Author: Phil
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The Illusion of Expertise
A commonly overlooked aspect of expertise is the ability to recognize and understand corruption. Many individuals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise often comes with a significant blind spot: a naive trust in institutions and a failure to grasp the pervasive nature of institutional corruption. The problem lies in specialization itself. Read more
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UK Government Use of Behavioural Science Strategies in Covid-Event Messaging
Throughout the Covid event the UK Government, in keeping with many other countries, drew on behavioural-science interventions – often referred to as ‘nudges’ – to strengthen their public-health communications, and thereby increase compliance with the pandemic restrictions and subsequent vaccine roll-out. These psychological methods of persuasion often operate below people’s conscious awareness, and frequently rely Read more
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“Nudging”: Here’s How Your Habits Are Being Hijacked for Profit
We’re not just being influenced anymore. We’re being nudged – engineered, in fact. This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Nudging is simple, effective, and now even profitable behavioural science in action. It was originally developed by psychologists and economists to – in theory – help people make better choices. But now nudging is everywhere. It’s widespread Read more
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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power. This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, Read more
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A very good book about propaganda, called ‘One Idea to Rule Them All’ by Michelle Stiles
Stiles begins by building out a historical foundation of the last 130+ years of propaganda techniques:1 Stiles outlines the history following World War One, reminding us that there was a brief and futile pushback against the use of propaganda by the government against the people. The Institute for Propaganda Analysis was formed in 1938, dedicated Read more
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The State Corporatist Media Coup Revealed. “Mass Censorship – Weapons of Mass Deletion”
The Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz (here summarised with commentary) is probably the greatest expose of the activities of that globalist corporatism which is destroying democratic nations, provoking war abroad and a totalitarian war against their own people at home – hand in glove with the modern high tech industries and the old “legacy” Read more
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The Modern Slave
Most people hear ‘modern slavery’ and picture trafficking victims or sweatshop workers—suffering that’s clearly visible, obviously wrong, and comfortably distant from their daily lives. What if the most effective slavery in history isn’t hidden—but public, celebrated, and defended by the very people it enslaves? This isn’t about personal hardship or material deprivation. Many people living Read more
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Biometric bondage: How government-backed wearables threaten mental well being, bodily autonomy and freedom
The right to privacy—once a cornerstone of American liberty—is crumbling under the weight of algorithmic authoritarianism. What began as voluntary health tracking has morphed into a full-scale assault on bodily autonomy, with government and corporate overlords poised to seize control of our most intimate biological data. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Secretary of Health and Read more
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MAHA, Wearables and the War for Embodied Consciousness
While some people may genuinely benefit from wearables for managing chronic conditions or maintaining motivation, the broader trajectory moves us away from bodily intelligence. Consider the pipeline already emerging: wearable detects irregularity → automated medication reminder → insurance adjusts your premium employer questions your productivity → economic survival depends on biometric obedience. Your device doesn’t Read more
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Neoliberalism’s Playbook: Control, Crisis and Compliance. Endgame Logic of Late Capitalism.
Neoliberalism has run its course, resulting in the impoverishment of large sections of the population. But to dampen dissent and lower expectations, the levels of personal freedom we have been used to will not be tolerated. This means that the wider population will be subjected to the discipline of an emerging surveillance state. To push Read more