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E39: 'The Rape of the Mind' A Look at Psychological Control · The Junto Podcast

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Hello, America. Welcome to the Junto Podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I am your host, Edgar Mills. Thanks for joining.
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Hello, America. Welcome to episode 39 of the Juneteau podcast.
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I appreciate you guys for coming back.
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And I missed Merry Christmas. The last podcast, I said I'm going to save all
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my Merry Christmases because we're going to do another episode.
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And then guess what? Yep. Oiger got the flu.
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So anyway, now I'm back.
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So, I came across this book a while back, and it's very interesting,
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and it's very timely, and it's disturbingly accurate to today's standards,
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and I think it's a reading essential.
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And the book is called The Rape of the Mind, The Psychology of Thought Control,
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Menticide, and Brainwashing.
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And this book was published in 1956 by a Dutch author, Joost Meerloo, a doctor.
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And he came to prominence. He was a Dutch-American psychiatrist,
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psychoanalyst, and whatnot.
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And his expertise was all in the brainwashing and psychological manipulation.
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He was born in the Netherlands, and he served as a psychoanalyst during the
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Nazi occupation of Holland.
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And he treated many victims of torture, psychological torture and stuff like that.
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And post-war, he became the chief of the psychological department for the Netherlands
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Armed Forces. and he became an expert witness in U.S.
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Cases of brainwashing, chorus confessions, and things like that.
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He knew a lot about the science of manipulating the mind.
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In the title, menticide, right? That was a new word on me.
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Excuse me. Pardon me if I'm coughing throughout this thing. I felt compelled
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to get an episode out, and I'm not 100% yet.
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But he coined the term menticide, and that is defined as the systematic destruction
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of the will and the spirit, the human spirit, through psychological manipulation.
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And so this book kind of breaks that down, analyzes how...
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Well, it is from a perspective now. Mind you, this was published in 1956,
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and it was written off of just a wealth of experience based on World War II
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actions by the Nazis and whatnot.
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And so the book kind of analyzes how totalitarian regimes, but not just totalitarian
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regimes, but other more subtle influences within more,
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finger quote, democratic societies, how they manipulate through things like
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advertising and media and bureaucracy and coercion and propaganda and all the things,
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all the conditioning, all the things that our governments and our media does
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on a daily basis in order to control individuals there and then ultimately control the masses.
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So we're going to break it down in a couple of sections here.
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And the first one we're going to talk about is techniques on how to submit individuals
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psychologically, right? How to break down the individual.
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So how is it possible that these
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authoritarian regimes are able to
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extract confessions out of
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people that did not do
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anything right that they had nothing to confess yet somehow they're able to
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extract confessions out of well
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they do it by deleting the personal the individual deeper will to resist.
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Yeah. So we mentioned the word menticide here,
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and it's an organized way to weaken a person's will and ego and eventually defeating
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the individual into whatever submission, whatever it is,
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whatever they suggest beyond that.
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Because anything wants to pin down, then anything happens.
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They're subject to anything, right? But there is a process, and we'll go into it.
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So, and it's a very, well, it's meticulous on the perpetrator's end.
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And it starts with breaking a person down and deconditioning the person from
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what they previously knew, right?
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And they do this via isolation or sleep and food deprivation or sensory overload
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or sensory denial, even,
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or personal humiliation or with extreme accusations.
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And all of these things, good people, all of these things sound very familiar
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to men and women who have experienced Army Seer School.
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Yeah, these are all things that they hit on these things in Seer School.
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And yes, it's a controlled environment, thank goodness. But even in the controlled environment,
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even knowing that Seer School is a school and will be over soon,
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it still has some pretty profound effects that along with some open hand smacks
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from some pretty brutal dudes that stuff is exhausting man and it creates weaknesses
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and it creates a vulnerability,
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and it chips away and over time.
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Your mental resilience, you can't, you not, nevermind physical comfort.
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Now you're starting to look for some kind of mental comfort,
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some psychological comfort and this can different ways.
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But like, for instance, you know, you see on TV all the time and,
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and this happened in serious school as well as, is,
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you know, these interrogations under the direct, you know, bright light,
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the lights right in your face, you know, and they're, and they ask you same
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questions over and over.
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Then they change it up a little bit and then they go back to the same question.
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Excuse me. You know, that gets, that can get, that can wear away at you.
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Just the harshness of light in your, just the harshness of light in your eyes
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can be very taxing on you.
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Or yeah, my favorite in yours, the box, right?
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The little, the little small box, they stuff you in there.
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And you're isolated, and you're confined, and you get nothing but a little dog bowl of water.
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And now, most guys, I would imagine, when they were in the box in seer school,
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they used that for sleepy time, because that's what I did.
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But you're also in there long enough that you have to piss yourself.
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There's no, and you don't get to get up and stretch your legs and things.
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It was very, yeah, it was horrible, and I could see how over time that that
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would be a very horrible thing.
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And you might start negotiating with yourself on, okay, I'll tell them this
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or I'll agree to this just to get out of here.
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But in any of these positions, when you're captive or something like that, man, you're powerless.
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There's just nothing you can do about it. And so, you know, now it's you and your will.
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And what are you, what must you protect versus what can you give up versus what
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can you withhold and how much are you willing to withhold.
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Crazy. Seer school was awesome, by the way.
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I think most people will tell you that, that it's one of the better,
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better courses in the military.
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I apologize for all this coughing. It's unprofessional, I know.
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So the breakdown and deconditioning. That's one part of it.
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And then it goes into submission or even where you might even start to identify
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with your captor or your tormentor.
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And this pressure that you get during the breakdown phase, whether it's constant
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pain and agony and torture and just weirdness, and it creates this...
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Well, things start to get very hazy, right?
