Knowing How Your Brain Is Stupid - The Misinformation Effect

 https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-misinformation-effect-2795353

Your choice of words can have a subtle and yet profound impact on communicating what actually happened.  The telephone game relies on misinformation and misreporting what you witnessed.  Facebook is a good source of telephone game style misinformation.  Although actual words are recorded and could theoretically be produced and read, people will latch on to the stupidest of the stupid and go out into real life and outstupid every other person that will pay them heed.  Vaccination is a fun topic for misinformation like this.  Throw around some fake scientific jargon, and when spread around all that will be remembered is the source and a few sketchy details.  “MRNA polymerase blah blah blah…furin cleavage site blah blah…vaccine shedding blah blah…”. The next day at work, “There’s this really smart doctor named Malone who says vaccines are bad!!”

But more important to this post is the tactic of producing leading questions.  Picture the not so honest cop that thinks his next promotion is tied to getting confessions.  Recapping the linked article, the wording of questions can alter eyewitness testimony.  You ask “How fast were the cars going when they hit each each other?” vs. “How fast when they smashed into each other?” has a significant impact on post event remembrance.  Like the Dunning-Kruger tests where self reporting skill level always have a significant portion of respondents claiming they are cooler than they are, there are plenty of stupid brains incorporating things they remember as fact when it’s just not true.  Even to the point where our leading question about the car accident can have an eyewitness claiming they witnessed the accident when they really just rubbernecked it minutes after it happened.  Yes, eyewitness testimony sucks.

Gematria is a set of leading questions and fake memories.  Although it’s true and I constantly beat the point to death, at its core every reasonably useful (smallish) number is evil, some numbers are more evil than others.  These people have had enough exposure and positive feedback through the Attaboy!^TM process that certain values have more significance than others.  (Although the synchronicity crowd is big on their own personalized set of values that they insist show how the world is existentially only serving their personal amusement.)

For a good example look no further than Freemasons.  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry

There are really only three actual degrees, apprentice, journeyman and master mason.  The master masonry titles have a lot of honorary titles that really don’t mean anything other than bragging rights.  I’m cooler than you because I’m a 17th level, you lowly 13th level piece of shit.  You buy the grog this week.  As soon as you become a master mason, you’ve already proven you can be trusted with the secrets of the super scary secret society bent on world domination.  Yet, since the highest level is 33 (that’s a lot of grog!) the number 33 to the gematria clown is super duper extra scary.  To the point that they’ll even manufacture it bogusly instead of just looking for it.  Note to self, repost the old content of the hotel floors at the Vegas music festival shooting where they fudged it to 33.  It was hilarious.

Even my stupid brain has been trained on what 33 means.  Lots of other overused numbers, too.  57, 201, 47, 113-my all time favorite, 666, 227 and 314, 42.  47 is notorious for a push to be remembered specifically with a questioning campaign - “What is 47?”  Buy your bumper sticker now at the shop!  Just don’t dwell on the irony that you are showing membership in a secret society far more dangerous than Freemasons, tue gematria disinfo crowd.  But even our friend 33, just by its existence, gematria history and prevalence is a leading question.  If you don’t know what 33 means you aren’t a good little gematria puppet and will get scolded for not spouting the cult party line that it’s masons.  No cookie for you.  As soon as I see a screenshot of a 33 from a gematria cipher I know there’s somebody somewhere thinking about not so scary in reality Freemasons being arbitrarily assigned a false label because they are in the thrall of some sports grifter.

33 is a lovely gematria number, just for the sake of the number without the history and secret society tie in.  Single word or short phrase in the reduction ciphers, oh yeah, there’s lots of 33’s happening everyday.  And a third degree mason, still a master?  3 would be just plain insulting.  Anybody can find a 3.  But get it up to two digits - the stupid brains start to pay notice.  Especially with the duplicate digits.  Face it, which number is cooler, 6 or 666?  8 or 88?  2 or 222?

And to be fair, the freemasonry content is a footnote now.  It mostly only shows up as a “the Jesuits control the Freemasons” aside since a different arbitrary target was picked based on engagement and views.  It doesn’t matter what the target is, what your clique is.  They all have a set of more magical target numbers to focus on.  It doesn’t matter if your clique is Qanon Trump content, cryptocurrency, or spirituality.  Your friendly cult leader will throw out the old chestnuts on a regular basis.