vigilantism – Stepping Stones

Civilian Collaborators in the System of Covert Persecution: Introduction

This article concerns a covert system of individual control and social engineering that corresponds to an obscure but important subject termed (inappropriately) “gang stalking” or “organized stalking” by alternative media. For the most part, I simply select and present extracts from researchers into this subject to outline an abusively controlling social system that is, by design, commonly unacknowledged, rarely spoken of and systematically discredited. Despite its main principles of operation being detailed in the recent histories of major nations, the essential details of this abusive system are confined to alternative media wherein it’s discussed with increasing frequency, albeit in a highly distorted fashion. Pre-eminently complex, the system and its practices are based on the main facets of ultra-modern intelligence operations, techno-social civilian “collaboration”*, and classified advanced technologies.

*As will be featured in this article, the term “collaborator” is taken from the term “unofficial collaborator” used to classify civilians who “unofficially” participated in the Stasi’s covert persecution of civilians. Note that the modern-day “gang stalking” equivalent term is “perp”, as in “perpetrator”, which is more appropriate yet still inadequate to represent this particular form of agency.

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed: A Micro Book Review

The book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (2015) is a seminal examination of the modern form of public shaming – namely, online shaming – which been made increasingly prominent by the expansion and intensification of social media culture.
Although the text is a little lightweight for my preferences, the writing is effective and revealing of its topic. Ronson’s documentary style approach that blends some philosophy into investigative interview is quite fitting here, particularly in introducing the world of online shaming. Shamed seems especially valuable in that it appears to be the first popular work to explore and assess the nature of online shaming in its social and personal effects.
Since the book is based on a broad variety of personal insights that are revealing of human nature and cultural conditions, I imagine that most would find interest in its content even if not particularly engaged with social media (ironically, it so happened that I only signed up to ~~Twitter~~ 𝕏 a few months after having read this book).

The Book Notes

The notes featured in this post are composed from my extracted highlights of the book and consist largely of my paraphrases of the original text. However, I have also altered, elaborated, and added to Ronson’s details and points to represent what I considered to be the essential significance of each passage. Thus, instead of creating a notes summary of the book I’ve compiled its most substantial information such to enhance the reception of its significance.