In this section, I look into the murky world of PsyOps / Psychological and Information Warfare Operations.
With the world swamped with noise from misinformation, disinformation, and fake news together with strategically planned psychological and information-based warfare operations sense-making is difficult. I look to figure out why and what we can do to protect ourselves from it.
In this article I look at the Reticular Activating System
So why is fear so addictive and used by social media, tech, government, and big business to refocus your attention?
First, let’s look at something called the Reticular Activating System. I was looking for a way to describe this and came across this Medium article by Tobias van Schneider titled “If you want it, you might get it. The Reticular Activating System explained” which is well worth a read and explains it as follows:
“The Reticula
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