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Old March 10th, 2014 #1
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Ideas that spread and grow like a Virus Win

“What is the most contagious parasite?” asks Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Mr. Cobb in the early moments of Inception.

“An idea.” From the tiniest seed, it spreads like a virus, he explains. This is what makes it vulnerable to manipulation and theft.



The most dangerous viruses "The Ideas"

"An idea is like a virus, is resistant and highly contagious. The smallest idea can grow, it can define you or destroy you ...."

An idea can change the world and rewrite the rules.

What is the most resistant parasites? "An idea. A single idea of the human mind can build cities. An idea can change the world and rewrite the rules. So I have to steal it. "

The virus

Ideas are the most dangerous virus that exists. Once an idea has been internalized and absorbed, it takes over your mind.

Transform your own reality and how you perceive the world. The ideas have killed more people than any drug or disease.

Columbus's idea that the earth was round changed the world, taking his way to millions of people, Europeans and Indians, because of war and disease that led to the New World.

The infection

Once an idea has caught on in a person it can be transmitted to others. In politics that is based on the idea that a politician can get a better world. A speech is a proper place to spread those ideas (often called propaganda). Ideas are born but, when transmitted and become strong enough, you can not kill them.

"What is the most resistant parasites? A bacteria? A virus? Any intestinal worm? No. An idea. Resistant and highly contagious. Once an idea gains strength in the brain, it is almost impossible to eradicate. One idea that is totally, totally understood, remains. "

Disease

Terrorism part of an idea, the idea that a person can get what they want through violence. The end justifies the means. The universe is divided into two: one that helps your friend, the rest are enemies. It is not a new idea, but the simplest idea is the most likely to get into your head.

We are told to remember the ideas, not men, because a man can end. Can stop, can kill, can be forgotten, but 400 years later, the ideas can still continue to change the world.

"I have seen with my own eyes the power of ideas. I've seen people kill them and die defending them ... "

http://davidhuerta.typepad.com/blog/...the-ideas.html


Dangerous memes

Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes — concepts that are literally alive.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett...mes/transcript




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Old March 10th, 2014 #2
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Hundreds Arrested for Spreading ‘Rumors’ on China's Ideological Battlefield

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Chinese President Xi Jinping wants ideological control to be the Chinese Communist Party's number one priority in the months ahead. At an August 19 meeting of Party propaganda chiefs, who are responsible for monitoring major online and offline media outlets, Xi ordered the CCP propaganda machine to build “a strong Internet army” to “seize the ground of new media”.

“The most impressive [point] is that Xi said the Communist Party should be combative, instead of being passive, and it should wage a war to win over public opinion,” said a media expert speaking to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on the condition of anonymity.

Under this initiative, government censors will focus on eliminating online “rumors”. This may signal a new, even tougher era for Internet users in China, where any piece of information that does not come from official government channels can be considered a rumor.

And the crackdown is already well underway. Chinese activist Wen Yunchao has documented over than 42 round-ups of netizens since August 20. Within two weeks of the announcement, over 450 netizens had been arrested and put under administrative detention. Several face charges of provoking disturbances, blackmail, and fabricating facts.

Those arrested are not just traditional political dissidents — they range from online opinion leaders to independent online business owners. We highlight a few emblematic cases below.
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The Century of the Self

This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly.

His influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive. The documentary describes the impact of Freud's theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this during the last 100 years for their engineering of consent. Among the main characters are Freud himself and his nephew Edward Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in advertising. He is often seen as the father of the public relations industry.

Freud's daughter Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychology, is mentioned in the second part, as well as Wilhelm Reich, one of the main opponents of Freud's theories. Along these general themes, The Century of the Self asks deeper questions about the roots and methods of modern consumerism, representative democracy and its implications. It also questions the modern way we see ourselves, the attitude to fashion and superficiality.

Happiness Machines. Part one documents the story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays who invented Public Relations in the 1920s, being the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses.



The Engineering of Consent. Part two explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses. Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying premise that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational desires.



There is a Policeman Inside All of Our Heads, He Must Be Destroyed. In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas, which lead to the creation of a new political movement that sought to create new people, free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people's minds by business and politics.



