I will start this off by saying that I fully support the courageous people that are taking the initiative to stand up and create positive change in our world. With that being said I also know the importance of those courageous people having a knowledge about what they are taking part in.
The Occupy movement has done one thing, that cannot be argued against. It has shown us that the people (the masses) are becoming sick and tired of the corruption to a point, that they will no longer sit back and just take it any longer.
This is a trend that corporations and governments alike have been watching grow over the past decade. The preferred method for these entities to watch this growing discontent has been data mining operations.
Here is a brief excerpt on data mining.
“Personal finance reporter Erica Sandberg, who covered the issue of social media datamining in a story for CreditCards.com, said that if a data mining company turns your chatter and network into a behavioral pattern, and if they can prove it has some worth, then it’s valuable to companies. Sandberg said this is just more information anyone can use to help them make a decision.
“I don’t think there’s anything scary about it,” she said. “Why wouldn’t they look at it? It’s public.” She said she is not aware of any specific examples of those who have been negatively impacted because of it.
Entities such as airlines, politicians, and even non-profits can use this data for finding new customers or targeting products to existing ones. Financial services companies such as banks and lenders are also using the same data mining services for marketing purposes and to make lending decisions. For instance, certain types of credit products, which fit your personality, could be marketed specifically to you.”
Source: mashable.com
What this does not mention is that governments can buy that information, to form social engineering strategies to ensure that the public continues down a “desired” path. If the online activities show that the public is heading towards a revolution (which it has steadily been heading towards). Well I like to put myself in their mindsets.
To ensure control would you A: Roll out the totalitarian police state, or. B: Engineer that revolution.
Throughout history we can see that totalitarian dictatorships do not last for long. The people always rise up against them. The elites of this planet have more knowledge in this fact , than any of us. So we can rule that option out.
Through Social engineering they can steer any revolt into their desired outcome. Here is a brief explanation of social engineering:
“Extremely intensive social engineering campaigns occurred in countries with authoritarian governments. In the 1920s, the government of the Soviet Union embarked on a campaign to fundamentally alter the behavior and ideals of Soviet citizens, to replace the old social frameworks of Tsarist Russia with a new Soviet culture, to create the New Soviet man. The Soviets used newspapers, books, film, mass relocations, and even architectural design tactics to serve as “social condenser” and change personal values and private relationships. Similar examples are the Chinese “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution” program and the Khmer Rouge’s plan of deurbanization of Cambodia. In Singapore, the government’s housing policies attempt to promote a mix of all races within each subsidized housing district in order to foster social cohesion and national loyalty while providing the citizens with affordable housing.
Non-authoritarian regimes tend to rely on more sustained social engineering campaigns that create more gradual, but ultimately far-reaching, change. Examples include the “War on Drugs” in the United States, the increasing reach of intellectual property rights and copyright, and the promotion of elections as a political tool. The campaign for promoting elections, which is by far the most successful of the three examples, has been in place for over two centuries. Social theorists of the Frankfurt School in Weimar Germany like Theodor Adorno had also observed the new phenomenon of mass culture and commented on its new manipulative power, when the rise of the Nazis drove them out of the country around 1930 (many of them became connected with the Institute for Social Research in the United States). The Nazis themselves were no strangers to the idea of influencing political attitudes and re-defining personal relationships. The Nazi propaganda machine under Joseph Goebbels was a synchronized, sophisticated and effective tool for creating public opinion.
In a similar vein the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 attempted to steer Greek public opinion not only by propaganda but also by inventing new words and slogans such as palaiokommatismos (old-partyism), Ellas Ellinon Christianon (Greece of Christian Greeks), and Ethnosotirios Epanastasis (nation-saving revolution, meaning coup d’état).
Social engineering can be used as a means to achieve a wide variety of different results, as illustrated by the different governments and other organizations that have employed it. The discussion of the possibilities for such manipulation became especially active following World War II, with the advent of television, and continuing discussion of techniques of social engineering, particularly in advertising, is still quite pertinent in the western model of consumer capitalism.”
Source: en.wikipedia.org
In the above link you can also read about Karl Popper.
“Popper wrote: the piecemeal engineer will adopt the method of searching for, and fighting against, the greatest and most urgent evil of society, rather than searching for, and fighting for, its greatest ultimate good.”
Karl Popper fits into the occupy movements because he was the mentor of George Soros.
Here is a video (deleted) that breaks down Soros’ importance in this movement.
One of the main arguments that I have run into about the Soros connection is that ya maybe he did back it at first. But he is not funding any of the independent Occupy events in what is estimated to be in over 1 thousand cities across the globe.
This is very true, but it is also very true that he does not need to be funding them. Group think can be a very dangerous thing. When people are fed up with the state of society, it only takes a spark to create a sweeping and blazing fire! Being behind that initial spark ensures that you will know where the trends are leading and have the knowledge on how to profit/gain control/steer it.
Social engineering has been a method of control for centuries, but has seen a great deal of “fine tuning” since World War 2.
Two great films that highlight this: The Century Of The Self & Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent.
The main stream media has been on board with the social engineering programs for far too long now. But the difference with the occupy movement is that alternative media is being sucked into that abyss as well.
We all know the problems with our society, mainly because of alternative media. I hope that most have learned that there is a “shadow world government” that has been itching to introduce itself to the world.
In the majority of the occupy protests they are rallying against the corruption on Wall Street, which once again I cannot argue against. But they are not the true people in power!
The central banks and the fiat currency systems that we all live under holds the majority of the power and control over the mess that we are in. The crooks on Wall Street are crooks and deserve to be brought to justice do not get me wrong on that! But the change that the 99% want, will not come until the central banks of the world are gone.
Do not let the social engineers guide the people into larger government and more government control! Do not be socially engineered into believing that Wall Street is the main source of the elite corruption that we face!
by Terry Wilson