Definition of Agent Provocateur:

1 : a person who intentionally encourages people to do something illegal so that they can be caught.

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Allegory of the Cave, or Plato’s Cave:

1 : an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature". It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e).  

Summary of Allegory of the Cave:

-   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfRdl3GTw4

Definition of Black Swan Event:

1 : High-impact event that is difficult to predict under normal circumstances but that in retrospect appears to have been inevitable. A black swan event is unexpected and therefore difficult to prepare for but is often rationalized with the benefit of hindsight as having been unavoidable. 

2 : Black swan events impact people differently based on the extent of their access to relevant information about such events: the more the information, the less the impact. Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes a black swan event as having three attributes:

1. It is an outlier—i.e., it is so rare that even the possibility that it might occur is unknown.
2. It has an extreme impact when it occurs.
3. In spite of its outlier status, explanations are created for it after the fact, making it predictable in the future.

- Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/black-swan-event

Definition of Cognitive Bias: 

1 : the way a particular person understands events, facts, and other people, which is based on their own particular set of beliefs and experiences and may not be reasonable or accurate:

Social scientists are interested in how cognitive bias and stereotyping affects workplace discrimination.

The rationality of decisions is affected by the individual's cognitive biases.

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Cognitive Dissonance:

1 : a state in which there is a difference between your experiences or behavior and your beliefs about what is true. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Conditioning:

1 :  the process of training to become physically fit by a regimen of exercise, diet, and rest also : the resulting state of physical fitness. 

2 :  a simple form of learning involving the formation, strengthening, or weakening of an association between a stimulus and a response.

-  Merriam-Webster Dictionary

 - See also Social Conditioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning

Definition of Conspiracy:

1 : the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal.  

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Conspiracy Theory:

1 : a belief that an event or situation is the result of a secret plan made by powerful people. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Coup d’etat:

1 : the sudden defeat of a government through illegal force by a small group, often a military one. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Critical Thinking:

1 : the process of thinking carefully about a subject or idea, without allowing feelings or opinions to affect you. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Dialectical Method:

1 : is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned methods of argumentation. 

-   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic 

Definition of Discernment:

1 : the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure: skill in discerning.

2 : an act of perceiving or discerning something. 

-  Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Definition of Doublethink:

1 : a situation in which someone seems to believe two opposite things, or claims to believe something but does the opposite. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary 

Definition of Fallacy:

1 : a fallacy is reasoning that is logically incorrect, undermines the logical validity of an argument, or is recognized as unsound. All forms of human communication can contain fallacies.

Index of Fallacies:

-   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Definition of False Flag:

1 : a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it In case you didn't know, a false flag is an incident that is designed to deceive people into thinking it was actually carried out by someone else.

2 : a deliberate misrepresentation of motives or identity Maybe more troublesome is the fact that a small percentage of sources were recruited under false flags or based on coercion.

3 : a flag used to disguise the identity of something (such as a ship). 

-   Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Example of False Flag:

      Lyndon Johnson: 1964 Tonkin Gulf attack never happened as stated.

The official line was that, in August 1964, the North Vietnamese twice attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. That was the incident that led to Congress passing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and President Johnson's dramatic buildup of our forces. As it turns out, according to top secret documents finally released by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2005, the second attack never happened. Somebody skewed the data to make it look that way.

As far back as 1972, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was pushing the NSA to release what its files contained on the Gulf of Tonkin. They stonewalled, even as late as 2004 when FOIA request pushed for it. According to the New York Times, high-level officials at the NSA were "fearful that [declassification] might prompt uncomfortable comparisons with the flawed intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq."

-   Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p. 51 Apr 4, 2011

Definition of Fifth Generation Warfare:

1 : Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) is warfare that is conducted primarily through non-kinetic military action, such as social engineering, misinformation, cyberattacks, along with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and fully autonomous systems. Fifth generation warfare has been described by Daniel Abbot as a war of "information and perception".

