This is how the 'mandela effect' works. It's a playbook for leading public perception in a very precise way, and it was written by the UK and DoD psychological-ops working groups.
1. Post something where the image implies a conclusion that can't be assumed.
2. Attach an existing belief, or hypothesis thats not falsiable (magical thinking) in a highly polarized climate.
3. Wait for a time for the memory to fade. Years, months, or even just a few weeks
4. Reprompt the memory
5. Run controlled moderate forums, be it on mainstream sites like reddit, or on 'fringe' and 'alt' news sites. Argue about whether the event happened, and if so, what the details were.
People are now left in a state of uncertainty about reality, making adjacent unreleated events in the news (such as scandals, government overreach incidents, brutality, vastly unpopular decisions) much less likely to prompt reactions from the public. It's a completely odd effect but it works.
Another term for it is "dazzling", because it leaves people dazed even in an environment of repeated shocks, be they economic, political, or social.
Don't believe me? Lets go over the critical parts again with this photo as an example.
1. Post something where the image implies a conclusion that can't be assumed.
Assumption some of you have made, either consciously, or unconsciously. It's even better if the assumption they want isn't explicitly stated.
Assumption here: The brain sees her on the floor. It associates this with 'death'.
Oh you thought heather mcdonalds was dead?
Nope. Shes alive. Like actually alive. This was an injury she was hospitalized for. Hospitalized but not dead.
2. Attach an existing belief, or hypothesis thats not falsiable (magical thinking) in a highly polarized climate. Attached-belief: Covid vaccines kill people (incidentally, true)
If you didn't believe me and went and googled it, congratz, the part of your brain that keeps implicit memory (semantic rather than verbal), assumed a joint probability that she was dead.
3. Wait for a time for the memory to fade. Years, months, or even just a few weeks
Will you regularly recall heather mcdonald dying? No. It's part of one of the thousands of mini-experiments tech companies run for Darpa (like Facebook admitted) in their narrative-management psychological warfare programs used against Americans and westerners. And if it turns out that it is such a program, or even if it's not, this is an irrelevant celebrity factoid that will become background noise in peoples lives until its brought back up at some point weeks, months, or years down the line.
Also, something that didn't happen is much harder to remember than something that did.
And this is the crux of how the mindhack works.
1. the implicit (semantic) representation of the event (you assume she died) overrides explicit information about the event.
2. This effect is enhanced ESPECIALLY when some counter-evidence isn't presented (the information that she didn't die).
masuji 5 points 3.2 years ago
This is how the 'mandela effect' works. It's a playbook for leading public perception in a very precise way, and it was written by the UK and DoD psychological-ops working groups.
1. Post something where the image implies a conclusion that can't be assumed.
2. Attach an existing belief, or hypothesis thats not falsiable (magical thinking) in a highly polarized climate.
3. Wait for a time for the memory to fade. Years, months, or even just a few weeks
4. Reprompt the memory
5. Run controlled moderate forums, be it on mainstream sites like reddit, or on 'fringe' and 'alt' news sites. Argue about whether the event happened, and if so, what the details were.
People are now left in a state of uncertainty about reality, making adjacent unreleated events in the news (such as scandals, government overreach incidents, brutality, vastly unpopular decisions) much less likely to prompt reactions from the public. It's a completely odd effect but it works.
Another term for it is "dazzling", because it leaves people dazed even in an environment of repeated shocks, be they economic, political, or social.
Don't believe me? Lets go over the critical parts again with this photo as an example.
1. Post something where the image implies a conclusion that can't be assumed.
Assumption some of you have made, either consciously, or unconsciously. It's even better if the assumption they want isn't explicitly stated.
Assumption here: The brain sees her on the floor. It associates this with 'death'.
Oh you thought heather mcdonalds was dead?
Nope. Shes alive. Like actually alive. This was an injury she was hospitalized for. Hospitalized but not dead.
2. Attach an existing belief, or hypothesis thats not falsiable (magical thinking) in a highly polarized climate.
Attached-belief: Covid vaccines kill people (incidentally, true)
If you didn't believe me and went and googled it, congratz, the part of your brain that keeps implicit memory (semantic rather than verbal), assumed a joint probability that she was dead.
3. Wait for a time for the memory to fade. Years, months, or even just a few weeks
Will you regularly recall heather mcdonald dying? No. It's part of one of the thousands of mini-experiments tech companies run for Darpa (like Facebook admitted) in their narrative-management psychological warfare programs used against Americans and westerners. And if it turns out that it is such a program, or even if it's not, this is an irrelevant celebrity factoid that will become background noise in peoples lives until its brought back up at some point weeks, months, or years down the line.
Also, something that didn't happen is much harder to remember than something that did.
And this is the crux of how the mindhack works.
1. the implicit (semantic) representation of the event (you assume she died) overrides explicit information about the event.
2. This effect is enhanced ESPECIALLY when some counter-evidence isn't presented (the information that she didn't die).