Word Association

Word association can be used to make a person believe something they normally would not do. Furthermore, it turns off the part of the brain that is critical and analytical. This is similar to the Pavlovian Effect where if you ring a bell and a dog will salivate because it knows the bell represents food he will soon get. It is also important that you have seen the movie Inception, but I will explain the basic points needed.

Words and pictures can be used to represent something. Instead of having a sign that says "There are children who play or cross around here for school, slow down and be watchful of them," there is simply a sign that shows two children walking. We are trained or taught along the way what that symbol means. It can also be used to make you believe that a symbol means something it does not. The same can be said for words.

As an example, we will use (Killing)-->(Bad)

You are told from probably an early age from your parents, religious figure, government official, the media, or peers that killing is bad. It is then possible to link other words to (Killing) so that your brain automatically associates the word with (Bad). Thus we can do:

(Murder)-->(Killing)-->(Bad)
(Murder)-->(Bad)

That is all well and good, but you can also associate certain words to killing to make the word bad in your mind, even if it may not be bad.

(Self-Defense)-->(Killing)-->(Bad)
(Self-Defense)-->(Bad)

We all know what "Bad" is, but now we will use the word "Crazy." We associate a lot of things instantly with crazy. The look of a guy on the side of the road with a sign that reads "The end is near!" It could be the sign that you associate with "Crazy" or it could be the way he dresses, or if his hair messy. We also know what killing is, to take someone's life. But what if we do not know what the middle word means, and we instantly associate it with "Crazy"?

(Conspiracy Theory)-->(Crazy)

Certain conspiracy theories can be used to initialize the connection to (Crazy):

(UFOs)-->(Conspiracy Theory)-->(Crazy)

It does not matter what the definition of "Conspiracy Theory" is, you have instantly associated "UFOs" with "Crazy." Just as we associated "Self-Defense" with "Bad" we can associate any number of things to "Conspiracy Theory" and thus "Crazy." First it is important to get a proper definition of "Conspiracy Theory" before your brain switches off the critical part.

Conspiracy Theory: Noun, A belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for an unexplained event.
Conspiracy comes from the word "Conspire" which simply means "to make secret plans jointly to commit and unlawful or harmful act."

If three guys get together and plan a burglary, they are conspirators, but you do not associate some burglars with "Crazy." Even if you have a theory that a string of burglaries are not random but carried out by only three guys, it still is not associated with "Crazy." But why?

You can not get to "Crazy" without going through "Conspiracy Theory" first. If the local news said "There is a conspiracy theory that three men are burglarizing our small town; citizens are being told to be watchful," would you suddenly get a weird feeling?

Now we can use this word association to make you believe that something is "Crazy" without letting you gather the facts, analyze them, and make an informed decision. A well known conspiracy theory is that the Vietnam War was started by a false flag event. A simple definition of "False Flag" is when someone attacks himself then blames another person for the act. It originated on ships that would fly another country's flag, attack their country's ship, so that their country would think an enemy country did it. A hypothetical example would be if a British galleon flew a French flag, then attacked a British frigate. The frigate would think that the French have attacked their ship, and as an act of war, would then attack the country of France.

A real example of this happened in the Gulf of Tonkin where American ships claimed that Vietnamese ships attacked our own. As this would be an act of war, it gave us reason to begin the official Vietnam War that killed thousands upon thousands of our own people, plus over a million Vietnamese. So if I said "Vietnam was a conspiracy to start a war," you would associate as:

(Vietnam War)-->(Conspiracy Theory)-->(Crazy)
(Vietnam War)-->(Crazy)

It was admitted by the government that the Gulf of Tonkin incident actually was true. We really did claim the Vietnamese attacked us, and we actually started the entire war based on this lie, this false-flag attack. Even though the truth is out, as long as someone says "The conspiracy of the Gulf of Tonkin incident," your brain will associate it with "Crazy" and you will be unwilling to listen to the fact that the government admits it to be true.

Not only can you associated words, but ideas can be associated with words. An idea or act that is good can be associated with a word to make you think something.

1. (Question the government)
2. (Hold the government accountable)
3. (Make the government prove their claims)

These can all be associated with "Conspiracy Theory."

(1,2,3)-->(Conspiracy Theory)-->(Crazy)

Even if someone does not say "the government did this," but simply "this does not make sense, please explain and give proof," they are thought as conspiracy theorists, and thus "Crazy."

For anyone who has had education, specifically college education that focuses on the ability to write a research paper, you would think would agree with the above idea "please explain and give proof." We are taught that if we make a claim, we have to back it up with proof, or a source. Furthermore, it must be a credible source. Most of the time, we cannot simply go off of what Wikipedia says, but have to find articles that are peer reviewed (this means that people within their field looked the paper over and concluded with what the author claimed). So it can be surprising when a group of people, namely college students, when told something by the media take it as fact without analyzing any of the information given to them. If any questions come up to what the media or government has said because there are inconsistencies, the media says "these conspiracy theories," and you refuse to consider the inconsistencies because it is all "Crazy."

So by the logic that "Question authority" can mean "Conspiracy Theory" which means "Crazy," would mean that Galileo was a conspiracy theorist and crazy. The "official story" is that Earth was the center of the universe. Using the scientific method, Galileo concluded that Earth revolved around the sun. He questioned authority, and he did his own research to back his claim that Earth was not the center of the universe. People probably thought he was crazy at the time, but now the reverse is true: if someone said Earth was the center of the universe, you would think them crazy.

