Are We Being Played? 2
Stu Bykofsky note the U-turn in America’s war fever and wonders why. He considers both the beheadings in the Middle East and the Ray Rice case.
In each case, none of the facts had changed, just our perception and reaction to them.
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Founding military strategist Sun Tzu, the William Shakespeare of tactics, wrote that a crucial preliminary to battle is attacking the mind of the enemy. He proposed using spies to plant false information to create fear and confuse the enemy.
In today’s world, social media are those agents.
Do please read the rest. It’s worth thinking about.
September 12, 2014 at 11:22 am
Social media, magnified by the always eyeball trolling mainstream, has had an effect. I agree. But the Yamamoto thing as it applies to ISIS, not so applicable. Different nations. Nobody was allowed to dodge WWII in this country, you had a good chance of having to fight in the Pacific or in Europe. No the majority of the country is OK with the war because it knows it’s going to be bombing by remote control and they won’t have to fight it. The military leaders aren’t the same. Our generals are hardly the stuff of that time, they are technicians who know they can’t lose, who know they don’t get fired or relieved when they screw up, who have unlimited resources and money. And ISIS is hardly the Imperial Japanese Navy or the Wehrmacht. I fully expect to see more news of ISIS massing on the southern border, capable of everything and anything, all fictions, mostly because news of it makes money.
September 12, 2014 at 12:16 pm
I consider this the most important factor, because it enables the public to avoid responsibility. After all, it’s not their kids who die when the old men lie.