Comments by "bobby hans" (@user-oc7ll9sv5r) on "GBPPR2"
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We NEED to understand this :
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA attacks its target by just being between the gray areas of what is the truth and lies that small crack between the two ; between the light and the dark; between the cracks of the open spaces: in other words they mislead by false appearances and illusions and those doubt and confusing is the order of the day !
And that's why it is so effective, as it is neither lies or truth, is not half truths or half lies; its all of the above and none of the above !!!
It is not made to make you believe in anything or disbelieve anything, it's made to make you doubt and distrust your own reality of what you have of experience about your own society what the world , society has objectivity shown you to be truth, you start to doubt your own society there is no objectivity grounded facts and truth ; everything is subjective and floating, nothing is clear-cut no universal truth.
Russian propaganda just sows enough doubt and confusion, that you just ignore your own thoughts of what you know is true and therefore rocks with your internal conviction and your physical sense of being ! It doesn't try to make you believe anything but to trust nothing and doubt everything around you .. !
In the shadow world of the Kremlin's FSB its called Active measures, and it's psychological subversion and confusion management at its highest level ; what some ppl. may call gaslighting but fare more sophisticated than so !
Its not intelligence collection the FSB and GRU is doing when they run such psychological propaganda operations, but subversion of the countries populace minds and their reality : "active measures " is made to weaken the targets moral , to drive wedges in the the targets community alliances of all sorts, sow discord among allies, to weaken the western systems in the eyes of its own populace.
What Russian propaganda tries to do is mentally turn YOU into one of those "prisoners in the cave" like in Plato's Allegory of the Cave from Plato's Republic (in the theory of forms ) , you see shadows and reflections of what they show you and a twisted from of reality is then reality a type of distorted the truth and facts ; the light and truth has become "shadows on a wall " where you are not sure anymore and started to think and doubt facts and truth believing that maybe up is down, white is black, left is right; truth is lies and fact is fiction !!
And those you will find yourself a solace in your own ignorances and doubt and in some cases you may even choose to be hostile to anyone that challenges whatever preconceptions and notions of doubt you have being gaslighted into thinking is the " truth ( "shadows on a wall " so to speak ) !!!
You have been victimized and programmed by Russian propaganda to believe or disbelieve whatever is the kremlin narrative, you have became a dubious fool that is " on the horns of a dilemma" and you end up in rejecting grounded norms and truth and just willing become accepting of what suites the kremlin narrative; you start repeating Kremlin talking points like a parrot and you are more or less incapable of critical independent sovereign thinking a cognitive dissonance prevails; you will struggle to gain the knowledge and enlightenment needed to analyze contradictory statements !
The target (civilized western world) " western societies populace and you are drained down into a muddy murky abyss of contradictory statements; in other words subversion of the target society (and YOU ) at this point is complete and your ability to illuminate your own thoughts and find truth is destroyed and the path for enlightenment critical thinking is therefore almost impossible..
THIS IS WHAT RUSSIANS FSB AND GRU CALL ACTIVE MEASURES !!
Like the Danish philosopher SØREN KIERKEGAARD once said ;
There are two ways to be fooled , one is to believe what ISN'T TRUE ; The other is to REFUSE to believe what is TRUE !!
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