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And your conscious control becomes very, very fluid. And you get in this weird
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sort of hypnotic, like dreamy state of being that's driven by fear.
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When I say dreamy, I don't mean rainbows and unicorns. I mean,
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like very, very real fear behind that.
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But you know it's now
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you're you're dehydrated you know what i'm saying and you're hungry and
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you're just trying to avoid further discomfort
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and and then at some point that feeling you know they start to exploit our sort
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of innate need for relief you know we need some relief somewhere,
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so you start to absorb the their
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and internalize their narrative the interrogator's
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narrative right because they're not just asking you questions they're they're
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they're posing things they're and it might be ideological and it might be you
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know political there might be a lot of things going on but at some point you're
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starting to like okay i see what the guy's saying,
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Now you're negotiating with yourself, right?
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You're like, okay, I see where he's coming from.
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And now you're starting to negotiate with like your own, well, are we really...
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Are we really the bad guys? Well, maybe we were wrong in this or that or the other.
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And so now you're starting to submit and then even, maybe even, identify a little bit.
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And that's where they want you. Because what comes after the submission?
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Yeah, the re-education or the reconditioning, right?
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So now the indoctrination process.
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Of what they want. They want you to believe and what they want you to say.
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And now you've rationalized and not only rationalized it, but now you've embraced,
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yeah, the tormentors sort of ideology.
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And now you confess to shit that they've just made up crimes or made up motives.
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And then you make these, you regurgitate these false statements or these false
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narratives, and this is your way of your psychological escape,
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right, of getting away from the pain.
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And you're not really, you're no longer concerned about what you're saying.
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You're concerned about is the pain going to stop or is the discomfort going to stop?
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Saying this makes this happen. Okay.
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Whether you truly and deeply identify with the narrative or not,
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you've made up in your mind, like, okay, well, if I say this,
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then I'll get a piece of bread.
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And then that's it. You're good with that.
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So they break you down, right?
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Break you down and decondition you until a point of submission and breaking,
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right? Where you do break.
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And now you do, you are now pliable, maybe even identify.
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And then they recondition and
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reeducate you and re-indoctrinate you with what they want in your brain.
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And that's how it works. And keep in mind, we're talking about individuals here,
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but that's all very scalable, right, with different techniques, and we'll get to them.
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Excuse me again.
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Now, never mind recovery, right? At post, never mind recovery.
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We're just talking about how they do these things.
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You may not be locked into that state of existence, or you may be.
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Who knows? It's all very situational, I would say.
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But Miraloo compares these techniques
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that they use for this breakdown and submission and reconditioning to,
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like, Pavlonian conditions, right?
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Where a repetitive you know a sound or statement or something it creates an
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automatic response right,
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and then and that could be you could now i
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don't i'm not an expert on these things but we saw that we see that in movies
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where they're like where you got like a sleeper assassin right and then they
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hear some some phrase and then that that sort of triggers a response to go you
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know murder somebody or whatever.
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But that can be done. It merely proves that that can be done. It has been done.
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And there's plenty of cases. I didn't do any case studies here.
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I looked over several, but there's plenty of case studies throughout the various
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wars, and even in currently throughout communist countries, even today,
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still using these very, I want to say barbaric techniques they're not barbaric
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they're very refined techniques but it's kind of barbarian and,
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to use such techniques for such things, but that's still going on today.
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Yeah. In communist countries, especially I kept, I mentioned Seer school because
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this is one of the things, well, I was, I found this book doing some study for Seer type things.
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The harsh reality is that even the
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toughest, hardest, manliest operator of operators has a breaking point.
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And it's not to do with intellect.
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It's probably more to do with strong moral foundation than anything.
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But even then, you can be broken, even if it's with some kind of medication or drugs or whatnot.
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If you're a captive and they want to break you, they will break you.
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That's all there is to it.
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I guess if there's anybody out there that disagrees with that,
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you know, give me a holler and tell me why.
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And if you think you're the guy that cannot be broken, I mean,
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by all means, tell me what experience and why.
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Now, keep referring to Sears School. It was great. It was unique. It was awesome.
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And I've often wondered, like, would I do it again?
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And yes is the answer, but would it be the same?
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I don't know. I guess if If I did the same course over again,
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it probably wouldn't have the same exact impact, but I would do a seer types course again,
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despite the discomfort and you can't discount the discomfort,
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but here's the fact of the matter.
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And most SFE type guys will tell you the same thing. Like it's going to be,
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you know, it's going to be over.
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I mean, seer school is only, I don't know, a couple of weeks long,
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three weeks long or something.
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It's going to be over sooner or later. You're not there indefinitely, right?
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And even though you may or may not know what day it is, and you may or may not
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know how much time you have left at the resistance training lab or wherever,
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you know, in the moment, it still kind of sucks.
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Yeah. In the moment, it still kind of sucks. And, yeah, you can fight through it.
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They might slap you around a little more. They might dunk you in the water a little more.
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There might be some stuff going on, but just all you got to do is stick with it, man.
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And you'll get through it and you will have learned a lot of valuable lessons.
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Whereas in real life, as a real life POW, who knows, man? Golly.
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Yeah. That's got to be tough. But even the hardest are going to break. Yeah. Even the hardest.
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All right. So that was just individual submission, right? We're talking about
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how to break the individual down. What about techniques for mass submission?
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I said, I said all of that stuff is scalable with various techniques.
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And I mean, up to entire populations. Yeah. And we've, and we've seen it.
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I mean, good people, you've seen it, whether you think you have or not.
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Partisan propaganda We see it every day On the socials Fear mongering We see
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it every day On the socials Cultural conditioning We see it every single day
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On the socials On TV On everything This This.
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Function of control, the scaled up control, it starts with little things like
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stifling free speech and free thinking in just subtle ways, right?