-  Wikipedia

Definition of Fourth Turning (Strauss-Howe Generational Theory):

1 : a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history. According to the theory, historical events are associated with recurring generational personas (archetypes). Each generational persona unleashes a new era (called a turning) lasting around 20–25 years, in which a new social, political, and economic climate (mood) exists. They are part of a larger cyclical "saeculum" (a long human life, which usually spans between 80 and 100 years, although some saecula have lasted longer). The theory states that a crisis recurs in American history after every saeculum, which is followed by a recovery (high). During this recovery, institutions and communitarian values are strong. Ultimately, succeeding generational archetypes attack and weaken institutions in the name of autonomy and individualism, which eventually creates a tumultuous political environment that ripens conditions for another crisis.

- Wikipedia

- (Brief historical timeline) The Revolutionary War and eventual founding of the United States occured in 1776, roughly 80 years later resulted in the Civil War in the early 1860's, roughly 80 years later the United States and World War II occured in early 1940's and now the United States 80 years later is at war against 'the invisible enemy' in 2020.

Definition of Groupthink:

1 : the process in which bad decisions are made by a group because its members do not want to express opinions, suggest new ideas, etc. that others may disagree with. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Infiltration:

1 : the process of secretly becoming part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that a group thinks or behaves.

-   Cambridge Dictionary

Definition of Mass Formation Psychosis:

1 : Psychosis is when people lose some contact with reality.

2: Mass formation psychosis is when a large part of a society focuses its attention to a leader(s) or a series of events and their attention focuses on one small point or issue.

3: Followers can be hypnotized and be led anywhere, regardless of data proving otherwise.

A key aspect of the phenomena is that the people they identify as the leaders – the one’s that can solve the problem or issue alone – they will follow that leader(s) regardless of any new information or data.

Furthermore, anybody who questions the leader’s narrative are attacked and disregarded.

There are four key components needed for an environment to experience a mass formation psychosis:

1. Lack of social bonds or decoupling of societal connections
2. Lack of sense-making (things don’t make sense)
3. Free-floating anxiety (general sense of uneasiness that is not tied to any particular object or specific situation)
4. Free-floating psychological discontent.

When followers start to participate in a strategy to deal with the object of anxiety, new social bonds typically emerge and people change from a highly aversive negative mental state and isolation, to the exact opposite to the extremely high-level of connectedness that exists.

-  https://strangesounds.org/2022/01/definition-of-mass-formation-psychosis.html

Definition of Meme:

1 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.

2 : an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media.

-   Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Definition of Operation Mockingbird:

1 : is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. 

-   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Paradigm of Problem, Reaction, Solution:

(Latin: Ordo ab Chao – Order out of Chaos)

1 : the government creates or exploits a problem blaming it on others (false flag).

2 : the people react asking the government for help willing to give up their rights.

3 : the government offers the solution that was planned long before the crisis.

Definition of Patriot:

1 : a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.

2. a person who regards himself or herself as a defender, especially of individual rights, against presumed interference by the federal government.

Definition of Propaganda:

1 : capitalized : a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions.

2 : the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.

3 : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause.

also : a public action having such an effect 

-   Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Definition of Psychological Operations (PSYOP):

1 : Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives. Also called PSYOP. See also overt peacetime psychological operations programs; perception management. 

-   Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005

Definition of Psychological Projection:

1 : is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others

-   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Definition of Symbology:

1 : the art of expression by symbols.

2 : the study or interpretation of symbols.

3 : a system of symbols.

-   Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Definition of Traitor:

1 : a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.

2 : a person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.

Definition of ‘in a’ Vacuum (phrase):

1 : existing separately, or considered separately, from other people, events, or ideas, and not influenced by them. 

-   MacMillan Dictionary

Definition of Victimhood:

1 : the condition of having been hurt, damaged, or made to suffer, especially when you want people to feel sorry for you because of this or use it as an excuse for something. 

-   Cambridge Dictionary