What Is Surveillance Capitalism? Is It Related To The Phenomenon of Group (Gang) Stalking?

If your logic is, “I have nothing to hide" then, that makes you nothing. A nothing without rights. You should strive to be somebody.

IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM

Surveillance Capitalism is the new economic order that claims that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; (2) A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinate to a new global architecture of behavioral modification. (3) A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history. (4) The foundational framework for a surveillance economy. (5) As significant threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth. (6) The origin of a new instrumetarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy. (7) A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty. (8) An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an over through of the people’s sovereignty.

Part of surveillance capitalism is something called behavioral surplus data. What is behavioral surplus data? Behavioral surplus data is data that goes beyond online products and service use. It’s information related to a person’s age, profession, lifestyle, habits, and a range of personal and professional preferences. For example, surveillance capitalism knows that I like to exercise, that I like to workout in my home gym rather than use a paid for membership. They also probably know what type of faces appeal to me. Finally, the behavioral surplus gets fed into advanced manufacturing process known as “machine intelligence,” and fabricated into prediction products that anticipate what you will do now, soon, and in the future. This entire scenario can help explain electronic harassment and what behavioral expressions perpetrators expect from their targets. Eventually, surveillance capitalist discovered that the most-predictive behavioral data come from intervening “in the state of play" in order to nudge, coax, tune, and herd behavior toward a certain profitable outcome.

Whereas Michel Foucault called the purpose of medical scientific inquiry and medical development “the will to knowledge” or “the will to know", Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism “knowledge to power". Where once it was about automated information flows about humans, rather the goal has become with enough informational intelligence the goal is to automate us. However, I call it grooming or behavioral modification.

As far as I can tell, the phenomenological narrative of Group (Gang) Stalking with electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture sounds very familiar with the following.

“Surveillance capitalism disposed us to rationalize the situation in resigned cynicism, create excuses that act as defense mechanisms (“I have nothing to hide.”), or find ways to stick our head in the sand, choosing ignorance out of frustration and helplessness [These are the side effects of abuse when wagered against the helpless.] Surveillance capitalism operates through unprecedented asymmetries [These vulnerabilities of cyber security allow for the very conditions for abuse to operate] in knowledge and that knowledge accrues to power [otherwise known as intelligence]. Surveillance capitalism knows everything about us, whereas the operations are designed to be unknowable to us. They accumulate vast domains of new knowledge from us, but not for us. They predict our futures for the sake of others' gains, not ours. As long as surveillance capitalism and its behavioral futures markets are allowed to thrive, ownership of the new means of behavioral modification eclipses ownership of the means of production as the fountainhead of capitalistic wealth and power in the twenty-first century.”

Does this not sound like it might fit into the phenomenological narrative of Group (Gang) Stalking with electronic targeted physical assaults and psychotronic torture? A common theme runs through out these two narratives.

Question:

My not the phenomenology have been originated with Google? According to the book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", Google was the pioneer of surveillance capitalism. Google is said to have perfected the mechanisms like when General Motors invented and perfected “managerial capitalism.” And then came Facebook.

The idea of engineering human behavior for “behavioral underwriting” shouldn’t sound so far fetched. I mean we’ve genetically modified a bunch of organic species already, why should this be so hard to believe? Except they changed the name GMO to a more “friendly” and ambiguous term for “labeling purposes.”

Source:

“The Phenomenology of Group Stalking(Gang Stalking): Content analysis of subjective experience.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020 April, (17)7: 2506. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7178134/

Shoshana Zuboff. (2019) “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The fight for human future at the new frontier of power.” New York. Public Affairs.