The Ellipsis manual of weaponized communication
The Ellipsis Manual works on hacking into the obedience tripwires that are hardwired in the human brain. The techniques you'll learn employ a range of skills ranging from profiling to non-compliant hypnosis.
The following is an excerpt from the book:
The Ellipsis manual has been written for the field operator to engineer behavior of subjects in the field. The techniques you will master here involve psychological influence, persuasion and the engineering of human behavior.
The Nature of Psychological Obedience
In July of 1961, a researcher and Yale University Psychologist named Stanley Milgram began a series of experiments that would thereafter be included on the pages of every basic psychology textbook in the world. These experiments measured the willingness of subjects to obey someone they perceived as an authority figure who instructed them to do things against their own desires and morals. Participants were asked to repeatedly deliver 'shocks' to a person on the opposite side of a wall when they answered a question incorrectly. The authority figures in this experiment, dressed in lab coats and carrying clipboards, would continually tell them to deliver higher and more dangerous levels of electric shock to the 'participants' opposite the wall. The number of students who complied with the authority figures' requests was shocking. Some students continued despite protests and even while weeping for the victim in the other room.
Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram's subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a "cute, fluffy puppy" who was given real, albeit apparently harmless, electric shocks. They found similar findings to Milgram: half of the male subjects and all of the females obeyed to the end. Many subjects showed high levels of distress during the experiment and some openly wept.
In 1955 a similar study on obedience was done to see if people would be more likely to disobey a law or regulation because they witnessed a 'high status' person break the rule than if they witnessed a low status person doing it. In this experiment, a model wearing a business suit and polished shoes stood at the crosswalks of several intersections in downtown Austin, Texas. When the model disobeyed the 'do not cross' signal, the chances of people at the intersection following his actions were drastically higher than when the model did the SAME action wearing wrinkled and soiled street clothing. Simply perceiving someone to have higher social status drastically altered the behavior of subjects in the intersections. CLASS COUNTS.1
While all of us would like to believe we are in control of our selves and make our own decisions, our choices are almost all the result of some outside influence. Our subconscious picks up on subtle cues and overt actions alike. From a radio commercial you think you’re ignoring to a random headline you skip over while walking past a newspaper stand, these seemingly innocent and powerless things have the ability to change the course of your own personal history. We are bombarded with advertising, messages, flashy banners on web pages and constant marketing hype throughout almost every day. It’s an endless sea of nauseating requests for you to part with a little bit of your money.
Human beings are programmed to seek direction in most things that we do. Even if we aren’t aware of it, or we’d like to deny it, our brains search for shortcuts and loopholes all the time. It helps us to make sense of the world and seeking directional cues from our environment on an unconscious level actually helps us to manage how much of our mental capacity we are spending on seemingly mundane tasks and thoughts. If you had to consciously think about which direction to drive every day, instead of unconsciously following the lines on the road and the flow of traffic, driving would be more stressful than combat.
The reason so many people buy The Ellipsis Manual in paperback is for study and note-taking. The book was written as a reference, study and training manual. It was intended to be marked up, used and written in.
The following is an excerpt from the book:
The Ellipsis manual has been written for the field operator to engineer behavior of subjects in the field. The techniques you will master here involve psychological influence, persuasion and the engineering of human behavior.
The Nature of Psychological Obedience
In July of 1961, a researcher and Yale University Psychologist named Stanley Milgram began a series of experiments that would thereafter be included on the pages of every basic psychology textbook in the world. These experiments measured the willingness of subjects to obey someone they perceived as an authority figure who instructed them to do things against their own desires and morals. Participants were asked to repeatedly deliver 'shocks' to a person on the opposite side of a wall when they answered a question incorrectly. The authority figures in this experiment, dressed in lab coats and carrying clipboards, would continually tell them to deliver higher and more dangerous levels of electric shock to the 'participants' opposite the wall. The number of students who complied with the authority figures' requests was shocking. Some students continued despite protests and even while weeping for the victim in the other room.
Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram's subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a "cute, fluffy puppy" who was given real, albeit apparently harmless, electric shocks. They found similar findings to Milgram: half of the male subjects and all of the females obeyed to the end. Many subjects showed high levels of distress during the experiment and some openly wept.
In 1955 a similar study on obedience was done to see if people would be more likely to disobey a law or regulation because they witnessed a 'high status' person break the rule than if they witnessed a low status person doing it. In this experiment, a model wearing a business suit and polished shoes stood at the crosswalks of several intersections in downtown Austin, Texas. When the model disobeyed the 'do not cross' signal, the chances of people at the intersection following his actions were drastically higher than when the model did the SAME action wearing wrinkled and soiled street clothing. Simply perceiving someone to have higher social status drastically altered the behavior of subjects in the intersections. CLASS COUNTS.1
While all of us would like to believe we are in control of our selves and make our own decisions, our choices are almost all the result of some outside influence. Our subconscious picks up on subtle cues and overt actions alike. From a radio commercial you think you’re ignoring to a random headline you skip over while walking past a newspaper stand, these seemingly innocent and powerless things have the ability to change the course of your own personal history. We are bombarded with advertising, messages, flashy banners on web pages and constant marketing hype throughout almost every day. It’s an endless sea of nauseating requests for you to part with a little bit of your money.
Human beings are programmed to seek direction in most things that we do. Even if we aren’t aware of it, or we’d like to deny it, our brains search for shortcuts and loopholes all the time. It helps us to make sense of the world and seeking directional cues from our environment on an unconscious level actually helps us to manage how much of our mental capacity we are spending on seemingly mundane tasks and thoughts. If you had to consciously think about which direction to drive every day, instead of unconsciously following the lines on the road and the flow of traffic, driving would be more stressful than combat.
The reason so many people buy The Ellipsis Manual in paperback is for study and note-taking. The book was written as a reference, study and training manual. It was intended to be marked up, used and written in.
