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The System's "Think-Feel-Do" Approach

6/29/2021

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A big part of system distancing entails building resistance to the System's endless mass communications: marketing, advertising, persuasion, storytelling, and propaganda.

This is much easier said than done, partly because the System is now global and totalitarian, which means the mass communications tactics employed are also global (ubiquitous, unavoidable) and totalitarian (repressive, indoctrinating, terroristic).

The System, together with the Establishment that runs it, is evil - meaning it is anti-God, anti-spiritual, anti-Truth, anti-Beauty, and anti-Goodness. This means all of its communications have been purposefully designed and engineered to oppose God and degrade Creation, primarily by subverting the divine element within each individual person.  


The fact the System's mass communications and mass media are virtually hardwired into modern people's consciousnesses doesn't make the matter any easier. This is particularly relevant within the development of human consciousness, which is meant to follow a spiritual trajectory, one that should - after a long period of autonomy and alienation from the spiritual - draw us back toward God and Creation.

The rampant despiritualization of human consciousness is a testament to how ruthlessly effective the System's mass communications campaigns against God and Creation have been - in which the birdemic/peck campaigns stand out as crowning achievements. Sadly, the effectiveness of the System's mass communications is also a testament to the spiritual weakness and cowardice of modern people, which has been on full display in the West and around the world for the better part of sixteen months. 

What strikes me about the System's mass communications and media in general is how savvy we moderns proclaim ourselves to be concerning these things. Nearly everyone I I know seems to understand the tactics and ploys the System uses in its communications. People everywhere appear to be aware of advertising tricks, persuasion techniques, and media manipulation. Yet when it comes to resisting the tricks, techniques, and manipulation, the very same knowledgeable and aware people are rendered completely powerless. 

I believe this has to do with the process of despiritualization mentioned above. Once people refuse to understand themselves as primarily spiritual beings, they surrender the resources required to resist the various "approaches" the System employs in its communications. Once deaf and blind to all divine communications, modern people sever their connection to reality and become defenseless against the anti-divine communications of the System. 

The despiritualized consciousness of modern people appears incapable of discerning truth from lies, beauty from ugliness, and Good from evil, which is a dream come true for modern advertisers, marketers, and propagandists. Assured of a "captive and receptive" audience, the System's communications departments are increasingly emboldened to ramp up their diversions and inversions because they know nothing they produce will be ever be meaningfully scrutinized, questioned, or resisted (mostly because despiritualized people have become literally incapable of learning). 

The current and ongoing mass communications campaign focusing on the peck provides some clarifying insights into the System's tactics and motivations within the overarching global campaign of "none are safe until all are safe". The following is taken from a recent WEF piece (bold added):


The decision-making process for customers - or in this case patients - is often understood using the Hierarchy of Effects Framework. It suggests that customers think first, then feel and then do. In relation to the COVID-19 vaccine, this implies that patients need to first “think” about it, that is, become aware of and knowledgeable about the vaccine. Next, patients need to “feel” positively about it, as in developing a conviction to get the vaccine. Finally, patients need to “do” it - in other words, get vaccinated.
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Most policy makers have emphasised the “do” stage by focusing on distribution and convenience via a combination of mass vaccination, hospital, physician, and drug store sites. This makes sense for the population interested in getting vaccinated. For the vaccine procrastinator, hesitant, and rejector populations, however, we need to focus on the “think” and “feel” stages of decision making. Without these stages, patients are unlikely to move to the “do” stage.
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Think . . . One rural parish in the US state of Louisiana, for example, enlisted African-American preachers and local leaders to directly phone members of their community. This led to a 9% increase in the parish’s vaccination rate in a week. 

Feel . . . One nurse in Louisiana deployed a particularly effective tactic. She called her vaccine-hesitant patients to talk about how she had been a vaccine skeptic but changed her mind after her husband passed away due to COVID-19. 

. . . 
Another way
 to improve vaccine sceptics’ feelings is to play into a fear of missing out (FOMO), both socially and economically. 

Do . . . First, incentives can work. Several US states and cities provide cash incentives and free transportation, or create lotteries and large block parties to incentivise vaccinations. Businesses should also be encouraged to contribute by providing paid time-off, free products and lottery giveaways.

We believe applying the “think - feel - do” patient-centered approach to the COVID-19 vaccine communication problem will improve efforts at accelerating global herd immunity. Ensuring a safe economic reopening and recovery and overcoming this significant health and economic challenge could depend on such tactics. 


Think - feel - do.

Now that's an approach to self-damnation!

Note added: System distancing is more about discernment than it is about avoidance. Thus, the goal in system distancing mass communications and media is not to cut it out completely - though that certainly wouldn't be bad! - but to see the thing for what it is. 

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William James Tychonievich link
6/30/2021 04:20:34

It's amazing how they lay out their strategy so blatantly.

"She called her vaccine-hesitant patients to talk about how she had been a vaccine skeptic but changed her mind after her husband passed away due to COVID-19."

