve seen all of the Century of Self, and nothing in it surprised me. I’m simply an advocate for awareness, free will and making informed and consciousness decisions. The Sheeple will always be lead by those who can and will exert influence upon them. When they reach a level of consciousness that allows them to read between the lines, see through the smoke and pull back the curtains, they will make informed decisions. Thus it ever was.
I can’t get angry when I see these tactics being used because it’s the nature of the game being played. It’s politics. You can’t begrudge the poker player his bluff and you can’t expect a politician-even one who “sells” hope-to eschew the techniques his opponents are sure to engage in. Those with open eyes will learn their poker opponent’s “tell” and call their bluff the next time, and we can keep our eyes open in the political arena and call a politician’s bluff as well. Besides, it’s more important what a politician does while in office than what got them there. Again, Bush.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
“I’m simply an advocate for awareness, free will and making informed and consciousness decisions.”
And do you believe that I am not? Or that somehow this post contradicts the spirit of “free will,” and “awareness”? Should I not call out the deceivers? Should I take the ass-kissing (whitewashing) road of Michael Grunwald of Time, and gush about the good intentions of the dear leader?
Bush is gone. Barack is here. And Barack and his shenanigans - just like Bush - will be exposed.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I never suggested anything of the sort, just wanted to shed light on my take on things. Notice I said “I” and not “You.” The MSM will never call out the true game. Of course the higher ups in the MSM know the truth, they just won’t let their reporters cover it. That’s where, as far as I’m concerned, people like you come in.
I’m simply saying that not only does this not surprise me, I would actually conclude that any politician that didn’t employ psychological tactics was naive. We’re touching on a few areas that I am trained in, and politics is an extremely dirty and deceitful game. I have no inclination to exist in that field, despite the urging of people around me. However, if I were so inclined, I would do whatever it took to win, including many of the techniques that, as we learned in C of S, Hitler used.
My general point in the previous post is that we’re dealing with a different animal here. Obama is playing the Chess Match, as Brzezinski would call it, and he has received the blessing of the CFR, etc. Let’s see where he takes the US from the place that Bush left it. I am under no illusions that Obama is a saint, far from it, he is a politician after all. And I am disappointed that he is continuing with Bush’s secrecy laws and has brought in a bunch of Wall St. Banksters to “solve” the problem that they created in the first place.
If I gave the impression that I am criticizing you for covering such shenanigans, I apologize. That was not my intention. What I am saying is, basically, “Oh, really? No surprise there!”
April 11th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
It blows my mind that anyone would agree that suggestion is ok to use in politics. Aren’t we supposed to tell them what we want them to do rather than them use hypnotic commands and suggestions to mold our opinion towards what ever globalist goal they want to achieve. The difference between marketing and politics is one deals in commerce, whether a new pair of Nikes can make you look cooler then a new pair of Reeboks and the other deals with real life.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Politics is real life? What world do you live in? Do you really believe that there is an honest politician, one who is completely incorruptible, who has never compromised in order to further their goal, whether it be personal or altruistic? It begins at the municipal level, and Sara Palin is the poster girl for that, and goes on up from there.
You probably speak to people several times a week who have studied NLP or methods of communication from which they have learned that there are techniques to more effectively deliver their point. Men are using it every day now in bars because if the “Pick-up Artist” movement. It doesn’t make it good or nice, it simply means that is what is happening. If your mind is that easily blown, you obviously didn’t watch the above film. It’s not only commonplace, it’s expected.
Now whether I said it’s ok or not is your point. I didn’t say I approve, I did say I’m not surprised, since that’s the way the game is played. We all need to grow up from our high-school age political demonstrations and realize that the game is has rules and we can’t change them by yelling. We can only find our way within it. Have you found yours?
April 12th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Awareness seems to be a key factor. The more aware one is of the methods and tactics being employed by the speaker, the less susceptible one is to being influenced or manipulated.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I am surprised no one mentions “The sound of Silence-System” that via loudspeakers transmit in-audible frequencies , designed to influence the human mind,with feelings of “Pastoral solemnty”-”Religious expectation”-”being one with the masses”-or plant strong suggestions (to vote f.ex.) etc.Unusual loudspeakers, higly placed, were present in Berlin as well as in Washington and are responsible for the “Hitler-Jugend” -devotion in the “voluntary” social-work-groups with the Obama-slogans. .Same system is ,covertly, installed in the HD-system we are allmost being gifted with. Then you ALL will be hypnotized! JdV
April 12th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
@Johnny de Vulcan
I’m interested in learning more. Can you provide some sources?
April 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
“It’s too easy to say that politics is just the art of the possible, and leave it at that. That allows others to define what is possible. A truer statement is: Politics is the art of enlarging the possible. Politics is not just a matter of giving people what they want, it’s a matter of making them want what you want them to want. The great and successful politicians have been the ones who have been able to define the terms of debate, to make themselves the middle, to define what ‘moderate’ is.”
-Andrew Coyne
http://impolitical.blogspot.com/2009/04/little-deep-thought.html
April 13th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Call me proud or worse, I will not vote in elections where inferior intellects are given equal say with me in judging a politicians value to the country at large.This voting system is contemptible and what is pointed out in the above article is only new to fools.Obama and co. have mastered this vote, hands down.I wonder how his opposites feel.By the way, I’m Canadian but the same farce takes place here.Laughable as all this fal-de-ral is, it is a system I am happy enough to abide by.(work 10 hours for the country, for one vote,that would give the process meaning)
April 14th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Another fine example of an admission of a lie in politics. It’s all about reading between the lines. No one believed that cutting the GST would help the average Canadian, and here we have a Con admitting that that was not what it was about.
“Despite economic evidence to the contrary, in my view the GST cut worked,” Brodie said in Montreal at the annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. “It worked in the sense that by the end of the ’05-’06 campaign, voters identified the Conservative party as the party of lower taxes. It worked in the sense that it helped us to win.”
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/27/ian-brodie-offers-a-candid-case-study-in-politics-and-policy/
April 21st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I wasn’t going to vote. Then towards the end of the election i got caught up in Obama’s gibberish and acually voted for him. (not cool) It is not cool to participate in a political system that is rigged from the jump. With one candidate acting (or not) like a damn cynial retard, and serving the election up to Mr. Mindcontrol. It’s just like at your job it’s a dictatorship not a democracy. He has already done a 180 on his campaign promises. Such as withdrawing troops from Iraq, not having lobbyists on his council, and not invading on American’s privacy and torchering people at unofficial prisons. The 666 (pick 3) 7779 (pick 4) in Illinois on Nov.5th the day after the election. Is that some sign from “God”. Well I think that is what it is designed to look like. More symbology that is as likely to mislead those who come across it as give them a clue. We will get what we asked for with Obama. Whether the streets will be paved with gold or blood remains to be seen.
August 14th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
God help us if that shambling fraud gets in again! He and his cronies will use every weasely trick in the book, and a few more obviously that we simpletons would never dream of.
I think we’ve truly seen the fulfilment of the Bible verse: The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.
I truly wondered why he’s still doing well in the polls. He should be excoriated and impeached for all the underhanded things he’s done.