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‘The Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas’ - Ed Jewett - 18-10-2011
The Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas'
October 18th, 2011Via: Wired:Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller's art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing "incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities," was the province of the American storyteller. A machine might imitate simple formulas behind yarns, but never quite master them.
The Pentagon's freewheeling research arm is hoping to prove Twain wrong. Darpa is asking scientists to "take narratives and make them quantitatively analyzable in a rigorous, transparent and repeatable fashion." The idea is to detect terrorists who have been indoctrinated by propaganda. Then, the Pentagon can respond with some messages of its own.
The program is called "Narrative Networks." By understanding how stories have shaped your mind, the Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas, a neuroscience researcher involved in the project tells Danger Room. With this knowledge, the military can also target groups vulnerable to terrorists' recruiting tactics with its own counter-messaging.
"Stories are important in security contexts," Darpa said in an Oct. 7 solicitation for research proposals. Stories "change the course of insurgencies, frame negotiations, play a role in political radicalization, influence the methods and goals of violent social movements." The desire to study narratives has been simmering for a while in the Defense Department. A Darpa workshop in April to discuss the "neurobiology of narratives" added momentum to this project.
In the first 18-month phase of the program, the Pentagon wants researchers to study how stories infiltrate social networks and alter our brain circuits. One of the stipulated research goals: to "explore the function narratives serve in the process of political radicalization and how they can influence a person or group's choice of means (such as indiscriminant violence) to achieve political ends."
Posted in COINTELPRO, Social Engineering, Surveillance, Technology
‘The Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas’ - Charles Drago - 19-10-2011
All propaganda is story-driven.
Even OUR propaganda: Note Oliver Stone's description of JFK as a "counter-myth to the Warren Commission's myth."
Some recent examples of THEIR propaganda that jump to mind immediately:
Pat Tillman
Jessica Lynch
Barack Obama
‘The Pentagon hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas’ - Ed Jewett - 20-10-2011
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