Agit Prop Inception

September 11, 2023

Though many might see it as an indication of progress for someone to at least suspect that the information they are receiving may be some form of propaganda, it becomes infinitely more complex to to contemplate whether teh suspicion of being subjected to propaganda might itself be the goal of a propagandist's attack.

Layers of subversion help to embed someone in a pitfall of active measures such that even the realization or allegation of one having been manipulated can itself serve in the interests of the entity that organized or deployed the attack in question.

Let's brainstorm and disambiguate such potential operations:

Simple Division

The mere expectation that the information disseminated within one's group, milieu of association, etc will cause one to suspect that those who are allies and of like mind are actually some form of controlled opposition

Faux Rivalry

Simulated or feigned competition within one's group will damage cohesion and make it more difficult for that group to organize and respond to an attack from a veritable threat

Trump vs De Santis) => Team De Santis

Agit-prop Turtles

"Turtles all the way down" An endless cycle of manufactured discovery of propaganda attacks where the realization of subversion is always permitted such that the target enters into a new state of subversion.

Foreign Fiction

Perhaps the most classically recognizable (1984) is the concept of a foreign enemy to act as the object of one's hate, hope and despair, allowing one to fall victim to the real enemy on home turf while one is endlessly consumed with the fiction

Mock Patterns

One becomes armed with a means of recognizing an enemy pattern, such as an aesthetic and ideological system or system of rationale, but is then constantly bombarded with synthetic representations of these patterns without the inclination or opportunity to analyze these instantiations to a profound degree of verification.

Broken Faith Systems

What is presented as an authentic operation from the opposing group/entity is actually valuable because it allows or compels you to lose faith as to whether a just resolution is even possible within the current terms of the system. This may not seem as much of an inception agitprop event except that the operation is ostensibly one which appears to be pursued for a set of reasons of manufacturing false evidence or representation of the target and its interests.

graph TD
  A[Right] -->|being pushed| B(Reaction)
  B -->|One| C[Do nothing]
  B -->|Two| D[React]
  C --> Weak
  D --> Violent

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