We read about the 3 imperfections in my blog - https://www.mayoan.com/post/the-3-imperfections .
In this blog, I am going to focus only on the second type of imperfection, called Maya- the maya that affects mental model and intelligence.
Usually the forces of the antagonist, deploys 3 strategies to create this, Maya. They are as follows:
1. Misinformation: This is deliberately presenting misleading information for public or target’s consumption. This is spreading falsities.
Some of the examples are:
- A journalist accepting payment and promoting a marketing pitch of a product or company in the name
of establishing truth.
- Lying about credentials to land an admission into a university or to land in a job.
- Blatant lies of conmen with vile effects on unsuspecting people.
- Recording falsities in history and spreading false bodies of knowledge.
2. Mal-Information: These are half-truths.
- Presenting only a part of the whole story to make the target or public believe in an alternate version of
truth.
-Altering the sequence of truth so that the emotions/understandings of unsuspecting people are raised in the very wrong moment or in a time and place that favours the perpetrators.
- Joining an existing condition of suffering or elation to an unrelated cause and effect.
- Making people believe in feelings that are not theirs as their own and that are created by use of unjust causes and theatrics.
- General gas-lighting techniques/social-engineering tactics
- Recording partial truths in history
3. Hiding the truths: In an attempt to elicit or supress a certain reaction or to change time aspect of the reactions, some forces of antagonists, use this technique – to hide the truth or to allow that to emerge in a choice of their time/space.
Some of the examples are:
- A defected/betraying war-load using the popular sentiments related to uprising to trigger a war while making sure that the armament is empty.
- Reports from front lines on losses making it look like wins for the consumption of the top leadership.
There may be other strategies/tactics used by the antagonist forces, but the above 3 gives a good coverage on their basic tactics. Our personal value systems play an important role in protecting us from these evil influences. Besides our sincere attempts to gain knowledge and intelligence will go a long way in improving our mental capabilities such as our abilities to co-relate information, our ability to probe to the desired depth and breadth and to strengthen our intuition etc.,
If we look at the state of our ancient literature, we can understand how a very determined force of the antagonist in the role of an historian, philosopher or statesman or such can weave a Maya that stays unremoved for thousands of years! May the forces of the protagonist win and remove these kind of Maya to spread truth and enlightenment.
The effort to collect and record knowledge is important and the process should be meticulous and formal. The people involved in this effort to create or enhance the knowledge bodies should be of the right calibre and thoroughly professional and their output should be vetted by relevant experts to the right extent. The related bodies of knowledge should then be dispensed through formal academic institutions.