Linguistic Programming-The Truth

By The Truth Reporter,

The average Unity News reader is, I would like to think a little more aware about the way the world works than most but my topic today is one that has been pushed into the ‘conspiracy’ box when in fact it is very much fact. The problem has arisen because some people in their drive to ram their point home have overused the facts and made claims that those facts cannot support.
There are people on the internet who will tell you that linguistic programming or neurolinguistic programming as it is sometimes called is some kind of Jedi mind control tool which can render
people open to direct manipulation of their thoughts and actions. This is where the truth is not so simple and where those who would like us to think these techniques do not exist can gain traction
by labelling anyone who raises issues about LP as a swivel-eyed lunatic.

The truth is that these techniques are powerful , very insidious and have been with us for a very long time indeed. The proof comes from the fact that this phenomenon has been examined, studied and quantified by psychologists for the last four decades. In 1974 Loftus and Palmer published a paper which, unless you’re a psychology student you won’t have seen. I’ve provided a link below which gives a good overview of its content but I’ll précis as best I can below.

Words have emotions attached to them, we know this intuitively from everyday interactions. We’re all used to varying our words to show how we feel. We’ve all used harsh or colourful language from time to time to get our feelings across to the people we speak to. If we examine this more closely you’ll see you can if you try use words that mean the exact same thing but carry varying amounts of emotion along with them.

In the classic experiment 4 groups of people are shown images of car accidents and are asked to estimate the speed of the collision. The only variation is the word they use to describe how the
vehicles ended up in the accident. Those words were :- contacted, hit, bumped, collided and smashed. The speeds that people estimate go up in the responses as the language becomes more graphic, with ‘smashed’ getting the highest score. This again is intuitive since if I said ‘I have just contacted your car’ you wouldn’t worry too much, but if I said ‘I’ve just smashed your car’ you might be more concerned.

Now comes the interesting part, and crucially this is what the powerful did with that research and how they have created a methodology of control using these techniques. If you want to examine how people are trained to use these techniques then there is no better example than our old friend David Cameron. Just as an exercise have a look at his media output in
the early days before he was in government and then compare this to when he is giving interviews as Prime Minister. I have provided a link to a video that illustrates my point.

Notice as the years progress he starts using some definite techniques, he starts to look directly at who he is addressing. If there is a camera present he looks into it and adopts a set gaze and firm
posture, noticeably squaring his shoulders. He repeatedly uses the term ‘IT IS RIGHT’ to precede many of his statements. Never forget Cameron was a PR man and you can see his delivery develop as his career progressed. The video is fascinating because in his early days in the spotlight he wasn’t that impressive at all, in fact he looks so bland that you can begin to understand how the elites work.

The elites need puppets, they hate being on TV themselves, they rarely if ever are on TV at all. This is why people like Cameron are useful to them to push the narratives they want people to swallow. In return for that task they are given money, status and fat pensions but the minute they fail or have served their purpose you’ll notice they simply fade from view.

Returning to LP, you might be interested to know there is an entire government department dedicated to this, it’s called the ‘Behavioural Insights Team’ which itself is a linguistic label designed
to make it sound innocuous but the team is more commonly referred to as the ‘nudge unit’ which is a clue to their purpose. Imagine you’re in government and you need the people to toe the line and do what they’re told, now you could put extra police on the streets, or maybe get the people to police themselves by leading them to behave in the way you want them to using language – one way is much cheaper, I’ll let you guess which.

Here’s an example, suppose you want to increase compliance with recycling. Traditionally councils used to threaten people that unless the rubbish was sorted properly there would be a fine but these punitive schemes were not working. The behavioural insights team came up with a new approach, they force people to compare themselves to others using language. So instead they went with slogans such as ‘92% of people in your area now sort their rubbish’. By making you think that you’re now somehow in a degenerate minority of only 8% people that fail to comply they changed recycling rates in the areas where they ran these slogans.

You can read all about the Behavioural Insights Team on their glossy website, bi.team – have a look and see if you agree with me that it is big brother dressed up in glossy public relations.
This is a huge subject and today I apologise for only being able to scratch the surface but I urge people to research into these techniques, they’re real and they’re being used by mainstream news,
governments and others to shape your thinking. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to spot the manipulation once you know what the techniques are. Rather like a magic trick loses it’s mystery
once you know how it is performed, so can you start to see how these people operate.

 

The classic experiment explained

https://www.simplypsychology.org/loftus-palmer.html

The evolution of Cameron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvrknKmlMXI