Swamping, flooding, same thing
Whitney Webb's cohorts have written an informative article on Flooding The Zone. The article focuses on Edelman's PR firm, the chief architect of the technique.

Not really an epiphany. Sucker Filter was an epiphany. I had seen the results but was completely puzzled about the technique. In this case I've been discussing the technique for quite a while without knowing the proper name. I've been calling it Flat Assertion or Swamping.

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Our demon media and demon government are top-notch experts at swamping, or in perceptual terms, masking.

Instead of deleting Heresy X, they overload your senses with FIRM FLAT AUTHORITATIVE DECLARATIONS of not-X. Instead of directly killing an actual business or skill, they undercut the business or skill with unsustainable low-cost competitors, which then vanish after the target is killed. (eg Uber, Amazon, outsourcing, migrant invasions.)

These techniques were originally developed by Mafias, then refined in the political realm by Alinsky.

Now I'm focusing on the opposite technique. Might call it allergizing or sensitizing or deswamping.

First stage, basically complete now, was in the olfactory realm. Remove all interesting smells from the world so you're allergic to actual smells. This makes it possible to isolate non-cooperating entities and outlaw them. (eg "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity", EPA.)

Second stage, visual allergizing, is well underway in online activities, and spreading to offline styles and fashions. Remove all color and contrast. Three years ago most websites used color and form to guide your attention, as good industrial and graphic designers have always done. Now all websites are devoid of color and form, holding nothing but letters in slightly darker gray on a background of slightly lighter gray. Colors are gone, and even the normal contrast of black on white in print is gone.

Third stage, auditory deswamping, incipient and dubious. The "health attack" hate-hoax on our spies in Cuba seems to be a complementary process. Instead of silencing the world we're being conditioned to associate sounds with sickness. (The hate-hoax itself is clear, but I'm not sure it fits into this trend.)

Final destination is clear. A pure gray world with no sensory content or information, no movement, no change, no distinction between types or species or genders or individuals. All deltas, all patterns conveying information, all LIVING THINGS, are anathema. Ctrl-Z on Genesis.

Only death is legal.

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Deswamping was a dubious idea. It definitely happened in the olfactory area, but my observations in visual and auditory realms weren't heralding a trend. We're being swamped, not deswamped.

The auditory version of masking turned out to be a good metaphor. In running a perceptual test like an audiogram, the ears are filled with white noise or narrow-band noise to make perception of a specific tone or speech harder. Without the noise, the auditory system's feedback loops can focus on the desired signal instantly and sharply. You can't check the limits properly unless you cut out the automatic feedback. (And now we're back in Goodhart's Law....)

The cloth muzzle does the same thing on a larger scale, for an entirely different purpose. The muzzle maintains a steady white noise of internal and familiar microbes for MONTHS AT A TIME, damping down the immune system's ability to focus on an invading microbe. When the masking is removed, the feedback loop has FORGOTTEN how to respond properly.
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