Speaker 1: Okay, try this. How different would it be if the
same thing started looking now like it wouldn't change, if
nothing else really did, and you could just get completely open.
Did that feel a little weird, like your brain was
sort of scrambling for a second, trying to grab onto
something solid.
Speaker 2: It's interesting you start with that, because that feeling, that
momentary disorientation, that's not just bad grammar. It's actually a
window into something quite profound. What's fascinating here is that
this isn't just some quirky phenomenon. It's a deeply researched
and frankly incredibly effective method for influencing behavior and belief.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It's deliberate.
Speaker 1: It's designed to create that specific feeling exactly.
Speaker 2: It targets a fundamental vulnerability in how our minds process information,
forcing that momentary confusion.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're diving into today. We're unpacking a
whole stack of insights behavioral psychology, declassified government documents which
is pretty wild, and some cutting edge observations on modern communitytion.
Our mission really is to figure out how these subtle
but really potent forms of manipulation are engineered. You know
who's using them, and maybe most importantly, what it means
for your own mind.
Speaker 2: We're talking about deliberate confusion, yeah, but also emotional whiplash.
Those rapid shifts in tone or feeling. They're being used
as powerful persuasion tools.
Speaker 1: And not just in some like obscure cyclab or old
spy movies. Right, this stuff is happening in our everyday lives.
Speaker 2: That's the crucial part. We'll be looking at how our
own psychology, specifically our brain's natural response to uncertainty, that
desperate need for things to make sense, makes us uniquely vulnerable,
and critically, how that vulnerability is being systematically exploited by
all sorts of actors, from covert operations historically to commercial
interest today, often completely without us realizing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's start with this foundational idea. It sounds
like something straight out of fiction, but it's disturbingly real.
It comes from l. Ron Hubbard, the founder of scientology,
called it the Alice in Wonderland technique, which initially makes
you think of the Kid's story, Right, what does that
have to do with psychological manipulation.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not about the whimsy obviously, It's about the
disorientation Alice feels falling down the rabbit hole, that feeling
of reality shifting under your feet. The technique involves deliberately
bombarding someone with contradictory messages, phrases that just don't make
grammatical sense, and rapid jarring shifts in emotional tone I
think emotional whiplash.
Speaker 1: The goal isn't just temporary confusion.
Speaker 2: Then, no, No, it's much deeper than that. The aim
is to make their very grip on reality start to slip,
to fundamentally disrupt their cognitive balance.
Speaker 1: Like that sentence I started with, how different would it
be if the same thing started looking now like it
wouldn't change, if nothing else really did, and you could
just get completely open. Your logical brain just hits a wall, right,
It doesn't compute.
Speaker 2: Exactly, And imagine that kind of input relentlessly rapidly, with
no time to process or make sense of it. It's
designed to overwhelm your brain's normal filtering mechanisms.
Speaker 1: So what does that do psychologically?
Speaker 2: It's profound. Think about how someone reacts if they suddenly
slip and start falling. What do they do?
Speaker 1: Flail around, grab for anything.
Speaker 2: Right, limbs flailing desperate to grab the first solid thing,
they can reach, even if it's I don't know, a
thorny bush that's going to hurt them. Your mind does
something remarkably similar when it's thrown into that kind of
intense confusion. Yeah, in that moment of cognitive freefall, the
brain becomes absolutely desperate for anything stable, anything it can
latch onto to feel normal again.
Speaker 1: And that's the opening.
Speaker 2: That is the critical opening. Here's the terrifying part. The
very first logical piece of information or clear command, or
even just a coherent story that comes along after that
induced confusion, it gets accepted almost.
Speaker 1: Automatically, automatically without thinking about.
Speaker 2: It, or at least far more automatically. It bypasses the
usual critical thinking, the screening process your brain normally uses,
grabs it like the falling person grabbing the bush. Your
internal firewall.
Speaker 1: Just drops Wow. So you're just wide open to suggestion
at that point.
Speaker 2: Precisely in the world of behavioral influence, engineered confusion is
one of the most powerful and frankly dangerous tools there is.
Hubbard wrote about this extensively. How to systematically overwhelm someone's
cognitive processing to get them into that state. It's not
about winning an argument with logic. It's about disarming their
ability to use logic in the first place.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the theory, but you mentioned declassified documents. This
became operational chillingly.