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And I'll give you an example.
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You can say what you want, but hate speech is not a thing.
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Yes, you can say hateful speech, yes, but to have a legal label as hate speech,
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which means you can be punished more for saying this, but not punished at all
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for saying something else. It's ridiculous.
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And that's a way to stifle speech and to shape thinking and then to isolate
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and categorize the masses into easily controlled subgroups.
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And the whole goal of that is over time to turn free-thinking individuals into
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NPCs, you know, obedient to their narrowly defined group, whatever that is,
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whatever has been defined for you.
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So let's look at some of these techniques.
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Everybody loves to say psyop. Everything's a psyop, psyop, psyop,
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psyop. That's a cool word.
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Psychological warfare. That's a cool word. It's cool. And that shit goes on constantly.
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AKA propaganda. They use propaganda, right? So here's another word I learned. Verbocracy.
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Yeah. Propagandistic lies. Catchy phrases.
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So here's another one. Verbocracy was a new word I learned. And then label-o-mania. Yeah, label-o-mania.
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That's an obsessive assigning of labels to hammer simplistic ideas into our brains.
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Now, I've said this before And I'll say it again Because it applies I can remember
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in the 80s In the 80s into the 90s And this was when I graduated high school in 1990,
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So from the mid-80s up until the, you know Mid-90s, early 90s anyway,
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Nobody wanted to be labeled Yeah, nobody wanted to be labeled Nobody wanted
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to be put into a box Everybody's like, look And don't label me You know,
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don't don't call me this or that because I I'm my individual.
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I do what I want the way I want And I might cross over three or four labels,
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but you know i'm saying And that was a very much a real thing. I remember that and then.
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2000s into the mid-2000s, the 2010s.
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And here we are at 2025. There's a label for everything, folks. It's insane.
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It's insane. There's a label for every category, subcategory, sub subcategory.
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And here's what happens when you label people like that, or especially if you
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apply those to yourself.
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And I always pick on the transgender people when I'm talking about this,
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because they love to be labeled and you got all these, these pronouns and whatnot.
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At some point, you're going to label yourself out of a, it's going to naturally,
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you're going to eventually cycle all the way back around until it's individual,
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until you're back to just being an individual.
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You're not going to have anybody else that matches your stack of labels.
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And then it's just, now you're just back to yourself again.
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And I think ultimately the problem is, do you like yourself?
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Do you like the labels that you put on yourself? If not, just don't do it.
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But certainly don't put them on other people.
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But label-o-mania, yeah, I like that. I'm going to start using that a lot.
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Obsessive assigning of labels.
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So once you divide up all these stereotypical groups, they become easily conquered.
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Yeah, because it's easier to target. When you got your little groups divided
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and subdivided, then it's very easy to target them with a certain messaging.
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Then they get in that little, it becomes a little echo chamber.
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And then, ultimately, from the nefarious groups, words like freedom or patriot
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or even man and woman get twisted.
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They get twisted into these emotional, semantic friggin' landmines.
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And you're not, well, if you say this, it triggers somebody.
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And now you're creating this goddang hissy fit from somebody because you said
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the word patriot or something. or you call it somebody man or woman when they
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believe there to be something else.
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And the repetition of these labels and these symbols or these various slogans,
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they narrow our options of how we react or how we choose to feel about a thing.
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And then all that does is reinforce conformity.
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And I talked about that during the punk rock episode, right?
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Be an individual. Do not conform.
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Find what fits you and conform only to what you choose.
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I refer you to the book 1984. Orwell wrote, they came up with a new way,
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they called it Newspeak.
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And it was a fictional language developed by the regime, Newspeak.
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The sole purpose of that, right, was to limit the range of thought, right?
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Minimalize the number of words available, making it impossible for people to
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conceive of complex ideas that challenge party ideology. New speak.
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And we've seen that, folks. We've seen that. That's going on.
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And by controlling language, the party aims to control minds,
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right? If you control one, you can control the other.
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And then in the book, right, they had thought crime and any dissenting thought
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was quite literally unthinkable. It was illegal.
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And then you had kids ratting out parents for thinking out loud.
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But I'll give you two opposite examples of the same tactic in modern day.
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And I'll probably, I don't know, I might get some heat from it. I hope I do.
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One example is a lot of people,
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especially conservative, like Republican types, they moan and groan about the
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absence of the Pledge of Allegiance in the schools.
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Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
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which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.
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That seems innocuous enough, right? But you got segments of American society
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right now who, well, they've identified the flag as some kind of weird trigger,
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right-wing dog whistle,
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something, something, something. I don't know what.
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So those people get very, very, very irate about the possibility of the Pledge
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of Allegiance being chanted every morning.
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Now, when I was in school, yeah, it was every single morning. I remember it.
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Is there something fundamentally wrong with that? I don't know.
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What about, What about the rainbow LGBTQ plus flag slapped all over every free
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space to include elementary schools?
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Is that okay? We can't pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag, the country that we live in.
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But we have to have that flag up everywhere that doesn't even represent.
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It doesn't represent America. It simply represents a small segment of America.
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And then only in a way to say, hey, this is our sexual identification.
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People get very up in arms. There's some kids that peeled out with their big,
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they're like diesel trucks, and they burned tire marks on a crosswalk.
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I can't remember what state But there But it was like a rainbow crosswalk So they just peeled out.
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I think they got charged with some kind of hate crime. Now, any other crosswalk
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in the city, they would have got a ticket for, I guess, I don't know what,
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drag racing or something.
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But instead, they get like a felony hate crime charge for doing it on a rainbow crosswalk.
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Is that warranted?
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Who decided that that's hate speech? and who decided that we should put rainbow
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flags all over the crosswalks everywhere.
