What a fascinating series of thoughts and lines of inquiry.
My question is: how do they develop the "type" for their simmads? Their fake baddies?
Is it a demographic that they stuff into a sim-personality?
Are they riffing off a real-life activist in order to subliminally make people uncomfortable
when (s)he enters a room? (Discredit by mass hypnosis?)
On a multitude of occasions throughout the course of any self-respecting intellectual's life, there comes
a need to re-asses one's own ideology, values and general worldview. In these instances, it is a common
practice to make attempts to observe oneself as objectively as possible to ascertain that all available manners of
thoroughness are in employ, then moving forward accordingly. One of the questions I think a lot of intellectuals are all but forced
to ask themselves is: "Can everybody really be this stupid/shallow/generic?"; and, after having entertained both the naive and the cynical
ends of that spectrum---a.) C'mon, there's no way people are that stupid, and here's why, or b.) Sigh. People really are
that stupid. C'est la vie---they often emerge from the ocean of possibilities with a murky combination of befuddlement and disillusionment. Perhaps the pessimism
and the hopeful-ness engendered by such thinking is but another layer of mankind's dualistic nature, but that is another conversation in its entirety; although, equally murky.
In regard to THIS conversation, however, I feel as though having an understanding as to the nuanced nature of humanity is tantamount to reaching any
sort of conclusive, intellectually-sound resolution in terms of the oft-archetypically-oriented nature of the events and characters our media/government/military are attempting to sell to us.
To that effect, no matter what you conclude about the depth of intelligence of most humans, it is certainly obvious that, in almost every single one of these psyops,
there is an undeniably present element of the lowest common denominator.
So, to answer your question, I would opine that there is perhaps a think-tank in place to qualify the texture of any given populace's intellectual and emotional susceptibilities.
After having cast any sort of blanketing idea onto the bed of a culture's/country's/world's tendencies toward thought, it can then be broken down into discernible yet broad categories based on the nature
of the reactions to the initial offering.
Thus far---and, correct me if I am wrong---most of these experiments have been rather "sweeping", and have yet to become so specific as to target, say, vegan astrophysicists.
If I were to ask the question you asked, it would be re-stated as: Why are all of these people so repulsively surface-level these days when the depths of human psychology are so incredibly vast? Don't the F.B.I., C.I.A., N.S.A., D.O.J., D.H.S. and various police departments have professional psychologists on-hand to develop "profiles" on any manner suspects at a mere glance?
It's almost as if they're...*gasps*....typecasting!
Let's say I wanted to affect change in a particular people's understanding of religious history toward one direction or the other. Certainly, I am going to focus my
attention on airing television programs, instigating debates, proposing laws and faking news stories centered on the most basic possible questions their culture is throwing around regarding the subject at hand.
Roughly 38% of my assets of influence will be aimed toward one end of the spectrum, 38% to the converse, 6% toward those who are capable of seeing beyond false dichotomies (those damned, wretched "intellectuals" who
only need to be spoken to from someone of academic prestige to be satiated and, as such, will be pleased by the "scientific research" and "scientific studies" funded by companies and circles
which cannot be traced back to me), 9% toward demonizing anyone who attempts to travel outside of my paradigm (which ends up being more than an "expressed" 9% of my assets due to
the inflagrant nature of it, and the fact that my other assets will be covering the machinations of this asset) and, finally, 9% toward damage control and data-gathering.
Now, I'm certainly not breaking any ground with what I am saying, but I think these types of perspectives (the viewpoints of a strategist of any kind) offer, if nothing else, a necessary touch of reinforcement and/or reasonable doubt regarding the many interpretations of what seems to be the current function of our media.
note: I will correct any errors within this post tomorrow.
note: Has anyone looked into "The Supervisor" who reported the "Neil Edwin Prescott" character's phone call?