Your networks will become more personally meaningful and influential in your life.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 24, 2020
They will educate you and protect you and give you meaning in a way that today\u2019s institutions can not.
Networks will replace institutions.
Our institutions are failing.
You need a strong network to survive.
The #LiminalOrder is the fastest growing all men's network in the country.
Are you ready to become happier, healthier, + wealthier?
Tomorrow is your chance.
Step 1: join the list.
https://t.co/IFoLVqX2DA
Themes in 2021:
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 28, 2020
- homesteading
- info homesteading
- strategic disconnection
- info militias
- off bad grids
- on good grids
- sovereignty
- masculinity
- brotherhood
- network calibration
- networks over institutions
Our institutions are captured and failing.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 29, 2020
You must rely on your network for survival.
If you don\u2019t have a network...
You better find one.
Universities
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 29, 2020
Public health
Media
K-12 education
Mental health
Science
Government
Tech
Media
All captured.
All corrupted.
All condemned.
These institutions used to keep you safe.
Now they harm you.
And it will get worse \U0001f4af
Solution?
Networks.
May you find yours now.
Emergent networks will become more powerful than the old line institutions. It is the way. https://t.co/FWSqQixX1F
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 24, 2020
Institutions have been captured.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) December 19, 2020
Networks must become more powerful.
This is the way.
We counted on our elites to process information and make decisions for us.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) April 3, 2020
They failed us.
They will continue to fail us.
The world is too complex. Our institutions too rigid. The process of reorienting on the fly is too slow.
We make bad decisions and stick with them.
The era of indiscriminate connection is over.
— Jack Murphy \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 \u2694\ufe0f (@jackmurphylive) April 3, 2020
The tide turns towards strategic disconnection.
We don\u2019t need to be connected to everything. Not every thing needs to go every place. And not every idea needs a free pass into your brain.
Curation now trumps connection.
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And yet authoritarians often broadcast silly, unpersuasive propaganda.
Political scientist Haifeng Huang writes that the purpose of propaganda is not to brainwash people, but to instill fear in them /2
"propaganda is often not used for indoctrination, but rather to signal the government\u2019s strength in being able to afford significant resources and impose on its citizens...not meant to 'brainwash', but rather to forewarn the society about how strong it is" https://t.co/mFAurhEHeO pic.twitter.com/WXKKJaPqWQ
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 18, 2020
When people are bombarded with propaganda everywhere they look, they are reminded of the strength of the regime.
The vast amount of resources authoritarians spend to display their message in every corner of the public square is a costly demonstration of their power /3
In fact, the overt silliness of authoritarian propaganda is part of the point. Propaganda is designed to be silly so that people can instantly recognize it when they see it
Authoritarians do not use propaganda for brainwashing, "but to demonstrate their strength in social control...propaganda may need to be dull and unpersuasive, to make sure citizens know it is propaganda when they see it and hence get the implicit message" https://t.co/PqRpxjaIPL pic.twitter.com/1y67d2RCjB
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 19, 2020
Propaganda is intended to instill fear in people, not brainwash them.
The message is: You might not believe in pro-regime values or attitudes. But we will make sure you are too frightened to do anything about it.
I was half kidding. I also assumed someone would think of what I did pretty quickly and waiting for the comment to mention what I assumed was obvious.
The timing. I was sure someone else had thought of it.
Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for 'work-life balance' https://t.co/6aq9cnGfPG pic.twitter.com/3OmmaHKORx
— New York Post (@nypost) February 19, 2021
But no one did. 20+ comments in people discussed the morality or bad sense or libertarian perspectives. Someone even said I’m thinking about doing that. No one said what I thought was obvious. Have you thought of it? Is it obvious to you?
Here’s a clue...recognize it?
How about this?
The author discusses it with Mike Wallace in 1958