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MIT Media Lab giving out $250K cash prize for disobedience

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Re: MIT Media Lab giving out $250K cash prize for disobedience

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As my act of disobedience I am going to accuse MIT of covertly launching a disinformation op with the cooperation of the CIA to influence American public opinion.

This award is that op.

I am accusing MIT of collaboration with a government intelligence agency. This is hardly surprising, but it is EMBARRASSING and vandals should take the opportunity to HUMILIATE the MIT Media Lab for their cooperation.

Cooperating with an intelligence agency to execute an overt public diplomacy op is CHILLING speech.

When the government gets into an industry (such as subliminal influence of the American public) it tends to push all other potential competitors out. This means that if people think the CIA is involved in organizing this, potential competitors for the narrative are going to get very very nervous.

There is a very specific "feel good" narrative structure to CIA-compatible documentaries. These documentaries often chronicle political or historical events in foreign nations. You will see this narrative structure on the news and in programs such as VICE and Frontline PBS.

The British government promotes the "benevolent empire" narrative along with the USA. Since people in the USA and England speak the same language, the public diplomacy has to be compatible. This means that the UK and the USA are constantly telling each other that they are both a force for good in the world and that their activities are directed to creating a world that is more free and just.

The reality is that this award is Ministry of Truth 1984-level stupid. Really Really Really fucking stupid.

Really. Fucking. Stupid.

When a 500 lb. gorilla is banging its chest, you sit there and watch it quietly. When a retarded ape with next generation communication technology stuck in its head starts banging its chest, you sit there and hang your head in SHAME.

If you want disobedience, you start discussing organizational death stars in public. These are zersetzung operations designed to destroy the organs of people in critical decision-making capacities at organizations through stress and sociological effects.

If you want disobedience, you get very scientific about destroying social relationships that exist in the organization you want to destroy. If an organization needs to have a good relationship between subsystem X and subsystem Y, you attack that.

This is, in a sense, the opposite of capitalism. Instead of building corporations that solve problems, specific problems are created in corporations that will cause them to fail under certain conditions. Once those problems are created, the conditions are allowed to develop and the corporation fails.

If you can get an online mob to agree to destroy a relationship that exists between two parts of an organization, and if law enforcement is out-intimidated and can't do anything about it when the public, politicians, diplomats, senators, etc... complain, then you have leverage over all of corporate america. you just have to keep records and send the results of your op to the boards of the companies you want to target.

Let me state for the record (this should be obvious) that this is 100% pure evil.

This word "disobedience", I do not think it means what you think it means. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhXjcZdk5QQ

Disobedience means making a list of the children of the rotten scum who work at financial services corporations and then engineering their suicide.

Let me make this clear: I point at a kid and I say, "how do I get that kid to kill himself or herself"?

When I say engineered suicide, I mean murdering children by database. I mean subliminal influence of the decision-makers in the life of that child. I mean making the parents of that child HATE the fact they had a child. I mean WRECKING lives for the simple act of having a child.

Re: MIT Media Lab giving out $250K cash prize for disobedience

#13
post #4

Perhaps they could've given it to Aaron Swartz to support the legal issues they threw him in as a result of his responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging our norms, rules, or laws to benefit society. I'm half-tempted to nominate him as an act of disobedience.

Can't agree more.

The irony is painful.

Re: MIT Media Lab giving out $250K cash prize for disobedience

#14
post #4

Perhaps they could've given it to Aaron Swartz to support the legal issues they threw him in as a result of his responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging our norms, rules, or laws to benefit society. I'm half-tempted to nominate him as an act of disobedience.

excellent idea.

i'm surprised this award doesn't bear his name

i'm even more surprised that his name is not mentioned anywhere in the MIT publication article

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