Eight People Sipping Wine In Kettering.
This episode explains how politicians turned to the same techniques used by business in order to read and manipulate the inner desires of the masses. Both New Labor with Tony Blair and the Democrats led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group which had been invented by psychoanalysts in order to regain power.

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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
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In this visualization, we see the tipping point where minority opinion (shown in red) quickly becomes majority opinion.

Over time, the minority opinion grows. Once the minority opinion reached 10 percent of the population, the network quickly changes as the minority opinion takes over the original majority opinion (shown in green).

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.

“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

As an example, the ongoing events in Tunisia and Egypt appear to exhibit a similar process, according to Szymanski. “In those countries, dictators who were in power for decades were suddenly overthrown in just a few weeks.”
Image credit: SCNARC/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- See more at: http://news.rpi.edu/luwakkey/2902#sthash.bSYLT8DN.dpuf


How the brain creates the 'buzz' that helps ideas spread

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How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?

UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first time the brain regions associated with the successful spread of ideas, often called "buzz."

The research has a broad range of implications, the study authors say, and could lead to more effective public health campaigns, more persuasive advertisements and better ways for teachers to communicate with students.

"Our study suggests that people are regularly attuned to how the things they're seeing will be useful and interesting, not just to themselves but to other people," said the study's senior author, Matthew Lieberman, a UCLA professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and author of the forthcoming book "Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect." "We always seem to be on the lookout for who else will find this helpful, amusing or interesting, and our brain data are showing evidence of that. At the first encounter with information, people are already using the brain network involved in thinking about how this can be interesting to other people. We're wired to want to share information with other people. I think that is a profound statement about the social nature of our minds."
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla...zz-247204.aspx


Harvard Professor Finds That Innovative Ideas Spread Like The Flu; Here's How To Catch Them

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Network science reveals just how innovation--much like the dreaded flu bug sweeping the nation--is contagious. Here's where you need to position yourself to catch one (and maybe avoid the other).

You can hear it in the way we speak: Songs are infectious, trends are contagious, videos go viral. We use disease to describe data. Information acts like illness. As it turns out, so does innovation.

While Google helps us understand the way the flu moves and a Facebook app can ferret out who might make you sick, what's missing from the sniffly conversation is that disease and ideas both travel along social networks--the real-life kind. In other words, there's a reason that the only thing that swept through your office faster than that stomach bug was the gossip about who gave it to who.

"We live our lives in networks, and these networks have a particular kind of a structure."

Enter network science, an emergent discipline drawing from sociology, medicine, and statistics. Harvard Medical School professor Nicholas Christakis is one of the most prominent figures in the young field--he's made foundational investigations into how products, sneezes, and behaviors are spread by networked contagion.

"Things don't just diffuse in human populations at random. They actually diffuse through networks," Christakis says, noting that we live our lives in networks--the same as hunter-gatherers. Today our networks are the web of relations you have between friends, coworkers, siblings, and relatives. Where you are in that web lends special properties.

The key is exposure. The more central you are to a network, the more connections you have to others, the more you are exposed to whatever's going around the network--whether it's Carly Rae Jepsen or H1N1. So if you want to hear the next great pop song, find out about the next great innovation, or catch the next great flu--the center is the spot for you. As Christakis notes, the people with the densest, most central connection form a "sensor group," a kind of canary in the mineshaft for what's going to be cool next--or give you a cold.

"Individuals located centrally within a network will be at both an increased risk for the acquisition of a pathogen," Christakis says tells Fast Company, "and an increased risk for the acquisition of novel information."

Of course, being aware of ideas doesn't necessarily mean anything--it's what you do with it. "While your exposure to new ideas or to new information is an attribute of where you are in the network, your tendency to adopt a new thing is an attribute of you," Christakis says. "It's a similar case with germs: being at the center increases your risk of exposure, but whether or not you get infected depends on the resilience of your immune system."
http://www.fastcompany.com/3004829/h...how-catch-them
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Old March 10th, 2014 #4
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In the oxford dictionary inception is defined as the beginning of something, such as an undertaking; an initiation. Others define inception as a date on which something was introduced or started. Basically an inception is a start of something from its origin. How can inception be related to the human beings, and how can it be related to their thoughts and ideas. Inception is an idea implanted in someone’s head that can probably change his perception towards something and thus their lives.