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Now, I got news for you. At the corner of, I want to say, Juniper and Tenth
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Street in Midtown Atlanta, the whole four-way, there's rainbows all the way around.
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And guess what? Midtown is probably, I would venture to say,
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I don't know what the demographic is color-wise, But I know it's probably 90% gay.
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And so if there was some kind of little neighborhood council that voted on that,
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and it was unanimous, whatever, man, I guess.
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Now, the question is, are those city or state streets? And did the city and
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state vote on it? You know, there's lots of stuff going on.
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So what people take for granted on one end, then they argue on the other end.
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Would the same be true if we had U.S. flag crosswalks and somebody was burning
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out, burning rubber on them?
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Would everybody want us to have to say allegiance to a flag if it wasn't the
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American flag and it was the rainbow flag?
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Yeah. Those might be imbalanced. I thought they were pretty similar.
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I thought they were worthy of comparison.
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All right. I got off track that we talked about propaganda and psychological
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warfare and then, and what else, man?
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Well, here's, here's a, here's a good one is the weaponization of fear is what
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the government loves to do.
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And then as an extension of the government, the, the mainstream media loves to do.
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All right. And I'll use the example in the, in the forties and fifties after
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world war two, there was a thing in back. They, it was a thing, spy mania.
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Mirlou, he throws actual labels on here that sound right.
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They make sense, right? Labelomania, spy mania.
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Well, during the 40s and 50s, everybody remembers McCarthy, and everybody remembers
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the Red Scare and all that.
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Everybody thought there was Russians planted everywhere.
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And this went on man through the 50s into
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the 60s to hell even into the 70s
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man and but early in that you know they it was criminal right they were rounding
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up you remember in hollywood you know they named names there was a list you
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know they they blacklisted a lot of actors that were sympathized commie sympathizers
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and you got to wonder why would you be a commie sympathizer,
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Well, the communists are very good at propaganda, and they're very good at this game.
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But nobody who promotes communism has ever had to live under it, I can promise you that.
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But they criminalized dissent back in those days. Well, what about these days?
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Does Trump look into him up people who are critical of his regime?
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Some of you say, hell yeah, he does, right? Unfairly. He uses the Justice Department.
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Well, did Biden use his Justice Department?
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There are people from January 6th who are still in jail.
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Keep that in mind. And all this I point out, this left and right stuff and this U.S.
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Flag and rainbow flag, this Trump and Biden business.
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This is all to point out that it happens on both sides.
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And both sides will happily and readily use techniques to control you. Yeah.
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And then there's another technique called fractionalized fear.
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And this is
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what merely described as sporadic
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seemingly random short burst
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terror events that disrupts our rational
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thought and our daily discourse but it's short burst now folks how do we see
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this do we see this yeah we see it every time there's a god dang shooting a
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school shooting Every time there's whatever you want to call terrorist event,
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that's what that is.
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That's fractionalized fear building.
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And you're like, well, that stuff's random. No, it's not. I don't believe it is.
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So they will lead you to
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believe that the unpredictability of
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these events and just the sheer illogic of these events will keep us off balance
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and keep us on guard and keep us needing to be protected and keep us off balance
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and unable to see things for what they are rationally,
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to put actual evidence together that makes sense and is supported and to draw
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conclusions based on verifiable fact.
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Believe that logic can't fight the pure madness and the pure evil of these of these random events,
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well i beg to differ all right weaponized fear so we had psychological warfare
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and we had weaponized fear which is also psychological warfare i guess and then
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and then uh and then another technique,
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right, that the government loves to use is sort of cultural conditioning, right?
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These social projects and even technological conditioning.
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Conformity starts very young in life, folks.
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Yeah. Even in your own home with rigid parenting, right?
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Parents want you to conform so that you can be manageable on daily life.
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And then you go off to public school.
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What is public school but one giant conformity factory?
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How many of you can honestly and openly say, yes,
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our public school pushes creativity in such a way that we have sent children
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forward to become adults who do X, Y, and Z? Thank you.
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I don't think so. Public school just primes us for control. That's what it does.
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You get up with the bell, you sit down with the bell.
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Teacher tells you a thing, you regurgitate the thing. Bell rings,
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get up, go to the next class. Teacher tells you a thing, you regurgitate the thing.
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And then we got technology that overloads our senses, especially the phones.
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I'm going to encourage you good
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people, keep your children off of the devices for as long as possible.
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All right. A video game is one thing, but free access to social media and the
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Internet is just completely wrong answer.
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There's so much madness out there.
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But eventually, what does it do, though? We get we get addicted to it.
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It overloads our senses. Then we get we get lazy.
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Everything on social media encourages shallowness, instant gratification and
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then move on. Attention spans are at an all-time low.
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Is we're just turning into consumers of prefabricated answers,
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and we don't have any skill of self-reflection or any analytical,
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critical analytical skill.
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We're looking for the answer straight in front of us right now.
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Yeah, we learn in school, we learn how to follow instructions to a central authority
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and how to move on with the bell, how to regurgitate correct answers.
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And worse yet, how to conform to the informal cliques that build inside of schools,
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inside of these public schools.
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I bet you could almost take the day in the life of a typical elementary school. No, no, no, no, no.
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A day in the life of a typical high school and probably compare it to the day
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in the life of a typical prison and be able to draw so many similarities.
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I bet. I would love to see that study. I'm not smart enough to do that study,
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but I would love to see it.
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A comparison, a direct day-to-day comparison. The day in the life of a high
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school, day in the life of a prison.
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Yeah, man. Because there's internal cliques in school, right?
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This is where your kid really learns to deal with humiliation or be the humiliator.
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Just to fit in. I'm going to give you a quote here.
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And this quote says, give us a child for eight years and I'll give you a Bolshevik forever.
