A psyop often pivots on the power of causing angry factionation among cohorts, often, simply by highlighting (or inventing) the conceptual misbehavior of a specific actor who may or may not exist, may or may not be ‘owned’, and may or may not actually believe what is said.
The resulting ‘outrage shares’, raise the status of said actor, and can create the appearance that what that actor said or did ‘is indicative of a large or powerful group of humans’, when, in fact, it is often indicative of nearly nothing whatsoever, or, at best, a small group of ‘worst common denominator’ exemplars of human idiocy and opinionation.
In most cases, we would do well to entirely ignore these media contagions, and certainly abstain from popularizing them.
They are inherently toxic, and spreading the poison, ‘in an effort to educate’ is nearly always a disastrous choice, due to it resulting in the opposites of the effects we might hope for, and further angry factionation (fragmentation) among people who might otherwise cooperate intelligently, insightfully, and effectively.
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