Inception is so strong and it spreads like a virus, but yet it starts with a small and simple idea. Inception is simply your subconscious and how it reacts or believes certain things. Inception can come from a song or a word or even a movie or a book that will change the way we see things subconsciously without us knowing we are affected. The article will be divided into two parts, first is how can people possible create inception the second we will discuss how media can change lives, and implant ideas in people subconscious, does media know its doing this, is it agenda setting do they mean to implant inception?

Let me introduce something I would like to call the inceptive method which is the science of planting images and ideas into a subject's brain. The inceptive method consists of three parts, “The inceptor”, “The Inception” and “The Inceptee” Those three parts go through a channel that is called a subliminal channel.



The inceptor or the initiator is the one that embed the idea; the inception is the process of embedding the idea, while the Inceptee is the receiver of the idea. The subliminal channel is the subconscious mind, which subconsciously process the idea that eventually becomes its reality.

Inception is so deep, u have to get deep into someone subconscious and plant the simplest idea, the key hear is to choose a scenario that suits the Inceptee and relate to their experience and manipulate their realities. Its not easy to plant ideas cause the subconscious mind will subconsciously activate its defense mechanism and fight the inceptor and that is how we protect our minds. At a point of your life u are somehow trained to protect your self from invaders whether physically, or mentally. Inception is like invasions of the mind, thus we protect our mind by referring to past experience and knowledge about a certain topic.

If your thoughts are stable enough you won't be scared of being incepted but you will never know that you are, u just know that u are subconsciously facing a different experience that that was not installed in your mind, thus it doesn’t exist in your frame of reference. Inception plants a simple idea, yet you help the inceptor of knowing what simple idea will affect you, than you become possessed by that idea, thinking about absolutely nothing but the idea you helped embedding in your mind.

How can one person create inception? Close your eyes and imagine with me your darkest place, a place you fear the most, a place you feel unsafe in. Open your eyes now, probably no one saw this dark place but you, but are you sure of that? What if someone was in your head? What if someone was standing by you when you were closing your eyes, and monitored your frightened facial expressions? If you closed your eyes and imagined the whole experience and the idea of someone watching you crossed your mind, than my friend you have been invaded. This is a simple idea of inception, inception is much deeper than that, if I would create an inception in your head, I have to go deep into your fears and inner thoughts and study them very well so I can know what will affect you.

Let’s search together for someone in our lives that we blindly trust and that is a credible source of information to us, yet he is so close to our mind and heart. Will you believe anything that person tells you? The answer varies, it depends on the depth of your subconscious mind and the way you see things. Your subconscious mind might believe the idea he was talking about, but you will need your consciousness for inception to generate. How is that possible? Inception is created when the idea is implanted in your subconscious mind, that when you wake up it becomes your reality, your consciousness to live with this reality and to act upon it.

In the movie Inception the idea is incepted in a dream, which is the subconscious mind, therefore when you wake up you will think but nothing but the idea incepted. Can this be inverted? Well sometimes thinking too much of something make u dream of it and then the process happens starting from your real life ending in your dreams, to some people dream is reality. Meaning that they think too much of something, maybe something they fear, but they wont act upon it or believe it, but dreaming it makes it real for them. The dreams sometimes make the idea realistic for the people. For example you were thinking about death, probably due to something you heard or saw, you keep thinking of that idea so deeply, accordingly you start dreaming of death. Now death is your reality you’re possessed by the idea of dying, that every time you cross the streets you feel that your life will end. The question is where did the idea of death come from? Did it come from a person you talked to, a close person that passed away or maybe a movie, or even a book? That is where the next idea takes place, inception in media!

Media inception is so typical and it possibly happen everyday even every second, but how and who is responsible for that inception. During my studies in media I was introduced to a term which is subliminal messages. Subliminal messages are hidden messages inserted in the media that are not supposed to be seen. Subliminal messaging therefore refers to the act of sending messages directly to the subconscious mind. Taking a deeper look, subliminal messages is implemented in the media by the media or the government to deliver a certain message or even sell a certain product to the subconscious mind of their audience. Therefore the audience is subliminally brainwashed. That is exactly what happens in inception; and idea takes place, it has to refer to the Inceptee (audience in the media scenario), using a subliminal channel (TV, Book, Song, Advertising), and voila you have been incepted without your knowledge!

