Shaming as a COVID Strategy
Jan 5, 2022 22:10:47 GMT -5
Post by Honoria on Jan 5, 2022 22:10:47 GMT -5
January 5, 2022
Shaming as a COVID Strategy
By Tim O’Brien
When it comes to social engineering, there is more than one kind of war. We’ve been witness to the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on obesity, and most recently, the war on COVID-19.
Psyops strategies are often used in these non-traditional “wars” and some of the strategies applied are the same ones used in real warfare scenarios.
From “divide and conquer” to fearmongering, mass persuasion strategies have been deployed in the campaign to make a viral pandemic with an extremely high survival rate and virtually no threat to healthy children feel like the plague.
The pandemic is real, but quite often there is a huge gap between the picture the regime paints through its persuasion campaigns and actual reality.
One of the foundational strategies that has enabled so many of the other strategies to gain traction is the targeted and widespread use of shaming, both public and private.
Shaming exploits basic human vulnerabilities
In order for shaming to work, you need to deputize the public. You need to give them license to break all of the rules of polite society, even if it involves people they love, to publicly embarrass them and shame them into conformity.
Shaming applies social pressure to enforce existing societal norms, or the new behaviors the shamers wish to establish as norms. Shaming assigns maliciousness, be it intentional or careless, to behaviors shamers don’t condone. By framing someone as malicious, you can dehumanize them, which makes shaming them more palatable.
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Shaming as a COVID Strategy
By Tim O’Brien
When it comes to social engineering, there is more than one kind of war. We’ve been witness to the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on obesity, and most recently, the war on COVID-19.
Psyops strategies are often used in these non-traditional “wars” and some of the strategies applied are the same ones used in real warfare scenarios.
From “divide and conquer” to fearmongering, mass persuasion strategies have been deployed in the campaign to make a viral pandemic with an extremely high survival rate and virtually no threat to healthy children feel like the plague.
The pandemic is real, but quite often there is a huge gap between the picture the regime paints through its persuasion campaigns and actual reality.
One of the foundational strategies that has enabled so many of the other strategies to gain traction is the targeted and widespread use of shaming, both public and private.
Shaming exploits basic human vulnerabilities
In order for shaming to work, you need to deputize the public. You need to give them license to break all of the rules of polite society, even if it involves people they love, to publicly embarrass them and shame them into conformity.
Shaming applies social pressure to enforce existing societal norms, or the new behaviors the shamers wish to establish as norms. Shaming assigns maliciousness, be it intentional or careless, to behaviors shamers don’t condone. By framing someone as malicious, you can dehumanize them, which makes shaming them more palatable.
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