DARPA looking to master propaganda via 'Narrative Networks'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you just dont know whether to laugh, cry or be alarmed when hearing about what the boys in secretive back rooms are doing in the name of antiterrorism, or homeland security, or whatever else they wish to call it. This time it seems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the semi-secret agency charged with coming up with new and cool ways to protect the citizens of the United States from foreign bad guys, wants to hire someone to figure out how vulnerable some people are to narratives (oral stories, speeches, propaganda, books, etc. that cause people to think) and then, supplant such messages with better messages to head off the path that for such people might lead them to becoming a terrorist.