Group Pressure: The Delphi Technique - from Arianna's Site

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So this is how they turned so many Ameircans into sheep. And guesses if they try and use this technique on this DU site to get us to hate our Democratic Leaders?

Posted at Arianna's Site by New Century Heratic:

"Using the Delphi Technique to Achieve Consensus
How it is leading us away from representative government to an illusion of citizen participation

The Delphi Technique and consensus building are both founded in the same principle - the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, with synthesis becoming the new thesis. The goal is a continual evolution to "oneness of mind" (consensus means solidarity of belief) -the collective mind, the holistic society, the holistic earth, etc. In thesis and antithesis, opinions or views are presented on a subject to establish views and opposing views. In synthesis, opposites are brought together to form the new thesis. All participants in the process are then to accept ownership of the new thesis and support it, changing their views to align with the new thesis. Through a continual process of evolution, "oneness of mind" will supposedly occur.

SKIP.....

The facilitators or change agents encourage each person in a group to express concerns about the programs, projects, or policies in question. They listen attentively, elicit input from group members, form "task forces," urge participants to make lists, and in going through these motions, learn about each member of a group. They are trained to identify the "leaders," the "loud mouths," the "weak or non-committal members," and those who are apt to change sides frequently during an argument.

Suddenly, the amiable facilitators become professional agitators and "devil's advocates." Using the "divide and conquer" principle, they manipulate one opinion against another, making those who are out of step appear "ridiculous, unknowledgeable, inarticulate, or dogmatic." They attempt to anger certain participants, thereby accelerating tensions. The facilitators are well trained in psychological manipulation. They are able to predict the reactions of each member in a group. Individuals in opposition to the desired policy or program will be shut out.

The Delphi Technique works. It is very effective with parents, teachers, school children, and community groups. The "targets" rarely, if ever, realize that they are being manipulated. If they do suspect what is happening, they do not know how to end the process. The facilitator seeks to polarize the group in order to become an accepted member of the group and of the process. The desired idea is then placed on the table and individual opinions are sought during discussion. Soon, associates from the divided group begin to adopt the idea as if it were their own, and they pressure the entire group to accept their proposition. "
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http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22575

[Hugin]

1. Typo in your headline applegrove...

It's Delphi with an "H"...

Otherwise, recommended. Best way to end this sort of manipulation
is by shining a light on it.

[applegrove]

3. Thanks. I saw the site from some other poster. And I agree - education,

education, education on all their techniques. Seems a shame we have to learn manipulation at a national level. But this is the only way I guess we can be on top of it all.

Sad really.

[Hugin]

5. Surreal implementation...

I'm pretty sure it's some form of the Delphi Technique
which the RWers are using with their "Social Security Destruction Tour".

However, filling the hall with paid facilitators only, defeats the purpose.

This is one of the behaviors which convinces me the election was
stolen. The dysfunctional methods which were used in the campaign
are being used because "they worked". Those methods didn't
really work and it was some mechanical count manipulation which
in reality didn't directly change public attitudes only serves to make what is being done seem all that much stranger when viewed by an observer.

There I go again... Talking about reality again.

Otherwise, recommended. Best way to end this sort of manipulation
is by shining a light on it.

(Sorry applegrove I tried to remove my typo notice, but, the
edit period on my post had expired. Dang, that time must be short!)

[applegrove]

6. Sociopaths change people's thinking all the time. 1% of people

of sociopaths and fool many if not all those around them. So it is not out of the ordinary at all that America as a whole voted tribal & were lured into voting for one wedge issue or another. All Karl Rove needs are percentages. That is the big crime. How the GOP worked for years to come up with he right set of manipulator and wedge issue to have a plurality. And to trick the economically vulnerable freeper - Christian set to vote against their best interest in exchange for giving them patriotic feelings. Patriots is kind of like TV. I does not make your life better but it sure feels that way. And patriotism does not cost the Repukes much to deliver on.

I agree that there was voter intimidation (if only the black felon lists were attacked for accuracy in Florida and not the Hispanic or white felon list.. well that is quite obvious what that is). But i whole-heartedly 100% do not for a moment believe someone got jiggy with the voting machines. Perhaps fewer voting machines were put out in blacker neighborhoods? I do not know. But the election was stolen..by stealing hearts and minds.

Anyone who wants to find a way or a conspiracy to undo the election is just desperate to not face the reality that the WH will be filled with sociopaths for the next 4 years. And you will have to face up to their propaganda and lies for 4 years at least. That is the harder truth to accept. That Bush really did win the election and the lies are going on in the hearts and minds of Americans. That is a much bigger problem.

I too ran into a sociopath who set me up in the workplace. He was also in my life outside of work. And that was the harder truth.. that he had been in the lives of countless friends and had targeted me life diminishment on a grand scale to please his own powerlust & ego. But in my shock and pain I could not say that or put it all together. I could not talk about the actual interference in my private life. I could only mutter about the harassment in the workplace and recall disjointed weirdness that I experienced in my private life amongst close friends of his. It was simply too much to bear all at once. So I denied the greater crime..until I was ready to accept it. And it has been unbearable but you get stronger and you go deeper and you survive. And then when you finally feel safe you are so appreciative of every little bird and every little thing in your life.

Some day - if you do not end up stuck - you will accept too that Bush won the election so all the civil servants and the press have to give him his do and report on the way Bush sees the world and what he wants for America. Because Americans voted that way. And when you are ready to accept that truth - that human beings are so vulnerable to talented sociopaths - you will give up the voting machine dream. And you will accept the horror that will be the next 4 years.

Part of that acceptance includes learning how the manipulating is done. What I get from this Delphi article (and I have lived it and seen people who were good friends of mine or colleagues live it) is that herding is a very effective way to instill fear in people. And of course.. fear is the trade of the sociopath. That is how they get to our brain stems and move in. I think this article also teaches how important it is to know your positions and to not knee-jerk react.

Delphi reminds us to not all of a sudden start attacking Democratic leaders..just because three people beside you at the DU go for Lieberman (and for a few weeks there it was in every 10th post). Why do they not go for Biden with the same intensity? He does the same votes? The simple answer is because Karl Rove is going for the New York vote and like what he did with Texas..he needs to flip a few important & pinnacle New York leaders to do it. Then the rest will follow. Delphi for sure.

So - sorry we do not agree on voting machines being rigged. Trust me - I have life experience of this. Great sociopaths will get people to think exactly what they want. If you can scare people right down to their caveman brain.. you can own them. And the first 4 years of Bush Admin was all about "not" healing America from a terrible terrorist attack. Not catching bin Laden. Lying to get the favored precedent in place for the attack on Iraq. Fear of Christians hating gays, of liberals being targeted for speaking out, relentless, relentless fear.

So here is to not falling for Delphi Crap here at the DU. Remember.. they have already identified the Democratic Leaders they want to flip in New York State. When somebody asks you to actively hate Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or Joe Liebermann.. you tell them that is playing into Karl Rove's Delphi hands.

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2. the right is onto this as well

Phillys Shafly's Eagle Forum is running the same article.

[applegrove]

4. What do you mean they are onto this? This is what the repukes do

for a living.