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Now, it's questionable whether or not that was spoken by Vladimir Lenin or not.
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Attributed to him, but it's about right.
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The juice of that is all it takes as a kid in his formative years to plant the
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seeds and plant the blueprint to be whatever it is you want them to be in that time.
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Not teaching them how to be what they want to be, teaching them to be what you want them to be.
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Nazi and communist manipulation of mass
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media has become a playbook
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for modern American culture and politics 100% has
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and that's a damn shame it's effective
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right we know the Nazis were effective for a
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while the communists are clearly effective because they still linger around
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like a like a flu they still linger they don't they don't ever completely go
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away just lay dormant until some uninformed teenager goes, oh, Che Guevara.
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These techniques that were used by the Nazis and the communists that are currently
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used by Western politicians all across the world.
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Modernized politics, they're antithetical to the Constitutional Republic, folks.
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Yeah, they're antithetical to the Constitutional Republic. The United States
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is a Constitutional Republic.
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And these techniques, they pose questions that they're the only ones with the answer. You see?
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And they only pose the questions, and they only allow you to answer the questions
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that they have an answer for. And contrary to the Constitutional Republic,
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they challenge your individual worth and value.
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You're just a piece in a bigger machine as far as that goes.
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They shrink the human
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identity and then and the complexities of an
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individual and our doubts
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and aspirations and and all these things they they
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shrink all that down to to make
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it look like frivolous nuance you know like that that's just it's selfish frivolity
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you you need to get up and perform your duty as a piece of the machine and whatever
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duty it is that they've assigned you.
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All right. So we talked about...
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Individual submission, talked about techniques for mass submission.
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Now I'm going to talk about some of this subtle, unobtrusive coercion,
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some of this stuff that's closer, like really closer to home.
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Maybe not even totalitarian, you know, or authoritarian, but shady and subversive,
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mind control stuff in daily life.
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And the fact that these things are happening are evidence that pure democracies
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are not concerned with your autonomy whatsoever.
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Pure democracy only aims to get 51% on board.
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They can manipulate 51%, no problem.
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So Merlue calls mental contagion a virus,
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delivered via advertising, education, and bureaucracy,
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where subtle exploitation preys on needs like belonging and consistency So this,
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I talked about this stuff in the cultural conditioning, and this is where the
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cultural stuff comes in. It's subtle, right? But it's there.
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Our our internal needs so all right a few a few things i'll talk about in this is one look,
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in society today so i don't i don't care it could have been the 1800s or 1900s or 2020s,
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raising kids is tough they're social you're as a parent it seems like nobody's
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on your side it It seems like everyone's against you,
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and you're battling against a system, whatever system it is,
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the school system, the hospital system,
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the church system.
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But parenting itself is early conditioning. But here's the news, folks.
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As parents, we, and only we as parents, have the right to condition our children
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in our image or hopefully to be better than we were. Yeah?
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Who else has the right to do that? And you're like, oh, the child has an autonomous
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right. Well, that is not altogether true.
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Now, whatever the age of majority is, you know, some say 18 is an arbitrary number.
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But at some point, yeah, the child becomes an autonomous adult,
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and they can sign contracts and make big boy and big girl decisions.
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But, you know, the legal system wants to make everything nice and easy.
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Well, convoluted, that only lawyers can read it.
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But maturity isn't necessarily decided by that age, is it?
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So let's say a child of 14 who may be a super genius and in almost every other
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way, you know, mature and capable of carrying on daily life basically alone.
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Should they be able to? Well, as the legal system as it is now, the answer is no.
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Right? 18 is when kids can move off and do their thing. And there's a few exceptions to that.
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So yeah, parenting is early conditioning.
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We have a right, I believe, as parents, and not only a right,
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but a duty to raise our kids to be what we know to be, good,
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and with a good and proper model.
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Now, there's plenty of parents out there who are pieces of shit.
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And then they're just perfectly happy raising their kids to be pieces of shit. And that's a damn shame.
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Does the state have a right to step in on that?
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Does a teacher have a right to step in on that?
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Well, if there's abuse, right? If there's obvious signs of abuse,
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physical abuse or neglect, then that's one thing.
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But now we're starting to get in the murky areas there.
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So at any rate, raising kids alone as parents, we are conditioning our kids.
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Your responsibility as a parent is to condition them to be not just productive
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as a piece of a machinery but productive as to be healthy physically healthy and mentally healthy,
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and a free thinker and a critical thinker and to understand things that are
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unhealthy and why they're unhealthy and to give them love and to give them support
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and to chastise them as needed.
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Not via abuse, but by.
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Some parents feel like if they talk to their child with an even tone,
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sort of on the same level, that that is somehow taking away their authority.
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And it's not. You can talk to your child on a lower level that they can understand.
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Fuck, I'm going into a parenting thing here too much.
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That's a whole other episode. That's a whole other episode. Sorry about that. Raising kids.
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Raise your kids to be responsible, folks. Let them be happy.
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Help them be happy. Yeah, that's it.
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Try to keep them out of these institutional... Damn, excuse me.
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Try to keep them out of these institutionalized cultures.
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Now, that being said, is organized sports an institutional culture?
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Yes, it is. It's conditioning in itself, isn't it?
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Well, there's mental toughness being built there, and there's physical toughness being built. and.
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Bad habits from some foul-mouthed kids on the team. They might get in a couple
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of scuffles here and there.
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I'm not saying organized sports is bad, and I'm not saying every school is bad.
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I'm saying be mindful of this institutionalization.
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Let your kid be an individual. All right, that's enough of that. All right.
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Damn, raising kids, that's a tough one. otherwise the system here's what i'm
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getting at ultimately if you don't raise your kids and you don't participate
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the institution will do it for you then you'll just get what you get if they're
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pledging allegiance to the rainbow flag every morning that's what you get and if you haven't.
