Have you noticed that in some hot events, there are often some strange remarks, and then there will be a large group of people who follow the yin and yang weird rhythm.
If you just look at those words, sometimes it really makes people feel very desperate, as if the country is about to finish, the world economy is about to collapse, and ordinary people are like animals in captivity, no matter how hard they try, they can't escape the fate of being harvested.
And why are there so many negative energy remarks on the Internet? There is a fact that must be recognized, we are going through a fierce "cognitive war".
This is not alarmist, each of us, regardless of status, rich or poor, as long as we have access to the Internet, we will all be affected by this "war".
Reuters reported on the 14th of last month that former U.S. President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to launch a highly classified operation on Chinese social media to spread negative information about the Chinese government, with the aim of inciting Chinese public opinion against the government.
It's no secret that the United States used it against the Soviet Union in the 20th century, and Loch Johnson, a political scientist at the University of Georgia, said publicly: "During the Cold War, covert propaganda campaigns were common, when the CIA disseminated 80 to 90 articles a day about the Soviet Union." ”
In today's era, almost no one can escape the "information bombardment", regardless of men, women and children, as long as they pick up their mobile phones, they can receive massive amounts of information from all over the world.
Some foreign forces are very good at using false online identities to spread negative information about China in order to compete for the right to speak publicly.
When they comment on a news event in the mainland, they will constantly use sophistry to make you agree with his point of view, and use the cognitive bias of ordinary people about certain things to sell anxiety.
For example, on the issue of food safety, we have used the way of sounding the alarm bell to arouse the anxiety of the public, and once we agree with this anxiety deliberately created by external forces, then we will look at everything like a flood beast.
In addition, they are also pervasive in some regional incidents, often using the method of disrupting public opinion to undermine our internal unity, with the intention of creating regional antagonism, ethnic division, cultural division, and undermining our collective cohesion.
Last year, "Guizhou Village Super" was on fire, which was originally a pure and clean thing, the villagers used their spare time to organize football matches, and the prize was just a pig's leg, a fish, no capital operation, no commercialization, and was generally welcomed by the general public.
But this is also what the anti-China forces outside the country are most afraid of, and for this reason, they have invested a lot of resources in targeting the village super, spreading false information in an organized and planned way, biasing public perception, questioning the credibility of the government, and finally making us disgusted with the environment in which we live, and supporting Western society, which is what they want to see.
And the United States is familiar with this kind of thing.
According to statistics, over the past few decades, the CIA has overthrown or attempted to overthrow at least more than 50 legitimate governments of other countries, and their methods have invariably infiltrated the cultural field first, making the people suspicious of their own culture, reducing the credibility of the government, and provoking internal contradictions.
Therefore, they often say: "Your country is undemocratic and unfree", and even spend a lot of money to train a group of "agents" in other countries to export their values.
As a result, even if it is the "Guizhou Village Super" that everyone loves, we will see some "sewer remarks".
They are like flies, rotten eggs to bite, fresh meat to pounce on and bite twice, those "agents" they have cultivated will be yin and yang in the comment area all year round, deliberately spreading the voice of the dark side of society.
As we all know, the U.S. government has never hidden its ambition to use social media as a "new Cold War weapon."
In 2022, CNN reported that some people "related to the U.S. military" secretly operated fake accounts on social networks, using a number of fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram to carry out purposeful propaganda against people in other countries to "promote U.S. interests abroad."
It is also easy to understand that they are the "people with ulterior motives", deliberately distorting interpretations and rhythms, in order to compete for public recognition and provoke emotional confrontation, so that they can achieve ulterior secrets without much effort.
After all, some netizens are not vigilant enough and are easy to get emotional, not to mention that there are still many people who play the role of "I don't care how many bowls of noodles Liuzi ate, I just want to see Liuzi cut his stomach open".
And once the position of public opinion is lost, the "color revolution" will follow.
This was the case with the "Arab Spring" caused by the "Tunisian self-immolation" of that year.
After the people's perception was guided by European and American countries, it brought severe economic losses and social unrest to the Arab world, resulting in the death of more than 1 million people, nearly $1 trillion in damage to infrastructure, and more than 15 million people became refugees.
And Tunisia, the hardest hit by the Arab Spring, has seen its GDP stagnate since 2010.
In this case, the United States did not spend a single soldier, by constantly fanning the flames, intensifying the confrontation between the government and the people, and simply overthrowing the regimes of other countries by changing the mainstream values of the countries in which they live.
And those countries that are guided by "American values" will eventually be integrated into the global political, economic and security order dominated by the United States, and the government will be reduced to a puppet and its citizens will be reduced to leeks.
This is the destructive nature of "cognitive warfare", which is mainly aimed at disturbing the morale of other people's hearts, and although there is no blood, it is more difficult to guard against than real wars; in the era of the Internet with complicated information, there are many fragmented information, and many people cannot distinguish it, and in the information with "private goods", it is easy for people with ulterior motives to lead the rhythm astray.
Therefore, it is recommended that when you see a controversial event on the Internet, remember to "let the bullets fly for a while", patiently observe the details and follow-up, do not rush to express your opinions, and be sure to take a firm stand, enrich your own experience and basic knowledge, so as not to become someone else's bullet in the "cognitive war".