I'm glad they put this one under "feel" rather than "think," since it's a complete non sequitur! Why would someone's dying of a particular disease make you change your mind about the effectiveness of any particular treatment for that disease? (Except negatively, if the person had undergone the treatment and died anyway.)

She could just as logically have said she used to be skeptical about drinking bleach until her husband died.

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Francis Berger
6/30/2021 20:08:03

@ Wm - About that bleach thing . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3g1wFe_DU

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bruce charlton
6/30/2021 08:34:04

What continues to amaze is that even knowing this stuff - knowing they are being manipulated, exactly how, and that it is being done by classically wicked folk such as global financiers and multinational corps - makes No difference to most people.

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Francis Berger
6/30/2021 20:10:22

@ Bruce - Despiritualization is the only explanation I can muster. Otherwise, the whole thing defies explanation.

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Mike Bryant
6/30/2021 16:49:22

I have to say that avoiding all media for even a week was a life changing event for me at the end of the week I felt more positive and hopeful about life but then Old Nick started whispering in my ear and your back in the 24/7 news cycle.

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Magnus Stout
6/30/2021 20:42:32

Good post which prompted the following thoughts:

First, it seems that tyrannical governments have always openly lied. The more evil the entity, the bolder the lies. The Great Reset agenda seems to fit this pattern: “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.” ― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs.

Second, I think you've keenly spotted the problem: the "rampant despiritualization of human consciousness." This source can (and should) act as an independent guide for us. For those who chose not to be sensitive to this Spirit, they will instead choose to be guided by the current System and its dictates. Embracing lies seems to corrupt the mind terribly, and perhaps accounts for the fact that many otherwise intelligent people have stupidly pledged their loyalty to this ongoing evil.

Finally, I agree with you that "system distancing is more about discernment than it is about avoidance." What I am trying to understand right now is how this relates to how we can be in the world, but not of the world (John 17:14-15)? This makes me wonder if one of the marks of the "End Times" is the inability of a Christian to follow this command? Put differently, the not-vaxx trend seems to be some kind of proto-Mark of the Beast; in the not too distant future we may not be able to buy or sell without joining the System. Perhaps the trajectory of our lives during these times is to be the best witness we can be (achieving spiritual victories), knowing that the System will physically overcome most of us (Rev. 13:7)?

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Francis Berger
6/30/2021 21:39:23

@ Magus - Good comment.

1. Yes, Solzhenitsyn observed something similar.

2. I get the sense that many highly educated and well-to-do people are so invested in the System that they see no alternative but to submit to the lies, assuming they detect the lies at all. As for more "common" folk, fear and social pressure can go a long way. Either way, I presume discerning dishonesty is difficult if one is too heavily saturated in the dishonesty oneself. Also, see today's post in reference to your observation.

3. Though we should strive to maintain intellectual and physical freedom, we must remember that the only freedom we can ever hope to fully attain in this world is spiritual freedom, mostly because spiritual freedom transcends the constraints and entropy of this world. Spiritual freedom can only be achieved through discernment and right choice (and this be specific to each individual).

The System can overcome us physically at any time, but it can only overcome us spiritually if we capitulate. We may very well find ourselves in a position where we cannot avoid being physically consumed by the Big Lies, e.g. arrests followed by physically forced pecks, or locked out of the financial system, etc. But if we recognize the Big Lies as Big Lies as we are being forced and coerced, then we will have surrendered only our bodies, not our souls.

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richard noyes
7/7/2021 17:32:55

While my wife and self may be in a relatively fortunate position in terms of physical isolation...retired, homestead in the forest near a small northern Calif. town, the problem of psychological separation from the madness is not easy. We go to town rarely, have not once worn the mask, have like-minded neighbors, no tv for 30 years,and keep to our tasks and hobbies (wife an herbalist'gardener, I make bouzoukis and flintlocks)...still, we find ourselves addicted to doom sources on the internet (corbett, ice age farmer). we have stopped going to the local Greek Orthodox church, which folded to the birdemic like all the rest.
How do we live in a human way through it all, and is the internet part of the poison?

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Francis Berger
7/7/2021 22:04:54

@ Richard - By the sounds of it, you are doing a good job.

I believe the primary purpose of our mortal lives is spiritual learning. A great deal of this spiritual learning is centered around discernment, thinking, and alignment - to be able to choose between good and evil with Christ as our guide.

We are all living through these unprecedented times, but we are all living through it with our own unique set of circumstances, opportunities, and challenges. Rather than seeing it as all doom and gloom, I think of it as a spiritual adventure.

In this sense, we live through it all by our thinking and our choices. If our thinking and our choices are aligned with God and Creation, the lies will become even more obvious and we will be able to remain faithful to Truth. And this should provide us with hope and joy, regardless of what happens in the given world.

As for the internet, it certainly is part of the poison, but with the proper discernment, much that is good can also be discovered - but this is something you must decide for yourself.

Some degree of physical isolation and separation can certainly be good things in themselves (I live in a small village in the countryside myself), but the most important thing is spiritual separation - to choose the right side and remain on it.

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