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Participated then then what who are you just you know
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you see what i mean know what's going on your kids life all
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right moving on it just
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one of these some unobtrusive coercion
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it kind of is obtrusive this mob
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mentality this this mass mental delusion
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that goes on yeah and it spreads
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like virus and it sparks primitive behavior
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and frenzies and riots and even
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looting somehow you know what I mean over I
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don't know over a drugged out junkie
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getting killed by a cop and it sparks this mass delusion like a virus and it
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sparks primitive behavior and frenzies and riots and somehow looting or this
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this this mass delusion of the.
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Arrangement syndrome, for instance. All things Trump is bad and evil and sparks
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primitive behavior and frenzies and riots and somehow looting.
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Be an individual thinker, folks. I don't care for Donald Trump.
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I think he's a clown. I think he's done some measurably good things.
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But he's done a lot of suspect things. I don't think he's a friend to the 2A community.
47:20
I don't think he's a friend at all to the 2A community. I don't think,
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if you were going to really define Democrat and Republican, I don't think he's a Republican.
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I think he spent an entire life being a Democrat and then ran as a Republican.
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I don't know. There's stuff like that. But if there's one thing that Donald
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Trump does, though, is he sparks mob mentality, primitive behaviors,
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frenzies, riots, and somehow looting.
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It's it's too easy it was
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a take man let's say you do a political rally for whichever side it doesn't
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even matter you get a few hundred people in one space you hire i don't know
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i'm just saying five paid agitators five people to mingle about and stir the pot and,
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thing you know, you got frenzies, riots, and somehow looting.
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Think individually. Act individually. Do your own critical thinking.
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If it doesn't make sense, you know, people are hating, this is something new.
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Nicki Minaj, who I don't care for Nicki Minaj,
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but she came out because she believes that in Nigeria that the kind of mass
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murder of Christians is probably a bad thing.
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And she thinks that it's good that Donald Trump is taking action to try to mitigate that.
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That's created a frigging shitstorm.
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And it's controversy, and it's all over the TV and the frigging socials.
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And somehow she is now, you know, not, I'm sure half of America is like, great, awesome.
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And then the other half is like burner at the stake. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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Crazy that Trump has that kind of effect because she's simply supporting a thing
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that he, he is supporting, which is, you know,
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targeting, I guess, these Muslim extremists who are running around village to
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village, you know, hacking up Christians.
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But for, I guess for most of America, that's okay.
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I mean, it is the Christian, the Christian population is the only population that is okay.
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To be murdered and decimated. But I'm kind of surprised though,
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because now you have a color component, right?
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Obviously in Nigeria, it's black Christians.
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So you would think like the liberal side of America would care a little more about that, I guess.
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But they don't because Christianity, I guess, supersedes race.
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So Christianity is the number one target as evil, oppressive and whatever, I guess.
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Man, I'm being a little salty on that. I just think it's interesting.
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All right, we talked about raising kids a little bit. Mob mentality.
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Yeah, think for yourself, folks.
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Don't be out there going into frenzies, riots, and don't go loot.
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Mass media and technology that's what it's all about mass media technology
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that's the way of the future information overload echo
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chambers right ai attention whores all these things these things breed breed
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apathy folks and indifference and on the other end of that even radicalization sometimes.
51:03
I'm willing to bet right now, out there on the interwebs somewhere,
51:09
there is some kind of AI-powered bot thing that is radicalizing Muslims,
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like going on, you know, like some kind of cartoon or some kind of,
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you know, something. And I'm just saying, I'm just using that.
51:26
There's probably also some kind of AI platform, bot,
51:32
something or another that's out there sexualizing minors and making it feel
51:38
okay to keep secrets from your parents and letting grownups touch you and stuff like that.
51:48
There's probably all kinds of weird shit like that out there but
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i got news for you technology it isn't
51:55
the root cause of any of these issues but it but it damn sure is a supercharger
52:04
right like a hot rod supercharger for this mental contagion that spreads these these these,
52:14
virus-like vibes through all its various millions of channels yeah the technology
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is just a supercharger mirlu so i like this and again this book was written.
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Well published in 56 1956 but i like a comparison that mirlu makes and he compares
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modern technology Now, mind you, modern technology in the 50s.
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To primitive magic. And I love it.
52:51
And he parallels the ancient rituals,
52:55
like these trance-inducing dances and things like that, to technical habits
53:03
and our gadgets and our screens,
53:07
and that we have replaced amulets and idols with our devices.
53:13
And that this magic from our devices, hypnotizes people via nonstop stimulation,
53:22
daily, hourly, constant doses of whatever, noise, clips,
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soundbites, memes, music, fear, porn, fake hype, all the stuff.
53:41
It's hour on hour. It's minute by minute.
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It's all out there, and it's like a trance. Yeah.
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And that's a brilliant comparison made in 1956.
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Because I don't think Miralou could see it.
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I don't think he could see into the future, but he wasn't a dumb guy.
54:07
So, look, technology is good. I think having all the information at our fingertips is good.
54:13
But it can overload our senses, folks, and it can create like a freaking zombie-like
54:21
state of being on our screens.
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It just kills our critical thinking skills.
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Man, I'm so sorry, man. I was coughing.
54:36
Technology to primitive magic yeah that's awesome
54:39
i thought that was a good i thought it was apt and and i like
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it the comparison the technology
54:46
can amplify our delusions right we get into
54:49
these echo chambers and all we see is is
54:52
trump bad or all we see is porn or all we see is whatever
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it is we're looking at video games and it
54:59
kind of probably chips away a little bit at our reality check right you hear
55:05
what your your echo chamber your mob wants you to hear and you don't hear any
55:11
critical or opposing views in your own echo chambers right all you hear is a version of,
55:19
what you think the opposition thinks you just hear the synthesized version you
55:25
don't hear the raw version and.
