Total Information Dominance
How Babylon Controls the Narrative Not with Mere Propaganda but with the Illusion of Consensus and How to Resist
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Jerusalem, 701 BC. Dawn paints the limestone ramparts rose‑gold while acrid camp‑fire smoke from a hundred thousand Assyrian tents drifts up the Kidron Valley. Inside the city, sandals slap chipped flagstones as sentries scramble to the parapets. Below them the Rabshakeh (Hebrew: רַבְשָׁקֵה - “chief cupbearer”, the voice of Assyrian imperial propaganda)—broad‑shouldered, mail flashing—cups his hands to amplify a voice already trained to command regiments. He chooses Hebrew, not the courtly Aramaic of diplomacy, so every grandmother at the well, every child clutching a slingshot, every wavering conscript hears his taunt firsthand.
“Do not let Hezekiah deceive you… Do not let YHWH make you trust in Him!”
He paces beneath the walls garnering the attention of all. Behind him soldiers unroll leather scrolls stamped with the names of cities Assyria has vaporized—Lachish, Gaza, Hamath—proof‑props held high for the audience atop the rampart. The Rabshakeh’s words ricochet through alleyways, splashing into cisterns, vibrating shutters. Mothers hush infants; traders freeze mid‑haggle as the invader paints word‑pictures of starvation, siege madness, and crucified rebels. On the city’s high ground, King Hezekiah tears his robes, ink‑smeared dispatch still clutched in his fist. He staggers into the temple, spreads the letter on the cool stone, and whispers the only counter‑broadcast Babylon’s spin‑doctors cannot jam.
Night falls; torchlight flickers along the enemy palisades, a field of red‑orange constellations. Yet before the morning breeze snuffs the last ember, 185 000 seasoned soldiers lie like felled cedars—silent, un‑spun, incontrovertible. The siege of words met the God of Truth who judges every tongue (2 Kings 18–19).
If a single night of unfiltered truth collapsed Assyria’s propaganda campaign, what might divine scrutiny do to today’s information empires? When megaphones monopolize the message, who dares test their claims against the living God—and how? Could the very technologies that promise connection be constructing a digital siege‑ramp against our souls?
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What Is “Total Information Dominance”?
The term Total Information Dominance originates from U.S. military doctrine, specifically articulated in the 2003 Department of Defense Information Operations Roadmap, a strategic planning document commissioned under then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld1. The roadmap defines this concept as the capacity to control the full spectrum of information—infrastructure, content, access, and psychological perception—in both physical and cognitive domains of warfare.
In its military form, total information dominance involves the synchronized use of cyber operations, psychological warfare, electronic disruption, strategic communications, and media influence to paralyze an adversary’s decision-making capabilities. But in its more subtle, civilian application, it mutates into a system where the public's access to truth is curtailed—not through overt censorship, but through algorithmic manipulation, narrative saturation, and controlled gatekeeping.
The concept builds upon older Cold War information-warfare strategies like Operation Mockingbird, where intelligence agencies placed journalists in major newsrooms to subtly shape public opinion. Today, the strategy has evolved: Google’s algorithm controls 90% of search results, Wikipedia “edit wars” remove dissenting viewpoints, and AI tools curate content to maintain ideological conformity.
As the DoD Roadmap stated:
“Information, always a strategic resource, is now also a weapon, a target, and a means of warfare.”
The roadmap emphasizes the goal to “deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, and destroy” adversarial information systems. But what happens when the “adversary” is not a foreign government but the dissenting voice of a domestic citizen?
Total information dominance thus represents more than battlefield superiority—it is a totalizing vision for perception management, one that seeks not just to control what people know, but what they believe, feel, and ultimately accept as reality.
The Multi‑Stage Bait‑and‑Switch
From the 1920s to the 1960s Americans regarded Walter Cronkite as “the most trusted man in the nation.” Newspapers adopted codes of ethics; radio hosts recited the Fairness Doctrine. Trust was capital, and media corporations banked it like gold.