The question is does the government or the media know that they are actually using the Inceptive method, well sadly they do. How will they control people without following the inceptive method, how will they shape society, demolish identities and destruct cultures? This is their only way to do so, and sadly people are victims of this manipulative process. Let me introduce another theory which is the Agenda setting theory. The agenda-setting theory is the theory that the mass-news media have a large influence on audiences by their choice of what stories to consider newsworthy and how much prominence and space to give them. As mentioned you have a big hand in causing inception by giving your inceptors clues to your personality and thoughts, by deciding what and what not to do. It’s the same in media, according to the agenda setting theory. You let the media tell you what to watch; you set your agenda respectively. Yet you still don’t know you are being possessed and sometimes owned.

Concluding, inception doesn’t have to be evil, the idea itself might be something for the good of the society, or even for your own good. You just have to be careful of who knows the keys to your personality and mind, and why and how will they use them.
http://nhesham.blogspot.com/2010/11/inception.html


Selfish Memes

http://www.digitaltonto.com/2012/selfish-memes/


A Bloggers Guide To Changing The World One Idea At A Time

- See more at: http://www.aboundlessworld.com/blogg....izH1rTj6.dpuf



How to Spread Your Ideas

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Blogs are about ideas, and the best blogs are have ideas that are worth repeating and spreading.

That’s how they do so well — the power of their ideas attracts people to them, and the ideas spread widely, attracting even more readers.

Sure, it’s nice when a blog is beautifully written, exciting, controversial … but without powerful ideas, a blog is empty, and will only go so far.

So how do you create ideas that are powerful enough to be spread on their own? How does this idea get spread out? Some ideas:

1. Be an observer.
Observe life, trends, the secrets behind events and successful people. Try to figure out the “why” not just the “what”.

2. Find the game changers.
What ideas can you think of that will change the world, or at least a part of it? Think of some of the major ideas that have changed the world: from Darwin’s evolution to Marx’s communism to Gandhi’s non-violence to Jesus’ message of love (to name but a few big examples). You don’t need to think that big, of course, but the key is to think of something that will change the world in some small way — even if it’s just the world around you, that you operate in.

3. Be bold. Wishy washy doesn’t cut it in the world of ideas. The best ideas are ones that are stated positively and strongly. They tend to resonate well. However …

4. Be open to change.
Ideas are meant to be tested and explored, and if they work, they will go on to be adopted more widely. If they fail, you have to drop them or you’ll cause harm by trying to stick with an idea that is wrong. So test out every idea, and if it works, show proof.

5. Be short. People like a quick read. Don’t go on forever. Small messages are also easier to pass on.

6. Hit it from other angles. State the idea in small doses, hitting it from different angles, adding to the idea in short bursts.

7. Be exciting. Your idea can be important but kinda boring. If people get excited about something, they’ll pass it on, and soon your idea spreads like wildfire.

8. Make it easy for others to spread your idea.
You want other people to share your idea. So encourage them to spread it via their blog, email, or social media. Put it in a format that’s easy to share. Make it something that will help their readers or friends.

9. Be in more than one place. An idea doesn’t necessarily spread by itself, if you don’t already have a huge name. If you’re President Obama, you can just say a few words and they’ll spread instantly … but if you’re not a recognized name, you may have to do a little more work. Repeat your ideas on different blogs so that others can have a chance to get excited by the ideas and spread them themselves.
http://writetodone.com/how-to-spread-your-ideas/
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Remember when the Romans dominated Palestine and destroyed Jerusalem but afterwards got spiritually conquered and adopted a semitic religion?

History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Roman_Empire History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Roman_Empire


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient...ticle_01.shtml


Remember when the French lost the war but spread revolutionary principles all over Europe during the Napoleonic Wars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...ng-term_impact

Influence_of_the_French_Revolution Influence_of_the_French_Revolution



You don't need to win the war to win the battle.

This is the power of the "Idea" concept.
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