Lecture 10: Distinctiveness (II): Shockwave Effect

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Lecture 10 Distinctiveness (II) Shockwave
Effect the Virtual War

• 26th February 2003 (Wednesday)

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Structure of Lecture 10

• Concept of a Psychological War
• Stage Setting of 911
• Its Psychological Meanings
• Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network
  (MIME-NET) (I)
• Osama Bin Ladens Side
• MIME-NET (II)
• The American Side
• Conclusion Metamorphism of 911 by MIME-NET

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PART IConcept of a Psychological War
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

• Founder of Modern Psychology
• Ancient Psychology at Temple Street
• The Interpretation of Dreams
• The Observation of Human Consciousness
• The Hidden Concept of Human Sub-consciousness
• The World of Sex

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Psychological Studies of International
Relations

• Theorizing the International Relations by
  Psychology
• Abnormal Psychology Chairman Mao
• Prospect Theory Gambling Behaviors of
  Risk-taking and Risk-aversion
• Generational Politics
• Direct Psychological Assault on your Enemies 911

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Ronald Rumsfeld (US Defense Minister)

• Pearl Harbor Incident
• Rumsfeld Sr. in the Pacific Army
• Against any Rogue States
• Fans of President Theodore Roosevelt
• The best prize life offers is
• to work hard at work worth doing.
• President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09)
• Rumsfeld eradicating rogue states is the work
  worth doing
• Generational Politics
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bh/1773951.s
  tm

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PART IISymbolic Meanings of 911
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911 in the American Mindset

• Emergency number ( 999 in HK)
• First numerical sequence to be taught in
  childhood
• Concept of Generational Politics
• The most secured number ? the most insecure
  number
• Upside-down of the Concept of Security
• No more safe havens in the World?!

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Numerical Scary

• Magical Values of Numbers
• The Gipsy Culture and the fortune-tellers
• Crystal Ball and Taro Cards
• The 666 Analogy
• Story of Bill Gates and Microsoft
• The 1999 End of World Prophecy
• Y2K Numerical Problems
• 911911911
• Ability of the enemy to understand the numerical
  importance to the Americans
• Ability of the enemy to demonstrate their CONTROL
  over the magical numbers

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Symbolic Meanings of Twin Towers

• Twin Towers, World Trade Centers
• Build 1966-1977
• Height 110 stories
• Bible The Tower of Babel
• Signal of contempt against the Heaven
• Twin Towers Twin of Rome?!
• Legendary Twin-Founder of Rome
• Romulus and Remus
• Comparison between Pax
  Americana and the Roman Empire

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Armageddon?!

• Christian Prophecy
• Armageddon, Final Judgment by Jesus
• 2000 the Millennium Menace
• 2001-911 technical delay only?
• Flooding of Ghost Stories

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The Nostradamus Prophecy

• Nostradamus (1503-1566)
• French Astrologer
• The Centuries (1553)
• Prophecy of 10 centuries
• Distortion of Original Order
• Successful Foretold French Revolution,
  American Revolution, WWI, WWII, JFK Murder, Gulf
  War
• 1999 as the end of the world?

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Nostradamus Prophecy on 911?

• The sky will burn at forty-five degrees
  latitude, Fire approaches the great new city
  Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up
  When they want to have verification from the
  Normans.
• (45 degrees/ the great new city New York )
• "In the City of God there will be a great
  thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while
  the fortress endures, the great leader will
  succumb,
• The third big war will begin when the big city
  is burning.
• Author College student named Neil Marshall

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Messages from the Psychological Attack

• Expecting Armageddon Essential Readings in
  Failed Prophecy (Jon Stone Ed.)
• 911???????? (??)
• Implications
• Radical American Response after 911
• The American Psychology is Vulnerable
• Next Attack against USA Might be More
  Psychologically Planned and Executed

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PART III MIME-NET American Side
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Assigned Readings

• Main Text James Der Derian In Terrorem Before
  and After 9/11 (BD P.118-127)
• Supplementary Text Brian Jerkins The
  Organization Men Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack
  (HR P.1-14)

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James Der Derians Argument

• Professor, Institute of International Studies,
  Brown University
• Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network
  (MIME-NET)
• 911 fully revealed MIME-NETs Modern Capacity.
• MIME-NET as real shaper of the world order.
• Information Technology, War and Peace Project
  http//www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/
• Bias
• Only emphasized MIME-NET on the American side
• MIME-NET on the Muslim side of 911 was equally
  significant

