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Fear Mongering
Pattern number within this pattern set: 28 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: Fear is a very big motivator, perhaps one of the biggest motivators for human behavior. Since it is such an...
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Silenced Voices
Pattern number within this pattern set: 27 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: Words are powerful, and the stories they make can topple governments. The voices of the oppressed can sometimes...
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Professional Obfuscation
Pattern number within this pattern set: 23 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: The complexities of the world often make reasoning about it very difficult. In many public deliberations it can be...
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Opacity
Pattern number within this pattern set: 11 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: Sometimes information is kept secret from citizens. This is useful when hiding corruption, money laundering, vote...
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Forbidden Knowledge
Pattern number within this pattern set: 10 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: This is the industrial strength version of Compartmentalization of Knowledge anti-pattern. This occurs when knowing...
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Dumbing Down
Pattern number within this pattern set: 9 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: The general population cannot understand complex issues and may even be confused into conflict by certain...
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Distorting History
Pattern number within this pattern set: 8 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: The historical record can be altered by teaching events that did not happen, altering events that did happen, or...
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Semantic Manipulation
Pattern number within this pattern set: 5 Version: 3 Verbiage for pattern card: Certain words, phrases, or ideas become taboo in societies due to their negative definitions. When these definitions...
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Adapting Change
David Hubert CIRAL/CIRAN Problem: Heraclitus of Ephesus wrote that of all the things in the world, "change is the only constant." As time goes on, circumstances beyond controlling will occur and and...
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Civic Intelligence Role Playing Games
Pattern ID: 139 Discussion: Role Playing Games (RPGS) such a Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) combine storytelling with a set of rules that determine the abilities of the players and govern the...
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