Declaring Independence

"The other side does it."

"Kochies don't represent the USA, we do. This is manipulation without representation. Who elected them? I sure don't remember voting for them. Why just a short while ago I did not know who they were and believed a few folks who said I should not care."

Perception manufacturing is a fragile business when the target audience is human. The limbic brain is only part of the mind. So, to the degree that messaging is employed (fairly essential in assembly line production) it can be disrupted by the agency nature of homo sapiens when activated. There is a primitive override mechanism.

"Thats the conversation part, Prudence. Its very appealing to the creative nature common to all critters of the type we are discussing.

"It is how children learn. Also the part most inconvenient for those who want to anonymously control.

"Here is a thought: Give me a budget of, say, a hundred million or so and a mission to destroy. I'll bet I am not the only one who could deliver given that resource and mission.

"So the tricky part is I don't want to hurt anybody and it is difficult to find humans that really want to do that either. So deception is a necessary additional component. A big one at that. Manufacturing a perception that it is 'us or them' or, alternatively, 'no-one will really be hurt that does not deserve it.'"

© 2011 Buzz Hill