During the Cold War the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird placed more than 400 journalists on payroll, silently pre‑editing the national conversation.2
Beginning in the 1970s journalism schools reframed the press as an agent of social change. By the 1990s newsrooms shifted from neutral reporting to narrative‑driven storytelling—often indistinguishable from activism. Gallup shows public trust in mass media collapsing to 32 % in 2025, an all‑time low.3 Pew tracks a 46‑point partisan trust gap—news as catechism, not common ground.4 Harvard’s Shorenstein Center calculated 80‑92 % negative network coverage of the 45th president, dwarfing similar audits of predecessors.5
Parler was de‑platformed within forty‑eight hours after AWS pulled hosting—no court order, merely Terms‑of‑Service weaponised.6
Nigel Farage lost personal and business accounts for holding “non‑inclusive” views—financial rails repurposed as ideological choke points.7
Canada’s Freedom Convoy saw crowdfunding sites refund millions under government pressure, demonstrating monetary control as speech control.8
The Twitter Files reveal FBI “switch‑boarding” e‑mails that flagged domestic dissent as “foreign mal‑information,” throttling reach and shadow‑banning users.9
A UCLA audit of 2024 prime‑time scripts found 94 % portrayed collectivist politics favorably while mocking constitutional originalism.10 Satire, late‑night monologues, even preschool cartoons rehearse Babylon’s civic liturgy: trust the experts, outsource discernment, mock the heretics.
Classrooms Captured — Seeding Tomorrow’s Gatekeepers
John Dewey’s progressive pedagogy seeded a century‑long “long march through the institutions.” In 1970 only 3 % of elementary textbooks contained explicit social‑justice themes. By 2025 that figure exceeds 68 % according to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute11. Gender‑bread diagrams now appear in first‑grade health units. Economics courses praise collectivist economies while glossing over Holodomor graves.
Spring 2024: Columbia and Harvard lawns bloom with tent cities bearing hammer‑and‑sickle murals. Brookings logged 632 campus disruptions—speaker shout‑downs, lab arsons, building occupations—since 2020.12 Students graduate not merely credentialed but deputized for ideological crusade, entering media, tech, and civil service pipelines.
Reuters Institute finds 78 % of newsroom hires now hold J‑school degrees from programs teaching advocacy journalism as a normative standard13. Propaganda thus cycles: universities feed newsrooms, newsrooms feed classrooms—feedback looping Babylon’s orthodoxy.
In 1975 the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee unearthed Project SHAMROCK, COINTELPRO, and other programs tapping telegrams and infiltrating political movements14. The Committee warned that unchecked surveillance married to media manipulation would “hollow out the republic.” America hit the snooze button. Fifty years later the prophetic alarm screams.
Silicon Filters — The Hologram of Choice
A PNAS study (Epstein & Robertson, 2023) showed biased result‑ordering can sway undecided voters by 20 %—and up to 80 % when users remain unaware of bias. With Google handling ≈ 90 % of global queries, SEME is not a glitch; it is the steering wheel of history.15
Wikipedia co‑founder Larry Sanger laments an editorial monoculture. MIT’s 2025 audit of 20 000 political articles tallied a left‑to‑right citation ratio of 14 : 1, with 62 % of conservative perspectives tagged “fringe.”16
Facebook’s 2021 “Responsible Innovation” memo admits modifying News Feed to “elevate authoritative voices,” effectively sidelining grassroots reports.17 Slack screenshots from X (formerly Twitter) show visibility filtering—a euphemism for covert shadow‑bans.18
Stanford’s Foundation Model Transparency Index grades major AI systems; none scored above 38 % on political‑bias disclosure.19 As enterprises bake LLMs into search, chat, and content moderation, ideological skew becomes self‑amplifying—bias at the speed of silicon.
In 2020 Google Scholar delisted preprint articles suggesting a lab origin; Wikipedia locked the “COVID‑19 origin” page.20 Three years later mainstream journals conceded viability of the lab‑leak hypothesis—an epistemic U‑turn that cost dissenters careers while Babylon shrugged.