This association of words can be used to make a word or phrase seem crazy by associating connotations to the word without looking at the actual definition. For this example we will use "Mind Control." When you think of "Mind Control," images of science fiction come to mind, like the X-men, or B movies back in the day. Even the thought of mysticism or hypnotism can be associated with what you view as "Mind Control."

Simply put, "Mind Control" is the act of coercing someone to do something they would normally not do. This can be achieved by a number of means which includes, but not limited to, brainwashing, conditioning, or drugs like LSD. Earlier I mentioned the Pavlovian Effect. The bell is not food, and the dog is not thinking of eating the bell that makes him salivate. The dog has been condition to associate the sound of the bell ringing to know that he will soon get food. In effect, it is using mind control on the dog to achieve a response just by ringing a bell.

Most of the time, people do not know they are being conditioned. Many cults use brainwashing and conditioning to make them do things. Without outside influence, you can teach a child that marrying your father is okay, and it is normal to be a baby factory for the community. You can also make one individual be a messiah figure in the community. This is all mind control. So if a child in a cult is told repeatedly and often that their leader is the Messiah, it can be seen as conditioning and brainwashing, but anything we are told in the "real world" is not brainwashing or conditioning.

From an early age, we are conditioned and in certain cases, brainwashed to believe something even if it is not true. We are told to look both ways before crossing the road, and eventually, it is instinct for us to do so. This is a good form of conditioning because it is safe to watch for cars before crossing a road. The more you do your own research into history, the people that run the world, and where their money comes from, you will begin to see all of the conditioning you receive, notably from the media.

The media operates in sound bites, or single phrases that convey a broader point or idea, whether that idea is true or not. After Nixon and Watergate, the media began attaching the suffix -gate onto everything. This was used  a lot in the 1990s with the Clinton administration, perhaps because he was involved with so many scandals. There was Lewinski-gate, and even a few -gates associated with Hilary Clinton during her time being a lawyer. Most recently, we have witnessed Climate-gate that happened when hackers released personal e-mails of the small group of people who lied about the data pertaining to whether the Earth was getting warmer. In reality, the Earth was cooling when the media (citing these scientists) told the public that the Earth was warming at an incredibly rate, attributing this to man producing green-house gases (like CO2, the gas we expel when we breathe, and the gas that plants need to live). They even explained in the emails how to precisely change the code within the computer models so that it would produce the desired effect of making real data look like the Earth was warming even though it was cooling.

The point about this is that -gate is now associated with corruption or scandal usually with government officials, agencies, or organizations. Corruption and scandal within government is a serious problem, but the media attaches -gate to it all and you may not care about it. Why would you suddenly not care about Climate-gate even though it means that scientists are lying, and policies proposed by Al Gore would allow companies he owns to profit off the very policies he proposes, while hurting our own wallets? Mainly because of Monica Lewinski. Even though perjury is a serious crime (you cannot simply lie in a court of law that would lead to an innocent person being convicted of a crime), the fiasco involved with Ms. Lewinski is then associated with the suffix -gate. You are then conditioned to see any scandal or corruption using -gate to be associated with the fiasco of Lewinski (e.g. "why are we going after a man about his sex life?")

More recently, a new suffix is being used to make the public associate people who question the government. Like I said before, "Questioning the government" is already associated with "Conspiracy Theory" and thus "Crazy." So attaching -ers to something leads you along the association of words and ideas to the belief that "these people are crazy" without looking at the questions or proof they have that say otherwise. Truthers are those who question the official story given by the government because they never explained why a steel structure not hit by a plane collapsed in its own footprint at free-fall speeds (World Trade Center 7). Birthers question the origin of Barack Obama asking whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya, whether him changing his citizenship to Indonesia and changing his name to Barry Satoro without proof that he changed it back to Barack Obama disqualifies him by law and Constitutional law from being president of the United States. (For the record, the long-form birth certificate provided has been analyzed by numerous Photoshop experts finding blatant problems with the form namely different fonts used on the same line, and there being multiple layers in the image, besides the fact that there is still the fact that he changed he renounced his US citizenship by changing to Indonesia).

Most recently, anyone who brings up the many questions of whether Osama Bin Laden was actually killed are being called Deathers. Much like how the authorities changed their story numerous times about how the Underwear Bomber got onto the plane until they finally admitted that an unnamed state department official guided him past security without a passport and onto the plane, they have changed their story about the supposed death of Osama.They first said that he was firing a gun, and they shot him dead. Then they said he was using his wife as a human shield and they killed him. Now they are saying that he was taken somewhere and shot in the head. It was known back in the 1990s that Osama had kidney failure and Marfan Syndrome (the same as Abraham Lincoln, common among tall people). Medical experts have said that a man who had 3-5 years to live could not be alive 15 years later to be killed in 2011. Top White House officials came out years ago admitting that Osama was dead, the CIA had the body and had frozen it so that when it was needed to keep a president in office when reelection came up, they would claim they had killed him.

But because Deathers is used, people will be less likely to look at these facts, form their own conclusions, and simply ask "please explain, and show proof."