HSRP-598

A record of intent shows that a message was designed, not that it built a hive: women's share of cigarette purchases had risen before Bernays's 1929 march, with no visible break at it.

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1. Header

Number
HSRP-598
Category
Civilizational Analysis
Grade
OPEN QUESTION
Status
ACTIVE
Entry form
Full
First entered
Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 027
Last revised
2026-10-13
Register entry
https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-598

2. The claim, in full

A record of intent shows that a message was designed, not that it built a hive: women's share of cigarette purchases had risen before Bernays's 1929 march, with no visible break at it.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHO BUILDS THE HIVE › How to tell design from convergence. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: "not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found". Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W4b-10.

3. What it rests on

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

No source is linked to this observation in the register.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

the march ESTABLISHED as an event; the earlier rise PROBABLE; the march's own effect not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found

The register defines OPEN QUESTION as: Deliberately unresolved, not incomplete: a stated gap the project publishes on purpose, naming a question no study has yet tested and recording a proposed design.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13
BATCH 5 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from OTHER NAMES, WHO BUILDS THE HIVE, WHERE THE EVIDENCE STANDS or WHAT FOLLOWS — wording unchanged except as listed: "Two cautions." → "Two cautions bear on a record of intent." (a bare fragment pointing forward with nothing behind it (rule 3 names this one)). The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

8. Related observations

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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  "grade": "OPEN QUESTION",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "category": "CIV",
  "title": "A record of intent shows that a message was designed, not that it built a hive: women's share of cigarette purchases had risen before Bernays's 1929 march, with no visible break at it.",
  "entry_form": "full",
  "note": "Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHO BUILDS THE HIVE › How to tell design from convergence. THE PAGE'S OWN GRADE LINE READS: \"not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found\". Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W4b-10.",
  "n": 598,
  "ref": "HSRP-598",
  "cited_by": [],
  "related": [
    "HSRP-024",
    "HSRP-414",
    "HSRP-597"
  ],
  "category_name": "Civilizational Analysis",
  "supplement": "027",
  "evidence": [
    {
      "statement": "Two cautions bear on a record of intent. A record of intent shows that a message was designed, not that it built a hive. In 1929 Bernays staged a march of women smoking in New York for a tobacco client, but women's share of cigarette purchases had already risen from 5 percent in 1923 to 12 percent in 1929, and it reached 18.1 percent in 1935, with no visible break at the march [SRC-1121]."
    }
  ],
  "grade_rationale": "the march ESTABLISHED as an event; the earlier rise PROBABLE; the march's own effect not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found",
  "history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-13",
      "event": "BATCH 5 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from OTHER NAMES, WHO BUILDS THE HIVE, WHERE THE EVIDENCE STANDS or WHAT FOLLOWS",
      "reason": "wording unchanged except as listed: \"Two cautions.\" → \"Two cautions bear on a record of intent.\" (a bare fragment pointing forward with nothing behind it (rule 3 names this one)). The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction."
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  ]
}
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