Speaker 2: So fast forward in nineteen sixty one, the CIAD classifies
its infamous kup Barque Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual. Okay, and guess
what they found inside. Sections pulled almost word for word
from Hibberd's playbook instructions on inducing disorientation Creating vulnerability.
Speaker 1: Seriously, no attribution, just used.
Speaker 2: It, just adopted and operationalized. And this detail is absolutely crucial.
They didn't adopt it because they thought it helped get
the truth out of some Then why the manual called
it a psychological softening tool. The real goal, the much
more insidious goal, was, and I quote, to dismantle the
subject's internal logic and replace it with whatever narrative the
operator wanted.
Speaker 1: Dismantle internal logic, replace it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't about uncovering information. It was about overwriting the mind,
erasing or suppressing what someone believed and implanting something new.
It's belief control, not information gathering.
Speaker 1: Overwriting the mind. That's that's heavy. So this wasn't some
fringe idea. It was a government approved method for psychological control, and.
Speaker 2: It points to a broader understanding. Really, people like Milton Erickson,
you know of the famous hypnotherapist. He also wrote extensively
about similar concepts, using confusions, surprise, disorientation to access the subconscious.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't just humbered. It's a known vulnerability.
Speaker 2: It seems to be a fundamental aspect of human psychology.
Deliberately disrupting expectations creates this window, this opening where new
information can be slipped in with much less resistance. And
this basic idea of weaponizing confusion, as we'll see, shows
up in places far beyond interrogation rooms. It's about creating
a vacuum then filling it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so confusion creates an opening. How does this actually
play out in like normal life? How are our brains
wired for this?
Speaker 2: To get that, we need to talk about something called
invisible behavioral scripts. Think of your mind like a computer, right,
running tons of background programs all the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, like processes I don't even know are running exactly.
Speaker 2: These are ingrained mental routines, neural pathways, mostly subconscious, that
help us navigate daily life. They tell your brain, what's
normal in a situation, what to expect next, and crucially,
what information it can safely ignore. So they're like mental shortcuts,
essential shortcuts. They let us function on autopilot, making thousands
of tiny decisions without conscious effort. Imagine if you had
to consciously process every single site, sound, and sensation all
day long.
Speaker 1: Paralyzed right, total overload.
Speaker 2: These scripts built up through experience, learning, repetition. There are
default settings for reality. They can serve mental energy.
Speaker 1: But what happens when those scripts get broken interrupted?
Speaker 2: Ah, now we're back to the core idea. What happens
when your computer suddenly crashes, freezes up, can't execute the
next command.
Speaker 1: Panic, the spinning wheel of debt.
Speaker 2: Pretty much, your brain hits what psychologists sometimes call a
freeze point. It encounters something totally unexpected, a contradiction, sudden chaos,
a big emotional shock, and its usual logic just stops working.
It can't run the script. It panics, searching for a
familiar pattern that.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a system overload moment.
Speaker 2: And in that instant of cognitive panic, like we said
with the falling person, the brain becomes desperate for anything stable,
anything to hold on to. So whatever comes next, a belief,
a command, even a total lie. It feels safe just
because it offers something solid, a path forward. The brain
eating resolution just latches on automatically.
Speaker 1: And that's the moment.
Speaker 2: That's the moment the new command, the new belief gets
inserted with minimal resistance. It can effectively overwrite the old script.
Speaker 1: You see this with hypnotists too, right, using confusing language.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, a skilled hypnotist might use grammatically nonsensical statements. Your
conscious logical mind goes, wait, what that makes no sense?
It rejects it. But the subconscious, the subconscious doesn't necessarily
filter it the same way. It starts searching for meaning,
for an instruction, a pattern. And here's the trap. Once
the brain accepts that first slightly confusing instruction, while in
that suggestible state, it gets easier and easier to accept
the next one, and the next critical evaluation drops way down.
Speaker 1: Interesting, And what about this other technique, fractionation? How does
that fit?
Speaker 2: In? Fractionation is deeply related. It's essentially about rapidly bouncing
someone between two different mental or emotional.
Speaker 1: States, bouncing them how.
Speaker 2: In classic hypnosis, you might put someone into a trance,
then almost ediately start bringing them out. Maybe their eyes
just start to flutter open and then boom, send them
right back down, even deeper into the trance.
Speaker 1: Stupp and down, in and out.