55:29
Compartmentalized thinking and you have your own rigid ideas and the other guy's
55:34
stupid and you're smart and your ideas become sort of unchangeable.
55:40
Like now you're, you're not a free thinker anymore. Now you're not even open to new ideas.
55:44
And this creates this mass psychosis folks. And then you're,
55:48
there you are, there you are, mob mentality.
55:51
You got to have, and you got to be around places. you
55:55
got to be in pages or on pages or social medias
55:58
where where you have open and free exchange of ideas folks otherwise it's just
56:05
a just a pat you on pat yourself on the back machine and that's dangerous that's
56:11
dangerous damn and then i guess
56:15
on the deep end here now this guy was a psychologist And on the deep end,
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we can go and have some kind of psychological regression.
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Miralou says that technology erodes what he called verifiable reality.
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Verifiable reality. And it warps our reality and it changes it.
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And then we lose our, again, like we said a minute ago, our reality checks.
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And then we get this passive, what he called passive peeping contagion.
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You're always looking at the screen and you're, and it's, and again,
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hypnotizing, but like you're looking at the screen and you're hypnotized,
56:55
but also across the world, there's also, you know,
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a million other people looking at the same screen, hypnotized by the same thing you are.
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And it will kind of bypass your own individual psyche and how you just get into this rut, right?
57:13
And you don't have enough variety in your life. You don't have enough nuance in your life now.
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You're just reading or looking at what's there given to you.
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And you're submitting to whatever that is.
57:25
That's that subtle coercion, folks. Unobtrusive.
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Well, it's obtrusive, but subtle obtrusive coercion. It's getting in there.
57:36
And it ain't blunt force. It's slow, slowly contaminating our brain,
57:42
exploiting us, and then ultimately captivating our brains.
57:46
And then we're subject to whatever.
57:49
So that's past the breakdown phase, right? We talked about breaking down.
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And then we're at the submission. And now, once we've completely submitted,
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they can re-educate as they choose.
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The paradox of technology is that it has brought the world up to such a high standard of living.
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And it empowers us in so many ways.
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I mean, here I am right now on the Internet sharing a podcast,
58:19
sharing my thoughts that I know at least eight or ten of you will listen to.
58:23
But the same technology can enslave us like
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addiction and you
58:30
can be addicted to a lot of things not just technology this is just
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made technology makes it easy hell gambling
58:36
online is an addiction gambling in real
58:38
life is addiction but hell now i can sit in my basement and gamble online if
58:42
i want to games games and ai ai especially but when you're an immersive game
58:51
You have essentially godlike control over the world around you, right?
59:00
Inside your brain. I mean, when you're healthy, I'm so sorry.
59:08
When you're healthy, when you're healthy, you can differentiate.
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I'm in a game and I'm playing this game. Yes, I have God-like power,
59:16
but you're not getting any of that dopamine from that God-like power.
59:19
But when you get fully immersed, right, and you're all in there and that becomes your life.
59:25
Now when you exert these god-like powers
59:29
over your world and it's having
59:32
very real effects on your brain you see
59:35
what i mean and and you can see how that can
59:38
become addictive but the
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reality is we're in there thinking we're god and we're stunting
59:45
our own our own growth or our physical
59:48
literal growth and all that stuff is
59:51
dangerous it overloads our senses folks it erodes our
59:53
focus we start to ignore like
59:57
normal physical play physical fitness we
1:00:01
start to lose creativity because all the creativity we receive we get from inside
1:00:05
a game or system or computer and we soak in the social platforms man and we
1:00:11
take in we ingest all these instant answers and instant images and videos and
1:00:18
we skip the real, the real stuff,
1:00:21
the hike in the mountains to standing on an actual mountain peak, right?
1:00:26
The natural dialogue that you have with another human being.
1:00:29
I don't care if it's at a pub or at a bookstore or at the range or whatever.
1:00:35
It steals your time and it steals your person. It steals from you.
1:00:41
Be wary of the technology, folks.
1:00:43
Treat it. Treat it like a weapon. and it's dangerous to treat it with respect, right?
1:00:50
Wield it responsibly. Okay, folks, it's been gloom and doom, gloom and doom.
1:00:57
But can we defend against these things? Yeah.
1:01:01
Mass manipulation, more difficult to defend against. Individual manipulation, right?
1:01:07
Our voluntary personal manipulation that erodes our mind and our own individual liberty.
1:01:16
Can we defend against those things? Yeah, sure we can. Our susceptibility stems
1:01:21
from our innate needs, like security, belonging, shelter, those types of things.
1:01:30
And there's a constant internal struggle between like, well, I don't know.
1:01:40
I would say, I guess I'll just call it maturity versus accountability.
1:01:44
We always have that inner struggle, right? Right.
1:01:47
We're balancing the good decision versus the loose decision,
1:01:52
this maturity and accountability versus the frivolity and the carelessness. Right.
1:01:59
So we all got the little angel and a little devil on our shoulder.
1:02:03
And we're struggling between those. Are we mature or are we careless?
1:02:11
Maturity and accountability sometimes takes way more effort and carefree frivolity.
1:02:16
Is sometimes pretty easy, but it bites us in the ass later.
1:02:22
Centralized authority exploits this struggle to gain control.
1:02:28
That's it. They exploit our struggle to gain control of us.
1:02:33
But good people, a free republic, a free constitutional republic thrives through
1:02:42
individual liberty. Yeah.
1:02:47
Mass brainwashing is not unbeatable right it's not all lost so as an individual.
