It’s not because we’ve tried to do anything horrible, but I think we need to be cognizant of what it might mean for other opportunities. And when I say opportunities, I literally mean sleep and eating and moving around the room and looking at somebody in the eyes.
There used to be kindle-books by “The Rogue Hypnotist”…
I don’t know if there still are…
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https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Cultural-Hypnosis-Startling-Confessions-ebook/dp/B00SEYRVR4
There. That book.
I’ve learned, since reading his stuff, that some books are heavy-handed with hypnotic-trance-induction technique ( “Ten Types of Human” by 1 author, & the books by “John Braddock” on thinking, risk, & strategy, as other examples )…
Keeping a population-of-consumers deep in hypnotic-trance means their independent-will won’t/can’t interfere with institutional bleeding-of-their-lives…
That’s really all it comes down to.
Also, beating a population into learned-helplessness means they’ll just accept all the escalations that one heaps on them, endlessly…
Those 2 principles underlie most of the strategy of our new media “reality”, nowadays.
Sad, but testably true.
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