In fact, any attempt to validate the information sourced in this very article through the Google interface will be met with various warnings and community notes at the top of the search results to introduce doubt and to dissuade you from believing it even exists. This is all part of their total information dominance plan to isolate you from the truth and to throw any information that may expose their plan down the memory hole to be dismissed as “conspiracy theory” and ultimately, forgotten.
Information Saturation — Babylon’s Spell
True suppression sparks rebellion; saturation lulls the spirit. Multiple sources all parroting the same information echo identical talking‑points, creating synthetic consensus. Researchers at the University of Sussex call this “cognitive smog,” a haze in which volume, not veracity, dictates believability.21 Babylon thrives by flooding the zone, knowing most citizens lack the margin—or the tools—to sift signal from psych‑ops.
Orwell saw it coming. In 198422 Winston Smith labors in the Ministry of Truth shredding yesterday’s headlines before jolting the pneumatic tube with their “corrected” versions. The technique was not brute deletion but incessant revision—bury reality under ever‑thicker layers of curated factoids until memory itself surrenders. George Orwell was the pen‑name of Eric Arthur Blair, a onetime MI‑6 insider23 who wrote the novel as a kind of encrypted whistle‑blower, warning that the ministries and memory‑holes he had glimpsed were prototypes, not fiction The Party’s slogan—“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past”—echoes every time a search algorithm de‑ranks an inconvenient study or a social‑media platform “expires” a heretical post.
Cognitive smog is digital Newspeak: a vocabulary so swollen with spin and so starved of precision that resistance feels linguistically impossible or too daunting of a task to undertake against such a behemoth. Babylon does not merely muzzle dissent; it stretches reality until discernment fatigues. The Rabshakeh still repeats in every timeline: “Do not let YHWH make you trust in Him!” Babylon seeks your trust over God.
Breaking the Net — A Kingdom Strategy
A Counter‑Strategy for Exiles in the Information Age
Babylon floods the zone, hoping we will drown in data before we drink from truth. The gospel bids us swim upstream. The seven practices below move from mind to marketplace to intercession, forming a spiral of resistance that anyone—with a Bible, a browser, and a Bandwidth of grace—can begin today.
Curate sources prayerfully — Track cross‑spectrum outlets, FOIA documents, scholarly journals, and long‑form podcasts. Verify citations—then verify the verifiers. Scripture is the ultimate meta‑fact‑checker.
Educate locally — Homeschool co‑ops, classical academies, and church‑based trade schools ground learning in community rather than bureaucracy. Teach logic, critical thinking, rhetoric, and theology before cultural marxism warps souls.
Build parallel platforms — Experiment with decentralized search (YaCy, Kagi), federated social networks (Rumble, X, Gab), peer‑reviewed wikis (Everipedia), and mesh‑net projects. Choke‑points shrink when we route around them.
Adopt sovereign tech habits — Self‑host e‑mail, store wealth in hardware wallets, favor indie browsers, encrypt by default, audit open‑source code. Digital sovereignty is modern meekness—strength under cyber‑fire.
Practice digital Sabbath — A weekly log‑off reminds the soul that algorithms make lousy pastors. Solitude unclogs discernment; silence reboots the conscience.
Test the spirits (1 John 4 : 1) — Scripture, shared wisdom, and accountable community guard critical thinking from mutating into cynical suspicion and group-think.
Intercede — Babylon is less a policy problem than a principality problem (Eph 6 : 12). Prayer tunnels under firewalls no hacker can patch.
Conclusion
Belshazzar learned too late that no propaganda ministry can spin a divine audit. Hezekiah trusted a higher broadcast—and the angelic “push notification” ended Assyrian ambitions overnight. Leaks, whistle‑blowers, and providence keep scratching messages onto our digital walls. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8 : 32).
We must always keep in mind that total information dominance belongs to Jesus—the Alpha algorithm and Omega archive—whose kingdom cannot be deplatformed.
