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Gershon: The same art as concealment, crudely, installed from outside

2026-09-05T22:44:40Z

The same art as concealment, crudely, installed from outside

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	We are teaching recruits to remove their own armour. We think that is right. We are aware of what it is. {{R\|warning}}		We are teaching recruits to remove their own armour. We think that is right. We are aware of what it is. {{R\|warning}}

			[[Concealment]] identifies what this practice actually is: a part of a mind made uninhabitable is a part of a mind '''concealed''' — from anything that would burrow in, and from its owner, who cannot notice the loss because the faculty that would notice is inside the hidden region. A thought-terminating device is that art, crudely, installed from outside by someone who was not asked. The two entries have been describing one practice at different levels of skill, and the skilled version — a practitioner doing it to themselves, deliberately, and able to undo it — is something the wiki has no account of anyone achieving. {{R\|contested}}

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Gershon: Psyop technique, and the memetic arm of inoculation

2026-09-05T22:24:29Z

Psyop technique, and the memetic arm of inoculation

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	The act of forcefully penetrating the mind of a specimen that is either unwilling or incapable of consent. It covers a full spectrum of actions, ranging from suggestions to outright erasure of the will. Light ~~MindRape~~ may occur during or following deeply traumatic events. Heavier variants present a strong opponent in the form of the victim's whole mind. ~~////<<<<<>>>>>~~		{{Doctrine\|
			It is an assault, and it is also the most effective individual defence anyone has found.

			Those are not two uses of the technique. They are the same act, and the difference is who is holding it.
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			The act of forcefully penetrating the mind of a specimen that is either unwilling or incapable of consent. It covers a full spectrum of actions, ranging from suggestions to outright erasure of the will. Light mind rape may occur during or following deeply traumatic events. Heavier variants present a strong opponent in the form of the victim's whole mind. {{R\|inherited}}

			== It is a psyop technique ==

			The inherited passage reads as though this were an esoteric practice performed by seekers. It is mostly not. '''It is done at scale, by institutions, through ordinary media, to populations who never meet the operator.''' {{R\|contested}}

			The [[Mind Divers]] entry describes the intelligence side of this — entering a subject to gather. This entry is the other half: entering to '''leave something behind'''. The methods are the ones set out under [[Meme Wars]] and [[Fifth Generational Warfare]], applied to an individual or a demographic rather than to a public, and their defining property is the same: a successful operation is indistinguishable from the subject having simply come to think that. {{R\|unverified}}

			== The defensive use ==

			This is the part that belongs in [[Inoculation]] and was missing from it, and it is the reason the entry was rewritten. {{R\|warning}}

			A mind can be armoured against burrowing by installing '''thought-terminating devices''' — the short, final, unanswerable phrase that arrives at the threshold of a dangerous line of thought and ends it. The term is not ours; it comes from the study of coercive persuasion, where it was catalogued as a marker of a captured mind. It works. Something arriving to burrow in requires a way in, and a mind that reliably stops at the same point does not offer one. {{R\|contested}}

			So the cults have a third arm of inoculation, alongside the chemical and the administrative: '''memetic'''. Cheaper than [[Soma]], faster than the [[Pineal Gland]] campaign, and it does not require anyone's cooperation or knowledge. {{R\|unverified}}

			The mechanism is the horror and it should be stated plainly rather than admired: '''a thought-terminating device works by making part of a mind uninhabitable.''' That is why nothing can burrow in there. It is also uninhabitable to its owner, permanently, and he will not experience this as a loss because the faculty that would notice is the faculty that was removed. You defend the house by bricking up rooms and telling nobody which ones. {{R\|warning\|note=this is the clearest thing on the wiki and we have no counter-argument to it}}

			== The problem this poses ==

			Every entry in [[:Category:The Long War]] treats inoculation as something done to populations by remote institutions, which keeps it comfortably abstract. This one is done to a person, individually, and it works, and by the wiki's own account it may save them. {{R\|contested}}

			A recruit should sit with the following and not resolve it quickly: the most reliable individual protection against the Dark that anyone has documented is an assault performed on someone without their consent, that damages them permanently, that they cannot detect, and that this wiki's own [[Help:Reading this wiki\|method]] — question the claim, follow the disagreement, refuse the short final answer — is specifically the practice of dismantling exactly that protection. {{R\|firsthand\|by=Gershon}}

			We are teaching recruits to remove their own armour. We think that is right. We are aware of what it is. {{R\|warning}}

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			\| from = The inherited passage, from an unnamed hand. The literature on coercive persuasion, at one remove. [[Meme Wars]] and [[Fifth Generational Warfare]] read against the individual case.
			\| by = Gershon.
			\| doubt = The defensive reading is the wiki's and is not attested anywhere we can point to; it is an inference from the mechanism. The claim that a thought-terminating device blocks something arriving from the Dark, rather than merely blocking a thought, is entirely unsupported. The inherited passage ended in a string of characters that was not text, which we have removed; it remains in the page history.
			\| wanted = Any account of an installed device failing, or being removed, and what the person was like afterwards.
			}}

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Gershon: Filed into the category scheme

2026-09-05T12:05:01Z

Filed into the category scheme

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	The act of forcefully penetrating the mind of a specimen that is either unwilling or incapable of consent. It covers a full spectrum of actions, ranging from suggestions to outright erasure of the will. Light MindRape may occur during or following deeply traumatic events. Heavier variants present a strong opponent in the form of the victim's whole mind. ////<<<<<>>>>>		The act of forcefully penetrating the mind of a specimen that is either unwilling or incapable of consent. It covers a full spectrum of actions, ranging from suggestions to outright erasure of the will. Light MindRape may occur during or following deeply traumatic events. Heavier variants present a strong opponent in the form of the victim's whole mind. ////<<<<<>>>>>

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The act of forcefully penetrating the mind of a specimen that is either unwilling or incapable of consent. It covers a full spectrum of actions, ranging from suggestions to outright erasure of the will. Light MindRape may occur during or following deeply traumatic events. Heavier variants present a strong opponent in the form of the victim's whole mind. ////<<<<<>>>>>