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Iron Triangle

• President Eisenhower (1960)
• Military-Industrial-Executive Iron Triangle
• Military (the Producer)
• to make weapons for war
• Industrial (the Rich People)
• to earn money from selling new weapons
• Executive (the Eagles)
• to receive donations and gain support from the
  military and industrial

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MIME-NET Iron Pentagon

• Iron Triangle
• Media (CNN Silicon Valley)
• CNN War Against Terror http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS
  /2001/trade.center
• Setting 911 in the HEAVIEST Tone
• Division of Labor in the Iron Pentagon
• Media Political Role
• Entertainment Social Role

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Hollywood and 911

• Hollywood and International Politics
• What can you tell from Dr. Evil and Mini Me
  in the Hollywood Series of Austin Powers?
• Hollywood and 911
• Parallels of 911 Patriotism and Everyday Life and
  Entertainments
• Echoed the CNN Theme in the SOFTEST Tone
• American History in Patriotic Sound and Music
• http//www.wavethemes.org/7Eusa/index.html
• God Bless America by Celine Dion

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American Battles against MIME-NETs of its
Enemies

• In addition to the Propaganda War
• War against Taliban (2001)
• America Attack of Al-Jazerra (Qatar Gulf TV)s
  Television Station
• NATO War against Yugoslavia (1999)
• Accidental Bombing of Chinese Belgrade Embassy
• Xinhua Agency Reporters and their Neutral
  Reports on the Yugoslavian Reactions
• Chinese hackers Vs American official websites

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PART IV MIME-NET Osama Bin Ladens Side
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Qatars Gulf TV

• Al-Jazeera Television Network of Qatar
• Arab Worlds CNN
• 35 million daily watchers in the Middle East
• Only media established direct conversation with
  Osama Bin Laden
• Report on the Truths against American
  Perspectives and anti-war protests in the West
• Expansion in the CNN-way
• http//www.aljazeera.net/
• English Channel 2002
• Beijing Office 2002

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PR Gimmicks of Al-Qaeda

• Osama Bin Laden and his colleagues inside
  Al-Qaeda assumed the roles of the Executive,
  Industrial, Military and Entertainer already
• Image of Simplicity
• Mullah Omar of Taliban
• Standard Photo of Mingling with Fellow
  Followers
• Osama Bin Laden
• Arabic Clothing and Horses
• Caves of Afghanistan

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Tapes of Osama Bin Laden

• Osama Bin Ladens Speeches after 911
• October 7, 2001 (before USA bombed Afghanistan)
• November 3, 2001 (midst of Afg. War)
• December 13, 2001 (after Taliban collapsed)
• December 26, 2001 (rumors of his death)
• November 12, 2002 (East African Terrorism)
• February 11, 2003 (on Iraqi Crisis)
• http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/inte
  ractives.html
• ? Bin Ladens Messages Terror on Tape

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Ladens Message from the Videos and Tapes

• Prophecy?
• America will fall, etc, etc
• Order and Instruction?
• Signal Al-Qaeda and Followers to Launch New
  Attack?
• Secret Codes Precedence of WWII
• Western Censorship of Ladens Videos
• Itself as an Attack?
• Dash rumors of his death proved inability of
  Bush showed infallibility of the American
  enemies

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PART V Conclusion Metamorphism of the
Original 911 Development?
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Significance of the Psychological Nature of the
911 Attack

• Muslims Embrace of MIME-NET
• Previous Bias against Modern Technology
• Previous Inability to Infiltrate into Western
  World
• Paradox
• Against Islamic Preference of Non-propaganda
• Against Fundamentalist Aspiration of Simplicity
• Media Leakage of American Dominance Relatively
  Competitive among Various Spheres (political,
  economical, cultural)

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The Mimetic War of Images

• Wars and Conflicts of the Post-911 World Order
• Not Something that we can actually see,
  understand, or even prove their existence
• Wars and Conflicts on Cloned Images of Both
  Sides
• Images in international news forged by MIME-NET
  of different sides
• Images influence back the decision-making
  process
• Images further reinstated in the psychological
  mindsets of fellow people

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The Future

• Before 21st century state-centric wars
• Since 21st century network-centric wars
• Computer War Games
• Simulation
• RPG
• Networking
• Virtual Reality influencing back the Reality

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The End
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