"Weapons of Mass Consumption..."
- Aaron X.
- Feb 8, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 14, 2024
A documentary:
Subliminals and other psychological techniques and behavioral manipulation or alteration techniques used in advertising and Machine Learning Algorithms to increase buying and spending behaviors:
-Behavioral advertising/microtargeted advertising
-neuro-marketing
-ad-ception
-demographic targeting and audience/polarization
-Late-stage capitalism and advertising monopolies
-Lowering impulse control means better consumers...
The long-term and short-term effects of advertising techniques which utilize the above especially in consideration of early to late-stage childhood development and humanistic psychological truisms which pre-date the Information Age:
-The developing mind through the human life cycle in the Information Age...
-"Adaptations of Thought" from an evolutionary psychological perspective...
-Adaptations to environment by a species leads to evolution, theoretically...
The long-term and short-term effects on the human mind over the lifespan both individually and societally and the possible irreparable damage caused by the intentional manipulation of the individual/social consciousness and sub-consciousness with previously stated technologies resultant in causal behaviors. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress/Tort of Outrage caused by, again, the above stated technologies without a feasible means of qualitative assessment to ascertain causality in litigation for reparation. Also, these distresses prempted and inhumanely mitigated through limited liability clauses and cumulative liability clauses.
Historical Overview:
-Advertising vs. Propaganda
-World War II and Hitler’s use of propaganda
-Psychological Operation's considerations:
--Acts of War on a Civilian population...
-Crimes against Humanity:
-article 51(2) of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, which states:
The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence, the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population, are prohibited.
Purpose:
This documentary is to raise awareness about advertising, the internet, artificial intelligence, and social media and its current and potential capabilities so that we can not only take back control of our minds, but our children's minds as well.
The Intro
(Morpheus Matrix chair scene)
“Do you think you control your mind?”
“Do you think you choose what you like?”
“Do you think your kids control their minds?”
-10 second pause for introspection fade to black:
1990's Michael Jordan Gatorade commercial shrinks into upper right corner followed by another prolific ad and another and another until the screen is full of advertisements playing than in black letters over these images:
Weapons of Mass Consumption (chiller font)
References
Human Rights Watch. (2002, October). Erased in A Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against
Israeli Civilians. Https://Www.Hrw.Org. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/isrl-
pa/ISRAELPA1002-04.htm
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention. (1977, June 8). Https://Treaties.Un.Org.
Shmueli, G. (2020, August 26). “Improving” prediction of human behavior using
behavior modification. Https://Www.Arxiv.Org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12138