Speaker 2: Why that constant disruption and restabilization that rhythmic oscillation significantly
increases suggestibility. It keeps a brain slightly off balance, constantly
seeking stability, making it more receptive each time it's guided
back into the trans state.
Speaker 1: Huh Can that happen just in conversation without actual hypnosis?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely. Think about someone you know who does this.
Maybe unconsciously they tell you something super exciting, really fun,
then immediately jarringly switched to something depressing or scary, then
back to fun, than back to scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I know people like that.
Speaker 2: It's kind of exhausting exactly. That emotional whiplash, that push pull,
that's a form of conversational fractionation. It keeps you mentally
and emotionally off balance, preventing you from settling. It makes
you more receptive to whatever point they're ultimately trying to make,
because your brain is just looking for that next moment
of resolution. So it primes you precisely. It systematically primes
the mind by repeatedly disrupting and then hinting at stability.
It subtly wears down your natural defenses. By keeping you
in this state of mild, unresolved tension, your brain gets
more desperate to accept the next pattern offered, even one
you might normally question.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if these techniques Alice in Wonderland, script interruption,
fractionation were developed for interrogation, for hypnosis, what does it
mean when we see the exact same patterns playing out
not in some secret room, but on the phone screen
in our pocket.
Speaker 2: It means these tools have been industrialized, scaled up to
an unbelievable degree. What was once a specialized technique for
a few is now subtly embedded in the architecture of
our digital lives, hitting billions of people.
Speaker 1: It's kind of chilling when you put it like that.
Speaker 2: Think about it, Grab your phone, scroll through your feet, Instagram, TikTok, whatever,
just watch the content flow. Okay, Yeah, it is fractionation
on a massive scale. It's disguised, sure as advice, motivation, news, entertainment,
but peel it back. It's built on the same psychological
bones as those manipulation scripts. Deliberate, rapid emotional cycling designed
to make you more suggestible.
Speaker 1: Wow, so it's not accidental.
Speaker 2: Not according to experts like Chase Hughes who analyzes this stuff.
Look at many modern alpha brand influencers, they are just
selling information. Their core strategy is often chaos first, then
order chaos first. Yeah, throw you into a mental spin cycle.
Just orient you with conflicting messages, emotional highs and lows,
get you feeling confused, inadequate, angry, hopeful, all in quick succession.
And then and then when your defenses are down, when
you're feeling that disorientation, they offer the clear, simple handout,
the solution, which conveniently you have to pay for.
Speaker 1: I can totally see that pattern. Promise freedom, then blame
you for being stuck. Then sell the course.
Speaker 2: Exactly one minute, it's the system is rigged against you,
making you angry or hopeless. The next minute, it's subtly
implied you're the problem for not having figured it out yet,
inducing guilt or insecurity right when you're most off balance,
desperate for that solid ground. Boom, here's my exclusive method,
my secret, my version of reality.
Speaker 1: It's not just marketing anymore, is it.
Speaker 2: It's psychological warfare. Dressed up in filters and fancy editing.
It's leveraging cognitive overload. Your brain can only handle so
much contradiction, so many rapid emotional shifts before it's just
short circuits. And when it's short circuits, critical thinking tanks.
It doesn't just slow down, it often just stops. And
when active thinking stops, what takes over is following compliance,
seeking the easiest path. That's where the real manipulation kicks in.
Speaker 1: You hear those scripts everywhere too, don't you. You know nothing.
The system's broken, Only we have the answers, the.
Speaker 2: Classic confusion pause insertion script delivered by a thousand online hustlers,
each wearing their own costume of authority. And it works
not because it's logical, but because it taps into something deeper, identity.
Speaker 1: Identity.
Speaker 2: How so this is critical. They're not just selling you
a program, they're selling you a new version of yourself,
one that fits neatly into their tribe. Rejects the outsiders,
the NPCs, the normal people, joins the elite.
Speaker 1: So it's about belonging.
Speaker 2: It's about belonging, but it's manufactured belonging, built on that
emotional roller coaster fear. Then hope than guilt, then belonging
them back to fear. That cycle isn't a side effect,
it is the point. It keeps you hooked, vulnerable, programmable.
Speaker 1: Is there actual research on this emotional cycling effect.
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely. A twenty twenty two study in the Journal
of Social Influence found that rapid emotional changes increased vulnerability
to persuasive messages by nearly forty eight percent.
