Filter Bubbles and Algorithmic Enclosures: Peer Pressure Without a Raised Voice. In my last guide I showed you how to stand against social conformity and peer pressure. This article leads directly on from that. It is a fact well known to those who know it well that I know a thing or two about information…
Standing Outside The Current: Keeping Your Judgment When the Herd Turns. Power operates through information systems and mass psychology. I’ve spent decades working with those information systems and dealing with Google’s and the media’s psychological manipulation, and I’ve come to treat social conformity as the quiet enforcement layer of every other capture. Propaganda supplies the…
Guarding your attention is potentially the most important factor of any effort to regain your mental freedom, because attention is the first resource extracted from your mind by any influence campaign, not the last. I know this because I’ve spent years working with and analyzing the Big Tech information systems that vie for that attention…
How Daily Outrage, Fear, and Moral Panic Are Used to Capture the Human Mind… and How to Interrupt Them. As someone who spent a decade and a half working with Google I’ve had a great deal of opportunity to analyze how big tech and “The Powers That Be” operate through information systems and mass psychology,…
How Political and Digital Tribes Colonize the Self, and How to Keep Your Mind Your Own. If you haven’t been completely captured yet you’ll have long-since realized that “power operates through information systems and mass psychology.” Within those systems identity capture is probably one of the most effective and least examined forms of control in…
“How Governments and Media Propagandize Populations… And How Ordinary People Can Protect Their Psychological Independence“ I’ve quite literally spent decades working with and building information systems, and examining the intersections between technology, state power, and mass psychology. So I cannot and will not treat propaganda as the historical curiosity or as a tool reserved solely…
It is a fact well known to those who know me that I’ve been operating in the computer and Internet sector for well over three and a half decades, including fifteen years as a troubleshooter for Google, solving problems for companies around the globe, including some of the world’s largest corporations. My professional time has…