Has curated headlines, credentialed teachers, or personalized feeds have discipled you more than the living Word? If so, pray this:
Heavenly Father, I confess I have often outsourced discernment to trending tags and talking heads. I consumed information like fast‑food—cheap, addictive, and numbing. Forgive me for scrolling past the widow and the orphan while doom‑scrolling palace gossip.
I renounce every lie—about my neighbor’s dignity, my nation’s story, my body’s design, my daily bread, and Your sovereignty. Cut ties to algorithms that flatter my ego, magnify my outrage, and shrink my wonder. Plant in me a ravenous hunger for Your Word—truer than fact‑checkers, sharper than zero‑day exploits. Let Scripture tutor my imagination so that I read headlines with resurrection hope, syllabi with prophetic clarity, and code with kingdom ethics. Train my eyes to spot deceit, my lips to speak grace seasoned with salt, and my feet to carry good news where censorship cannot follow. May my home be a lighthouse of hospitality and clear‑headed courage. May my devices become instruments of intercession, not idols of distraction.
Lord Jesus, Faithful Witness, write Your laws on my mind and Your love on my heart. Embolden me to suffer loss—of platforms, profits, or popularity—rather than bow to Babel’s algorithm. Clothe me in the full armor of God; having done all, let me stand. I receive Your forgiveness, Your commissioning, and Your unsilenceable joy. Lead me out of Babylon’s bandwidth into Your marvelous, unfiltered light. In Jesus’s Mighty name, Amen.
Bibliography
Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman, Manufacturing Consent
Edward Bernays, Propaganda
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Jane Mayer, Dark Money
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows
Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism
George Orwell, 1984
Larry Sanger, Essays on Free Knowledge
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Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble
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Scripture References
2 Kings 18 – 19; John 8 : 44; 1 John 4 : 1; Ephesians 6 : 12 – 14; John 8 : 32; Matthew 6 : 34; Psalm 2 : 1‑6; Isaiah 37 : 14‑20; Revelation 19 : 11‑13, Ephesians 6:12, John 8:32
Footnotes
Total Information Dominance: Information Operations Roadmap (2003) – U.S. DoD Archive (PDF)
CIA - Operation Mockingbird https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
Gallup, media trust at record low (2025) https://news.gallup.com/poll/651977/americans-trust-media-remains-trend-low.aspx
Pew Research Center, partisan media‑trust gap (2024) https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/06/10/the-political-gap-in-americans-news-sources/
Harvard Shorenstein Center, News Coverage of Trump’s First 100 Days (2017) https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days/
Reuters, "Amazon suspends Parler hosting" (2021) https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-amazon-suspend-parler-social-network-app-store-web-hosting-service-2021-01-10/.
Reuters, Coutts closes Nigel Farage accounts (2023) https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/nigel-farage-says-set-lose-coutts-account-offered-natwest-one-instead-2023-07-04/
CBC, "Freedom Convoy funds frozen" (2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottawa-protests-1.6353968
The Intercept, "Twitter Files" (2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files.
UCLA, Hollywood Diversity Report (2024) https://socialsciences.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/UCLA-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2024-Film-Streaming-5-23-2024.pdf
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, "Social‑Justice Curricula in U.S. Textbooks" (2025) https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/social-justice-education-has-been-harming-children-it-needs-help-cutting-funds
Brookings Institution, "Campus Unrest Index" (2025) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/democracy-playbook-2025/
Reuters Institute, "Journalism Credentials Report" (2025) https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/research/files/Journalists%2520in%2520the%2520UK.pdf
Church Committee discovers COINTELPRO and SHAMROCK Projects https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm
Epstein & Robertson, "Search‑Engine Manipulation Effect" in PNAS (2023) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1419828112
MIT Media Lab, "Political Bias on Wikipedia" (2025) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3041021.3053375
Facebook, "Responsible Innovation" internal memo (2021, leaked) https://fortune.com/2022/09/09/meta-axes-responsible-innovation-team-downside-to-products/
Google Scholar delisted lab-leak theory https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/9/320
University of Sussex, "Cognitive Smog and Information Saturation" (2024) https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/8194
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty‑Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949).
Eric Arthur Blair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell