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Wonderful book, I will no longer be controlled and nudged into conformity. I refuse to drive on the left from now on I choose the middle path through the traffic. My first journey will be to cemetery where I will tell Uncle Ahmed to get up and move his lazy arse, covid is just a cold, and avoiding infection is just mind control. The next time I see a man transitioning into a woman, but not quite pulling it off I will stand in the street point and shout as it says in the book “ the emperor has no clothes on” and everyone will see the light and agree with me. My recent focus on fear follows a trajectory of interest in the taboo and what makes us who we are. You might say I went from pillow talk to nightmares. You see, it all started with the Bare Realityseries…
The book shows how we can survive in this world of manipulation by critical thinking and mindful consumption of content. There is a chapter on TV which is treated as the most successful major public technology so far utilised in the mass brainwashing of the public. One study cited, found a correlation between reports of high-profile crimes on U.S. television news and a significant increase in public belief that crime and violence were the nation's foremost problem. This presumably gives certain political parties or actors an advantage over others. PDF / EPUB File Name: Free_Your_Mind_New_World_of_Manipulation_-_Laura_Dodsworth.pdf, Free_Your_Mind_New_World_of_Manipulation_-_Laura_Dodsworth.epub Advice included frequency of exposure to green themes being bolstered by “core characters within a show so that green issues can fluently be raised time and time again”, that a family could discuss reducing their waste in a comedy show, or that a drama could include references to buying an electric vehicle. As the authors state, Sky made the startling admission that this is just the evolution of an ongoing process of social engineering, “Behaviour change via broadcasting and traditional media has historically been aimed at improving public health, boosting gender equality and reducing violence. Imagine the potential for emissions reductions if the same methods were used to encourage sustainable behaviours!” they apparently said.
Finding an authentic purpose in life is one of the most important guardrails against undue influence. This is intrinsic to the world’s religions. For the agnostic or atheist, you can find also purpose by self-individuating (as Jung called it) through meaningful work, family and community. But they do a great job of finding manipulation techniques and great examples of people like magicians and journalists where the techniques can be found then at the end of the chapters the rules are useful. Dodsworth and Fagan examine the numerous strategies used by manipulators, including huge tech corporations, politicians, and advertisements. They feature conversations with professionals in mind control, such as monks and magicians, illuminating their dishonest methods. It is more frequent that we fall into the trap of deciding on something without thinking whether we actually are in need. Now that influencers are the biggest manipulators, we need to be immune to our minds without wavering thoughts. Nowadays people know how to inject thoughts into people's minds to make them fall for it. The book explains a lot of phenomena that might seem new but actually, something we are experiencing.
Part of the problem is that it is more difficult to parse information that arrives via a TV screen, it is much better to read the written information if one wants to interrogate an argument and deploy critical thinking, a point dwelt on in the chapter that follows. The book promotes critical thinking, giving readers the tools they need to regain control and defend themselves against the relentless assault of deception in contemporary culture.In this era of Social Media, you can find tons of Influencers. How do they seek the phrase 'Influencers'? They typically inject throughts in the listener's mind about someting which in turn manipulates them to follow their words. 20 chapters in 'Free your Mind' covers various aspect like Realiziation, immunisation, overthinking, social media distancing, siding with the right aspects and much more. Sometimes we tend to think so hard, we lose our gut instinct and fall prey to our biases. You can debias the mind during any form of mindful meditation, by improving ‘interoceptive awareness’. Just one 15-minute mindfulness session can reduce the incidence of a particular cognitive bias by 34%. Counter-intuitively, to free your mind, don’t overthink it. This connection between government and broadcast media is brought up to date with a fascinating section on the ways in which behavioral science, or ‘nudging’, as it is often called in the U.K., has infiltrated the world of television programme-making. The U.K.’s Behavioural Insights Team published a report in collaboration with Sky that proposed a suite of suggestions about how programming could potentially influence the climate agenda.
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