Planetary Cybernetics 101 pt.3: Schemers' Fractal

You may need to read Esotericism 101, Planetary Chronicles, Planetary Cybernetics 101 Pt.1, and Cybernetics 101 Pt.2 from Main Menu to understand some concepts/terms in here.

This is a guide for surface/LW to understand the concrete mechanisms of active/passive formation of trauma.

Agent Garbo

“All warfare is based on deception.”

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Introduction

My personal thought about the The Art of War?

They made a terrible decision in the use of the word in the title.

In war there exists no beauty; it brims with suffering and sorrow. Nor is the contest of wits any form of art, for contemplation in its wake is never without weariness.

Sun Tzu did give us a lot of insight into how to strategically execute and handle competition in reality, but this is not the purpose of this article. The main goal is to illustrate how cabals manipulate mind collectives from the surface in both macro perspective and concrete examples.

As you read this blog, please consider that there are no intrinsic contradictions in the ideological or religious conflicts. All historical grievances can be resolved quickly and peacefully. So the question arises: who does not wish for peace to come? And what tricks have they been using all along?


The first answer, obviously, is the cabals and their schemers.

The second answer will be the topic of this blog.

Meaning of SunTzu's work

There are 13 chapters total in the SunTzu's The Art of War. 

I. 始计第一 Laying Plans

II. 作战第二 Waging War

III. 谋攻第三 Attack by Stratagem

IV. 军形第四 Tactical Dispositions

V. 兵势第五 Energy

VI. 虚实第六 Weak Points and Strong

VII. 军争第七 Manœuvring

VIII. 九变第八 Variation of Tactics

IX. 行军第九 The Army on the March

X. 地形第十 Terrain

XI. 九地第十一 The Nine Situations

XII. 火攻第十二 The Attack by Fire

XIII. 用间第十三 The Use of Spies

I'm not gonna deep into every chapter in here, but I do want to share an interesting point of view from Nan Huai-Chin (a Chinese hermit).

He relates the Art of War to the earliest esotericism symbol, Hetu.

Hetu

In Chinese esotericism, there are 5 elements which come through the generation. The first is water, the second element is fire, the third element is wood, the fourth element is metal, and the fifth one is earth. 

In here (Hetu), the water represents the number 1, fire represents 2, wood represents 3, metal represents 4, and earth represents 5. There will be another round of the numbers, which is the "mature" form of these elements.

In elements' mature form, water is 6, fire is 7, wood is 8, metal is 9, and earth is 10.

Nan Huai-Chin thinks the first 6 chapters are more for the intangible part of the strategies, and the next 6 chapters are more for the tangible part.

He thinks the intangible part is the source of the tangible, just like Hetu's pattern, transforming from the initial form into the mature (concrete/tangible) form.

So I. 始计第一 Laying Plans (intangible)  and VII. 军争第七 Manœuvring (tangible)

II. 作战第二 Waging War      VIII. 九变第八 Variation of Tactics

III. 谋攻第三 Attack by Stratagem      VIII. 九变第八 Variation of Tactics

IV. 军形第四 Tactical Dispositions      X. 地形第十 Terrain

V. 兵势第五 Energy      XI. 九地第十一 The Nine Situations

VI. 虚实第六 Weak Points and Strong      XII. 火攻第十二 The Attack by Fire

These chapter compare to each other, as for the last chapter (The use of Spies)?  It is essential for every part of the chapter or practical action in reality.

From Sun Tzu's work, before being offensive, you need to be defensive. So what is the reason for being defensive? A small number of the armed provocateurs are under your command, carrying out espionage missions for you.

The ideologies understood by people and the two contextual entities in conflict usually held by the same interest group.

Irrational, Divide and Rule

The Inquisition trials in the early Middle Ages and throughout the entire period are one of the darkest chapters in history. The direct and indirect consequences of this series of actions led to the collapse of the energy grid across the European continent and a slower evolution of spiritual development on the surface.

民不畏死，奈何以死惧之。 

When the people do not fear death, how can they be intimidated by the threat of death?

