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SPECIAL "ODIE'S TINFOIL HAT TIME" THREAD -- HOW BTS/BH ARE FORCING YOU TO "UN-BRAINWASH" YOURSELF

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Welcome my fellow tinfoil hat connoisseurs! This week is a special thread, brought on by Big Hit playing games with everyone. Yes, I too waited around for 12 AM KST because that is life now. Welcome to comeback season.

This week, theories are exploding from every possible direction, but even as ARMYs try to figure out what's truly part of the narrative and what's just our paranoid reaching, I can't help but form my own theories ... about the secret lessons we might be unconsciously learning.

The feeling that anything and everything could be a clue is an extreme level of theorizing that I've witnessed in the fandom. At the very OPPOSITE end of the spectrum is a level of blind faith or the refusal to question anything and to trust everything said completely.

The "glitch" react is probably the best example of the former while BH/BTS denying the comeback LY: Her comeback date (which ended up being exactly accurate) is probably the best example of the latter.

Could it be the ultimate goal is to push fans from both extremes towards the middle, to a place where fans can better understand genuine information, question and debate it, and not necessarily just accept information because it's given to them?

Many were ready to believe that Euphoria had nothing to do with the comeback even though "comback trailer" is in the code. I guess removing an "e" changes the meaning.

Blatant denial would mean not questioning the coincidence. ...Or perhaps, you are meant to do just that!

These little incidents inevitably create a strong sense of cognitive dissonance.
You believe something that's untrue and you question something that is true. Or you allow something to be both true AND untrue at the same time. This type of mental conditioning is something that-

one reads about in dystopian novels like George Orwell's "1984." In the novel, the people were the victims of "doublethink."

It's described in the screen cap below.

(CREDIT: cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/su…)

Mental conditioning or breaking down the minds/free will of the masses is often the main tool by which tyrants in a dystopian society rule. And there are many methods one can use to bring about that conditioning.

For example, as I mentioned in the I-can't-believe-anyone-believed-it Illuminati thread, some fear secret messages being used in music to influence the minds and behavior of others.

There's research that suggests music has the ability to influence the brain. And prolonged exposure to certain types of music can have an impact.

ashford.edu/online-degrees…
cnn.com/2013/04/15/hea…
academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

The "Pied Piper" in fiction used his flute to lure away rats, and later, the children of the non-paying villagers.

In BTS's "Pied Piper," they seem to acknowledge the danger of being lulled into complacency and abandoning everyday life and responsibility to spend all day fangirl or fanboying.

Another tool of dystopian dictators and governments is forced ignorance.

In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, books are outlawed and destroyed in an effort to keep society in check. People are only to believe what they're told and not ask "why."

As any ARMY can tell you, knowledge of various types of literature often plays a role in understanding BTS's inspiration and the themes behind certain songs.

Fans uncover hints, which leads them to books, which leads them to new information and, perhaps, ways of thinking.

There are other examples I'm sure ... but the point is that you can argue that BTS is quietly demonstrating methods of mass control while also forcing ARMYs to exercise behaviors that fight off these methods of mental conditioning.

It might be a coincidence ... it might not be.

But one of the most powerful things you can do with a message is put it out there & let people think about it for themselves.

You don't tell them what to think or how to think, but give them the opportunity to do so independently.

So, by giving us the freedom to theorize without going out of their way to direct the narrative, we are given a potent opportunity to mentally excel in a way not possible in a society that limits freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

If BTS is really going to hit out at the government, it might not just be done musically.

It might manifest in how intelligently, and freely the fandom thinks. In how we question things and weigh what information we choose to accept. We might quietly be a "MIC DROP" moment.

So what do YOU think? Is BTS mentally conditioning us to resist mental conditioning by embracing our need to research, analyze, and share information...or is this fandom swimming with intellectuals purely by coincidence?

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