Speaker 1: Wow, almost fifty percent more vulnerable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially potent when the message comes from someone
you perceive as an authority figure, which is exactly the
persona these online gurus cultivate.
Speaker 1: So they sell urgency, lifestyle, family, and if you don't
join your.
Speaker 2: Week, a loser, incapable. It's judgment disguised as motivation. It's
all about crafting that identity, selling it to the most
emotionally scrambled version of you. And once they achieve that
identity agreement, once you internalize their narrative as your identity,
your future behavior becomes incredibly predictable to them. Like in politics, too,
exactly the same mechanism. Hijack identity and you gain enormous influence.
It stops being about agreeing with an ideologically it's about agreeing,
because that belief is now part of who you are.
Speaker 1: And the social media feed itself reinforces this, the constant switching.
Speaker 2: Think about it, rage, clip about politics, swipe, heartfelt trauma,
healing story, swipe luxury car, link to a masterclass, swipe, sad,
breakup post swep. Each one spikes different brain chemicals cortisol, dopamine, oxytocin,
then drops them rage, empathy, desire, sadness, up down, up down.
Speaker 1: You're not just watching videos, You're.
Speaker 2: Being rewired systematically. The more emotionally scrambles you are, the
more programmable you become. It is the Alice in Wonderland technique,
but delivered by algorithm, algorithmic chaos, pushing you from fear
to hope, to loneliness to desire in under sixty seconds,
and then right on que selling you the fix for
whatever feeling you just had.
Speaker 1: What looks like entertainment is behavioral warfare, and they're not
just fighting for your attention anymore.
Speaker 2: They're fighting for your identity because if they control who
you think you are, they control everything else.
Speaker 1: And it's not just influencers. You mentioned governments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another alarming layer. It's not just individuals or
private groups. Governments globally are using sophisticated algorithms in tech
to manipulate narratives, steer public opinion, influence discussions online. It's
happening at a scale and subtlety that's hard to grasp.
Speaker 1: Our brains just don't have a firewall for this level
of targeted psych tech, do they not?
Speaker 2: Inherently No, the technology has simply outpaced our evolutionary defenses.
We're up against systems designed with an intimate knowledge of
our psychological weak spots, operating its speeds and scales we
weren't build to handle. It's a fundamental mismatch.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is where it gets really interesting, maybe even
a bit disturbing, connecting today back to history. These tools,
these vulnerabilities, they weren't invented yesterday for TikTok.
Speaker 2: Not at all. Many are forged in much higher space environments,
war rooms, interrogation chambers.
Speaker 1: And one of the most famous examples, one that still
gives me chills, is the Milgrim experiment. People have probably
heard of it, but let's really walk through it because
the implications are still so relevant.
Speaker 2: Right. The Milgrim Experiment Yale University nineteen sixty two. Groundbreaking,
highly controversial. The stated goal was studying obedience to authority.
Speaker 1: How did they get people involved?
Speaker 2: Just regular newspaper ads looking for volunteers for a study
on learning and memory. They offered a small payment, like
a lunch boucher. Totally innocuous sounding.
Speaker 1: So you show up.
Speaker 2: You show up, meet a stern looking guy and a
lab coat, the experimenter. There's another volunteer already there. You're
told you'll draw straws for roles teacher or learner.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't random, never random.
Speaker 2: The real participant always drew teacher. The other person, the
learner was actually an actor part of this setup.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're the teacher.
Speaker 2: What's the task, the experimenter explains. The learner is in
the next room, strapped to a chair supposedly wired up
for electric shocks. You, the teacher, will sit at this console.
You read word pairs. If the learner gets one wrong,
you delivered electric shock.
Speaker 1: And the shocks were fake, completely fake.
Speaker 2: The learner was just acting, but the teacher, the actual participant,
absolutely believed they were real. And here's the kicker. Each
time the learner made a mistake, you had to not
only give a shock, but also increase the voltage. Turn
a dial, how high did it go? The console had
labels starting with slight shock, moving up through moderate strong,
very strong, all the way to xxx danger severe shock,
really ominous.
Speaker 1: Oh man? So what happened when they started?