Lao Zi 

This quote is from Laozi's Tao Te Ching (Dàodéjīng), Chapter 74. Laozi opposed ruling a nation solely through oppressive measures. He argued that governance must align with the people's needs—rulers should not rely on punishment and fear, but instead cultivate true public reverence through just and benevolent leadership.

In order to make people experience something even more terrifying than death, the cabals employ a combination of defamation and broadly defined criminal charges ("Catch-All Offense")—a loathsome mechanism (Inqusition) that has executed thousands of innocents.

At the same time, it has successfully turned people against one another, breeding mutual distrust.

Stubbornness, Collective Submissive

History teaches us that revolutions in knowledge require time to gain broader societal acceptance. During this interim period, securing a fair hearing for such ideas remains an arduous task.


For instance, when Guglielmo Marconi first introduced his "wireless telegraph" to the Italian government, the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs dismissed him as a madman.


Similarly, Galileo found himself condemned by the Inquisition for his "absurd" proposition that the Earth revolved around the Sun. At the time, most educated individuals firmly believed Earth stood at the universe's center. The conventional geocentric model was, after all, "biblically" sanctioned and ostensibly self-evident—one needed only observe the horizon to witness the Sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Common sense thus reinforced the theory of a Sun orbiting Earth. Ultimately, science vindicated Galileo, exposing a certain folly in the established order—though not before he spent his remaining years under house arrest.


Why does this occur? Why do people so readily reject novel ideas, even when they offer invaluable paths forward?


Fortunately, modern neuroscience now provides clarity. The answer to this enduring puzzle lies in emerging insights into how the human brain processes beliefs and assimilates new information. Neuroscience reveals why preexisting convictions pose formidable barriers to adopting radical or counterintuitive concepts. Indeed, this new understanding elucidates how entrenched beliefs obstruct the acquisition of substantive knowledge, impede effective problem-solving, and undermine sound planning and decision-making.

Premature Cognitive Commitment as an Impediment to Learning

When our senses encounter new evidence conflicting with preexisting beliefs, barriers to genuinely novel ideas emerge because a specific brain region filters out such evidence before it reaches conscious awareness. In this sense, the brain's architecture renders us functionally incapable of perceiving what we do not already believe. When this deception occurs, we exhibit what psychologists term "premature cognitive commitment." Stated differently, our conclusions derive not from newly available evidence, but from entrenched beliefs about the situation.

Here, "belief" denotes not religious conviction, but encompasses any preexisting:

• Assumptions

• Presuppositions

• Preconceptions

• Self-convictions

• Ideologies

• Hypotheses

• Theories

• Premises

• Emotionally charged memories of past events or circumstances

All these subcategories of belief possess the capacity to obstruct our perception of reality.

Cognitive Dissonance and Confirmation Bias

As demonstrated, when premature cognitive commitment occurs, our beliefs become profoundly self-limiting. The brain appears programmed to leverage beliefs for rapid interpretation of routine situations. Yet this rough-and-ready cognitive approach often comes at the expense of authentic learning—particularly when observed environments undergo change.

Learning barriers arise because humans are inherently habit-driven organisms. We find comfort in established beliefs, while altering them or confronting their inadequacy generates significant discomfort. Crucially, our beliefs frequently become integral to our identity. Consequently, new information contradicting existing beliefs inherently threatens:

• Our sense of meaning

• Our psychological security

• Our self-conception (more precisely: our beliefs about who we are)

The pivotal factor is this: Like other threats to emotional needs, such intimate threats to meaning and identity trigger potent stress responses.

In other words, at the point of conflict between our preexisting beliefs and contradictory facts, we become emotionally agitated. Our higher-order rational capacities become hijacked, rapidly triggering primitive fight-or-flight responses. This psychological stress reaction is termed "cognitive dissonance."


