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Throughout human history, governments have been interested in "mastering the human domain" - in fully understanding how to control the minds of their populations.
In 2015, DARPA's "Narrative Networks" (or N2) program is in full swing.
The project is intended to analyze how "narratives" play into human psychology, delving into the way these constructs affect the mind.
A narrative is a way of phrasing something, a choice of words, for example, that is likely a biased strategy to frame information.
They discussed,
Mastery of "narratives" could potentially be used to manipulate the perception of a population using platforms of communication like television to subtly and potently make a person think a certain way.
Many people know this tactic by a more familiar term: propaganda.
In addition to narratives, the study focused on fear.
Researchers observed a phenomenon of "tunnel vision," or impaired reasoning, triggered in the brain when suspects processed, for example, a suspenseful moment in a movie.
As the Washington Post summarized,
It is likely that predatory actions of war could come out of this particular accumulation of knowledge.
The U.S. Military has a long history of funding psychological experiments, some entrenched in human rights violations (like the experiments performed during the Project MKUltra era).
Now we have the Pentagon-funded DARPA program, which pays researchers at colleges and other scientists millions of dollars to enhance and bolster methods of war. Such work places great technological power in the hands of a demonstrably criminal government and military.
DARPA paying geniuses to work for them could be considered an exploitation of intellectual capability to further consolidate government and military power.
This is but a sliver of information in the full timeline of the U.S. Military's acquisition of propaganda techniques, but even that smallest sliver of information is a necessary piece of the puzzle.
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