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NLP, fully known as neuro-linguistic programming, are various methods that can affect a person's mental and emotional behavior as well as thought patterns, essentially psychological influence and manipulation. For example there's the handshake interrupt, where you pretend to shake someone's hand, then pull away before contact. Supposedly, this confuses their subconscious, leaving them open to suggestion.. By the use of certain language, body posture, gestures, speech patterns and breathing rate, you can influence someone's behavior patterns, habits, their mental state, the way they act, the way they think and the way they respond. This can all be influenced on a subconscious level, which will, in time, affect them on a conscious level without them even noticing it. When surreptitiously copying your target's behaviour (such as rapport/mirroring) you can eventually stop following and actually start leading, changing and influencing the way they do things. The time this takes will vary depending on whether you want to change surfaces behaviours or deeper, rooted habits that will obviously take a longer period of time to influence change upon.
Memetic warfare is the use of meme's to influence a large group/community/population/most likely even the world to act and behave in certain patterns and manners, Basically NLP on a large-scale. A meme is a sort of imitation unit, it consists of imitating something or someone in a particular manner, by imitating we allow those around us to imitate in the same way, thus, spreading the meme and steering a population in the direction of influence. Meme's are usually acquired and passed on
