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| Ed points directly toward the essence of the thing |
The DoD does not care about the ideology; their efforts are all about
communication patterns and cluster detection for - as they put it -
"warfighter-relevant insights". They want to figure out the social media
communication path to spread word of mouth to predict the creation of
pop-up protesters and flash mobs. They also want to to quickly identify
influencers, or, as they put it " individuals mobilised in a social
contagion" - I really love the word contagion because the goal is to
quickly marginalize/neutralize the contagion.
The problem - and what
is scary - is not only the DoD wants to do this, everybody's commercial
operation in the world wants to do this. This is being studied for
political strategy, this is being studied for consumer product marketing
and being studied for social media marketing. So there is a concerted
effort worldwide to be the first to be able to master this science so
governments and corporations can predict social contagions.
Now,
this falls back to the Elliot Rodger mass shooter - if they are looking
to detect social contagions, wouldn't it be feasible to manufacture a
social contagion? This is what I referenced earlier through the behavior
modification drugs - what if someone can find someone who has charisma
to lead others and help them as an invisible hand?
It doesn't
matter - according to some, I'm supposed to be worried about what
happened in the 1960s with COINTEL, act like an emotional seperatist
from Amerikkka instead of concerning myself with socio-bio data
manipulation patterns and practices that are manifesting itself in
real-time.
