Yuri Bezmenov, a Soviet defector, talked about four stages of messing with people's beliefs. In a famous interview from the 1980s with G. Edward Griffin, he explained these stages that are still talked about today, especially among patriotic folks and even in Call of Duty ads.
So, here's the breakdown:
Demoralization: This is the starting point, where they try to mess with people's heads and make them lose faith in their own values.
Destabilization: Things start getting shaky. The goal here is to create confusion and weaken the existing systems.
Crisis: Now it's chaos. The aim is to make everything fall apart, creating a situation where people are desperate for a solution.
Normalization: This is the final stage. The troublemakers have infiltrated important parts of society, like the government. They're pushing their ideas openly or in secret. People start accepting the new way of thinking, and the old values are pushed aside. This whole process takes time, turning the "new" way into the everyday norm. Think of it as the "new normal."
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