Reading this weeks chapter about how the media can't really change perspectives but can enhance them by catering to them really reminds me of the current Special Operations Forces that we have and how they are doing psychological operations across the world and have been doing so for quite a while. Here's one example of the C.I.A working in the Phillipines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pfsSh_fTAc
Pretty scary stuff. But something you would expect out of the U.S during the Cold War. And to think that this is the stuff that they DECIDED to release to the public. Anyways, they most certainly exploited the superstitions to their advantage. In Psychological Operations they adhere to the idea that you can't change people's minds either. There was another thing that I am reminded of that plays into stereotypes, although it is about our superstitions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uNPZKJqbE8
The title of the commercial "Ghosts in the Machine" really says it all as it plays in on all of our conspiratorial beliefs like the illuminati and the idea of the U.S starting revolutions in distant countries (that one, though, is more routed in reality). In the end it encourages people to come join them in the most creepy but probably effective way to date (ignoring Emma and her two moms).
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