The correlation between cognitive dissonance and new information assimilation is critical. When apparent facts or evidence contradict deeply held beliefs, cognitive dissonance forces us to eliminate the threat and reduce dissonance-induced distress. To achieve this immediate goal, we adopt one of two courses:

1. Modify beliefs to align with revealed facts, or
   
   
2. Defend existing beliefs through "confirmation bias" (sometimes called "myside bias").

The latter approach typically prevails under three conditions:

• When encountering unexpected challenges

• When unaccustomed to having our worldview contested

• When emotionally entrenched in our convictions

As previously established, humans are fundamentally habit-driven organisms. Thus, in stress-activated moments, we instinctively take the path of least resistance through some form of confirmation bias.

Indeed, when faced with choosing between what's right and what's easy, we gravitate toward simplicity. For humans, "easy" manifests through a spectrum of counterproductive learning strategies, including:

• Stubborn resistance to change

• Willful misinterpretation of facts

• Dismissal of belief-contradicting evidence

• Demonization of opposing views

• Compulsive search for belief-confirming evidence (however tenuous)

• Blissful or ignorant denial of circumstances

• Hysterical opposition to alternative solutions

• Crusade-like campaigns to convert others

Persistent advocacy of obsolete/inappropriate solutions that perpetuate rather than alleviate problems

All serve to evade the discomfort of adapting to new ideas and evidence.

What vanishes in the heat of this affective response is our higher cognition's capacity for calm, dispassionate processing of novel concepts. As in any stress episode, the fight-or-flight reaction suppresses executive functions, thereby obstructing:

• Balanced evidence assessment

• Development of reasoned judgments

The Three Unwise Monkeys—Premature Cognitive Commitment, Cognitive Dissonance, and Confirmation Bias—inflict significant harm upon societies, particularly within organizational and political spheres.

In organizational environments, this neuroscientific understanding of the brain's filtering mechanisms explains:

1. Why negative information flows sluggishly through organizational hierarchies
   
   
2. Why senior management frequently distrusts adverse reports
   
   
3. Why executives often resist worldview-challenging feedback (particularly when it contradicts their operational paradigms)

Rather than leveraging new information for improvement, organizations tend to:

• Blame dissenters exposing uncomfortable truths

• Label truth-tellers as "whistleblowers" (implying disloyalty rather than integrity)

Most of us were raised with the deeply entrenched conviction that the universe constitutes a purely physical phenomenon. Despite challenges to this material conception by Albert Einstein and others nearly a century ago, the prevailing belief—reinforced daily by our collective sensory experience—remains that the universe exists within a linear temporal framework composed of massive material fragments separated by vast interstellar voids.


Fundamentally, this universal and habitual conviction asserts: "I am here, and everything else is out there." Our intellect, taking cues from common sensory perception, frames us as entities separate from the rest of existence.


Yet the reality is this: The universe is a self-interacting playground of energy and intelligence, of which each of us constitutes an inseparable component.


Regrettably, this phenomenon explains why scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders routinely disregard factual evidence contradicting their:

• Pre-existing convictions

• Ideological frameworks

• Theoretical constructs

• Established epistemic understandings

Propositions conflicting with entrenched worldviews pose a profound threat to people's sense of meaning.

Psychology recognizes "meaning" as a fundamental motivational need in humans. For those habituated to the concept of superradiance (how meditation works) or "conspiracies", we must acknowledge that the implications of these researches and the presences of the reality violate the core sense of meaning held by many—not least scientists, academics, journalists, policymakers, and senior officials.

Violations of emotional needs can rapidly trigger acute stress responses. In other words, the cognitive dissonance evoked when evidence directly conflicts with a subject's beliefs and meaning framework generates profound psychological discomfort.

Consider the experiencer's perspective: The evidence appears to undermine:

• The purpose of their work

• Their career trajectory

• Belief in their competence (sense of efficacy being an emotional need)

• Potentially, the foundational validity of their organization

Consequently, primordial survival mechanisms activate. It becomes easier, faster, and simpler to:

1. Dismiss the evidence
2. Proceed with business as usual
3. Persuade all stakeholders that "all is well"

This final observation constitutes an explanation—not an excuse—for such behavior.

From The Super Radiance Effect 
Jeremy Old

Insecurity, Paralysis of Mind

As referenced in my earlier text regarding triggered fight-or-flight responses—and as explored in Planetary Cybernetics Pt. 2—the interactive environments in which people operate are fundamentally designed to perpetuate trauma-derived access points. In essence, these constitute continuously engineered stimuli that induce states of extreme panic to evoke Pavlovian conditioning.