1:02:58
Build your own mental resilience
1:03:01
and do this by reading you know cultivate some critical thinking be self-aware
1:03:10
just understand how your actions affect you and the world around you have a
1:03:17
little bit of emotional grit. Yeah.
1:03:19
Emotional grit. Everybody wants to have physical grit and that's awesome.
1:03:24
Even the psychological grit, right? To fight through something or whatever.
1:03:32
Long as our minds tell it to go, right? But what about the emotional grit,
1:03:37
the hurt feelings, the easily offended?
1:03:41
That stuff plays a factor in all this. Have some emotional grit. Be tough.
1:03:48
If everything's a frigging trigger for you emotionally, I mean,
1:03:51
you're, yeah, it's not good.
1:03:54
Embrace a strong individual identity.
1:03:58
Be an individual and embrace that and work to be Be strong in yourself so that
1:04:05
then you can help people around you to be strong.
1:04:08
And we do that by building our trusted networks, right?
1:04:12
But our trusted friends and family, people that can depend on us,
1:04:17
that we can depend on outside of the system, right? Outside of a bigger system.
1:04:24
And then this should have been up front with the other is be a lifelong learner,
1:04:28
right? Be a lifelong learner.
1:04:31
Listen to other opinions, to other points of view, opposing points of view.
1:04:36
Listen to them. Take them in. Process them.
1:04:40
See if they make sense to you. And then if they logically do not, then reject them.
1:04:47
Not emotionally, just outright.
1:04:50
And then, so individually, right? But, okay, as a society, how do we resist?
1:04:56
How do we resist these control techniques?
1:04:59
Well, one, I say embrace nonconformity. Yeah, absolutely.
1:05:05
If the masses are the ones chanting a thing, chances are that's the wrong thing to be chanting.
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I'll believe that and I'll stand by that till the end.
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Embrace some positive diversity. And look here, don't confuse your diversity
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with superiority, all right?
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Embrace positive diversity. And that means different color, race,
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whatever it is, even different religion to a degree.
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But but don't confuse that
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with being superior embraced free exchange of goods and ideas and services yeah
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freedom of association the ability to do business with someone who believes
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differently than you not.
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Trying to get them to believe the way you believe or, or whatever,
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but because it's mutually beneficial for you to, to do business together.
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Well, but if people boycott me because I do business with you, I can't do business.
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Well, then it's not mutually beneficial anymore, but that sounds like a coercion to me.
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So exchange, free exchange and freedom of association, folks promote honest
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and objective fact checks and balances.
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That's it. You always got people on the internet is fact-checking other
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people on the internet who get fact-checked and turned
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out to be that they're all they're all fucked up that's
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not objective that's one-sided that's
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that's it has what you call agenda behind
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it we got to get get away from that stuff society wins folks by questioning
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power and by valuing individuals that's that's how society wins society loses
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through blind obedience to central authority. And that is it, and that is all.
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If you're a rebel and a bold individual.
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Until your side gets in charge, and now you become this massive conformist,
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then you were never a rebel, right?
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You were just waiting to get the power and the strength. and then you're probably
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just disingenuous anyway.
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So understand, society wins by questioning power no matter who has it and by
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valuing individuals, all individuals.
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Society loses through blind obedience to a central authority. Now look...
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Go back here. Be mindful of technology. It's a double-edged blade for sure.
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On one end, it has the ability to mass manipulate, has the ability to drain your brain.
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But on the other side, it has the ability to check facts, to check sources, to resist oppression.
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And as long as the internet remains free and open, we will be able to resist any coercion via that.
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So technology is not all the good. Be vigilant, folks.
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Be vigilant against politics, slow incremental erosion of liberty.
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They're not going to try to pass broad sweeping laws that imprison us and this and that and the other.
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It's going to be a slow erosion. And it has been a slow erosion, at least since 2001.
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At least since 2001. But we can go way back. We can go way, way back further than that.
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And understand this, if it's a thing that sounds good because it affects the
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other side, sooner or later, it's going to come back on you.
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Control is control, folks. Ultimately, it doesn't matter which side has it because
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ultimately each side is it's the same side it's all just government control so people,
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Be mindful, be positive because you can resist simply by being a strong individual
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and promoting strong individuality.
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But don't believe for one minute that the government ain't out to get you. It is. It is.
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So that's what I wanted to talk about, folks.
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Eust Miraloo, The Rape of the Mind, Psychology of Thought Control,
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Menticide and Brainwashing, published in 1956.
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I thought it was good stuff. I think it's good stuff I think it's as true today As it was in 1956,
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And Based on all those things Just stay aware folks Stay vigilant,
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Guard your autonomy And guard your liberty From these power hungry bureaucrats
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And technocrats Because they're leeches And they're out to suck the life out of you,
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Alright folks that was it That was it I appreciate you listening.
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I appreciate everybody who's been coming out to shoot. The private sessions
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have been going like crazy lately, and that's awesome.
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And check out TwoTeamGuys.com. We don't have anything scheduled,
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but please give it a look and see what kind of things we offer. Yeah.
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And then finally, give, send, go.com backslash help a homie fund.
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You know, we got a few, we got a few dedicated givers there,
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We just, we just helped a guy out literally a couple of days ago with some money
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So we're trying to do what we can do, but once again, it's still small change. Still small change.
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And we're going to put some effort into that.
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Feel free to reach out. Edgar Mills at OspreyShootingSolutions.com.
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If you agree or disagree with anything I say, you know, reach out. I'd love to hear it.
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If I don't, I'll research it even and just talk about it a little bit.
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Yeah that's it folks i appreciate you guys i love you guys i'm not going to
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do another podcast before new year so happy belated merry christmas and happy
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new year and i hope 2026 is a good one for us all right good people take care i love you guys.