Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters link it to argue that cultural subversion and normalization are playing out today, though mostly as a reference in unrelated threads.
What it is
A 1983 Los Angeles lecture by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov on how the Soviets carried out ideological subversion of target societies through propaganda. He walks through demoralization and normalization stages.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec MikeAshley178 · 2022-07 · on “West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres”
Shaving a few minutes off your shower, walking to the shop instead of driving, turning your thermostat down by a few degrees will make no f@@kin difference what so ever to the horror that is coming. The whole point of these exercises is not to save energy but to engage the population to believe that they are part of the problem and therefore part of the solution. They are not. One of the most important videos on the entire Internet, if you cannot understand why then you are probably already lost. [this video]
Recommends returnbuyer · 2017-02 · on “Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?”
They're not weakening twitter by weakening western society. If anything, weakening the society with divisive gender war and identify politics empowers twitter. The western economy suffers and more people become reclusive and stay inside all day on the internet. It's basic culture warfare and it's been happening for decades. Listen to some Yuri Besmenov [1] if you don't know what I'm talking about. Basically my point is they don't care, because any division in their enemies is a good thing for them. While they retain immense strength and nationalism. I'll give you an example of poisoning the well. So many dual-citizen self admitted Zionists in America and Europe are pro-refugee. They adamantl
Recommends coretx · 2024-05 · on “Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]”
The following ancient cold war era video will probably make you understand what i mean and more: [this video] History is repeating itself.
Cites ideamonk · 2017-02 · on “HyperNormalisation (2016) [video]”
From history - KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov talks about normalisation in context of subversion - [this video] (1983, LA)
Cites moneytide1 · 2022-08 · on “To Become Wise, Do Less”
> What could be more "leisurely" than religion, that which is, after all, concerned with the ultimate end and the highest good? "... blindly raging industriousness brings riches and honour but at the same time deprives the organs of refinement that make it possible to enjoy the riches and honour; also, that this chief antidote to boredom and to the passions at the same time dulls the senses [0] and makes the spirit resistant to new attractions. (The most industrious age - our own - doesn't know how to make anything of all its industriousness and money except still more money and still more industriousness, for more genius is required to spend than to acquire! Well, we'll still have our 'gran
Cites moneytide1 · 2022-08 · on “To Become Wise, Do Less”
We can assume that as the dust settles in the 2090s, when the self-sterilized crusaders die off without surviving children, we can write it off as the necessary loss of the gullible feeble minds that the state failed to educate. To mitigate this loss means keeping them in a productive career but nothing politically influential if we are to contain the spread. Keep a watchful eye out for the "Chuck&Larry" tax dollar distribution fraud which was intended to reward the child-rearing capacity of the newly minted loyal family. "... Normalization. At that stage, the self-appointed rulers of the society don't need revolution anymore... Stabilizing the country by force. So all the sleepers, activist