When individuals experience dysregulated distress, they instinctively seek external intervention, perceiving themselves as inadequate to resolve the crisis. At this point, the agenda of collective manipulation comes into play.

Under such extreme conditions, individuals exhibit heightened susceptibility to authority and collective influence.

The Milgram obedience experiments conducted in the 1960s provide definitive empirical validation: Subjects operating within a controlled laboratory environment experienced dual-source pressure—from the experimenter (authority figure) and the "learner" ("shock-receiving" victim). The agonized shrieks of the "learners" functionally paralyzed participants'

• Capacity for autonomous cognition

• Situational awareness

• Behavioral agency

Resulting in mechanical compliance with the experimenter's commands, despite evident moral conflict.

Building upon refined experimental ethics frameworks, a more definitive case study offers further critical insights.

In the psychological documentary The Push (2018), illusionist Derren Brown provides a disturbing demonstration. After screening participants through obedience tests, he selected the most compliant subject. Over precisely 72 minutes, this individual was exposed to systematically engineered pressure scenarios that induced progressive cognitive collapse.

 

The subject ultimately made the "unthinkable" decision—to administer a simulated lethal act against another person.



This implies that under "ideal" experimental conditions, societal moral boundaries can be systematically dismantled layer by layer. It further reveals that such engineered erosion constitutes the prototype for most historical atrocities:

1. Gradual Construction of Pathological Environments
Deliberate creation of layered external conditions that generate destabilizing preparatory states

2. Progressive Demoralization
Strategic induction of declining morale → escalating terror over sustained periods

3. Terminal Behavioral Extraction
Exploitation of compromised psychological states to elicit precisely targeted outcomes

What to do?

From macro to micro, collective to individual, these agendas appear omnipresent. Yet the premature cognitive commitment to a materialist worldview fundamentally explains why manipulation tactics targeting human cognition remain largely overlooked by international bodies like the United Nations and mainstream media. 

Individuals within these organizations become literally incapable of perceiving evidence before them. Consequently, these phenomena remain virtually unknown to the broader public.


Fortunately, alternative methods exist to deconstruct premature cognitive commitments to specific ideologies. The dual mechanisms of:

1.Sequential evidentiary exposure 

2.Gentle peer pressure

can enable most individuals to process belief-contradicting evidence rationally and maturely. When solicited for anonymous organizational feedback, employees typically unleash a deluge of data revealing systemic deficiencies.

The sheer volume of written evidence overwhelms management's:

• Complacent beliefs about operational efficacy

• Overconfidence in their governance capabilities

Within structured workshop settings, peer pressure prevents executives from dismissing evidence contradicting personal preconceptions. Crucially, knowing that peers recognize the irrefutable evidence chain makes denial psychologically untenable.

Humans are inherently collaborative problem-solving animals. We derive psychological security when collectively overcoming challenges. Group consensus regarding problems and solutions typically trumps individual anxieties about cherished beliefs being dismantled. In essence, collaborative information-sharing within groups overwhelms the defense mechanisms of participants' personal belief systems.

For example: Mass Meditation Field Research Essay Summaries can illustrate the concrete effects and potentials that mass meditation can bring.

This natural process of gently deconstructing premature cognitive commitments through group-sanctioned psychological safety highlights the critical importance of a

• Secure

• Non-judgmental

• Supportive environment.

Conversely, adversarial peer pressure often yields counterproductive rigidity among dissenting individuals.

All these processes just like what Derren Brown said at the end of his documentary.

"This experiment wasn't about who pushed it or who didn't. The point was it made participants act in ways that went against their decent morals, values, or personalities.

The point is: we're all profoundly susceptible to this kind of influence—whether driven by pairs of people or ideology. It's like we're handed someone else's script for how to live: to carry out their beliefs, achieve their ambitions. By understanding this, by understanding how we can be manipulated...

We can be stronger.
We can say NO.
We can PUSH BACK."