https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/box-c9a573ca7283

The US (and perhaps nearly all modern ‘nations’) are Potemkin Villages (and ‘social media’ is existing as and expressing a network of similar structures) … whose primary activities involve The Reverse Pinocchio Gambit…

Reverse Pinocchio: (colloquialism):

A confidence trick whose object is the conversion of real human beings into victims, automatons, slaves, or conscripts. This is generally accomplished by compelling deception, coercion or compulsion. In common (false) cultures, converts adopt positions in multiply conflicted verbal and fictional ‘status’ frameworks such as corporations or cults.

Any situation that inclines, compels or rewards people for counterfeiting their humanity, origin, nature, potentials, and intelligence.

‘Marionetting’ or “Puppeting” (slang). The intentional process of deceptively compromising persons, groups or living places. The result becomes new kinds of manipulable assets.

“What we need here is to be able to simply tell people what we want them to be or do, and have them obey without question or hesitation, preferably voluntarily.”

The Reverse Pinocchio Gambit converts human persons and cultures to manipulable ‘subjects’. This has been done with ecologies for at least a few hundred years, but it is now simpler to do something similar with disoriented populations.