QUESTION EVERYTHING
Australia is an amazing country with amazing people. We are blessed with so much. So what is going wrong? Why does the nation feel like it is going down the drain? Why do the leaders seem so useless? Surely it is not all incompetence.
I will leave that answer for you to work out. What I want to share instead is this: your point of view, your beliefs, have been fought over since you were a child. Governments and others deliberately shape the message you receive so that you end up holding certain beliefs.
Propaganda, public relations, nudging and psychological operations run every single day through the media, and what they are after is your mind and your behaviour.
Understanding that is the first step to liberation. The second step is to question all of it. Everything. Do your own research. Question your own beliefs. Ask how you have been shaped. Is that true, or is it rubbish?
From the memo: the US Army defines psychological operations as planned operations to convey selected information to audiences in order to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning and ultimately their behaviour. It was renamed Military Information Support Operations in 2010, and has since gone back to PSYOP. Military deception aimed at enemy commanders is as old as war. The operations set out in the memo are different in kind, because their audiences are publics — foreign, allied, and domestic.
Question everything.