Controlling the information

[Wawannabe]

Dictators control by controlling the information - this NBC news article published in 2011 is about classical dictators traits but in the first few paragraphs you might realize that somebody in a big house with columns in the DC area might have realized this could be useful for personal gain (because he has always done this narrative control) and got some really fucking dumb ideas in his head.

Or an enigmatic leader from another country knows this also and hatches a plan using a wannabe dictator, freak.

Either way by controlling the information they are controlling the narrative!


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45751914/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/how-dictators-keep-control/

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How Dictators Keep Control
By Eric Niiler
Discovery Channel
Images of North Korean women (and some men) weeping inconsolably at news of the death of strongman Kim Jong-Il was perhaps not surprising in a country where obedience is expected and much of the society, experts say, followed their "Dear Leader" because it has been in their collective best interest to do so.

But how do dictators like Kim -- or Saddam Hussein, or Hitler or Stalin for that matter -- maintain power over their people?

Psychologists and sociologists who study terrorism say dictators are able to spread fear among their people, and place themselves as their only salvation. Manufacturing an external threat, like Jews to Hitler's Germany, or the entire West for Kim, help keep the society off balance and collectively paranoid as well. ***

—...more at link.

[erronis]

1. Amazing. I was reading this thinking it nailed today. But published in 2012.

"For the personality disorders, it appeared that a 'big six' emerged: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal," Coolidge and Singer wrote. "All three dictators also showed evidence of psychotic thought processes."

Thanks for the reference.

[crickets]

2. K&R for visibility

[saidsimplesimon]

3. Thank you for posting this.

If only we had a fly on the wall (equipped to record and transmit directly to all of US). I want to know why Lavrov is in our White House and a transcript of their meeting.

I hold this louse who would be king in utter contempt.