Speaker 2: As the voltage supposedly increased, the actor playing the learner
started reacting grunt complaints. Then he starts mentioning a heart
condition he supposedly has. As the shocks get stronger, you
hear louder protests, screams through the wall, let me out,
my heart's bothering me. I refuse to continue, and.
Speaker 1: The teacher, the real participant, what are they doing?
Speaker 2: Getting visibly distressed, turning to the experimenter, the guy on
the lab coat saying, I don't think I should continue.
He sounds like he's in pain. Shouldn't we check on him?
And the experimenter's response shillingly simple and calm. He had
four specific prods he would use in order please continue,
or the experiment requires that you continue, then it is
absolutely essential that you continue. And finally, you have no
other choice. You must go on. Just those calm, authoritative statements.
Speaker 1: Wow, And the learner's protests got.
Speaker 2: Worse, more desperate, until at the highest voltage levels, the
learner just went silent. No more screams, no answers, just silence.
Speaker 1: What were the results? How many people kept going.
Speaker 2: This is what's done everyone at the time. Every single
participant went up to at least two hundred and fifty volts,
well into the intense shock range. Every single one, every
single one and sixty seven percent two at three people
went all the way to the maximum the XX danger
severe shock level just because a man in a lab
coat told him the experiment required it. Two thirds of people.
That's horrifying. It was deeply unsettling. And what makes it
even more relevant is that this wasn't just some weird
artifact of the nineteen sixties. They've redone the study, yeah,
a careful replication by doctor Jerry Berger in twenty ten,
published in a major journal American Psychologist. The results almost
exactly the same numbers.
Speaker 1: No way decades later, same obedience, different.
Speaker 2: Year, same underlying psychology, same obedience to perceived authority. It
shows how deeply ingrained this response can be.
Speaker 1: So what's the big takeaway from Melbourne for today?
Speaker 2: It's what behavioral analysts like Chase Hughes emphasized constantly, you
don't need drugs or torture or even shouting. That potent
mix of novelty, something unexpected catching your attention plus confusion
plus perceived authority that can get you full.
Speaker 1: Compliance, no complex hypnosis needed.
Speaker 2: Just as Milgrim showed a clean room, a symbol of
authority like a uniform or a title, and the right script.
The brain defaults to obedience when it's disoriented and presented
with a clear authority figure.
Speaker 1: So the scariest part isn't just what happened back then.
Speaker 2: It's that nothing fundamental seems to have changed in our wiring,
and now that man in the lab code that symbol
of authority, It could just be an influencer with a
blue check mark, or a convincing online persona delivering those
commands right through your screen.
Speaker 1: The setting change, the delivery mechanism changed, with.
Speaker 2: The psychological vulnerability still there, still exploitable.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the techniques are powerful, the vulnerabilities are real.
But does this stuff work on everyone equally?
Speaker 2: That's a really crucial point, and the answer, according to
experts who study and apply this, is no. It's not
just about the technique it's very much about targeting.
Speaker 1: Targeting meaning finding the right piece exactly.
Speaker 2: Chase Hughes makes this point very strongly. Controlling behavior doesn't
always need incredibly deep psychological knowledge or fancy hypnosis. Sometimes
the key isn't the technique itself, it's selecting the right
kind of person to apply it to.
Speaker 1: You don't need to manipulate everyone, just those.
Speaker 2: Who are inherently more susceptible. It becomes a science of selection,
finding the path of least resistance.
Speaker 1: How do you identify those people? Do they wear a sign?
Speaker 2: Huh? Not exactly, but Hughes suggests that the most influenceable
people often show subtle, observable behavioral cues, sometimes literally on
their faces, on their faces like what One specific and
maybe surprising detail he points to is having wrinkle free
under eyes.
Speaker 1: Wrenkell free under eyes. Seriously, how does that relate?
Speaker 2: It sounds counterintuitive, I know, but he connects it to
how some individuals process emotional cues, suggesting it correlates with
higher emotional suggestibility. It's a marker he's observed consistently linked
to being more receptive to influence.
Speaker 1: That's really specific and kind of strange.
Speaker 2: It is specific. He explicitly states that people with extremely
smooth lower eyelids tend to be significantly more prone to
entering trance states and accepting suggestions without resistance. And that's
based on he says, it's based on extensive observation and
feedback from thousands of hypnotists and practitioners. The underlying idea
is pretty simple though. If someone is easily persuaded once,
they're likely easier to persuade again. It points to an
existing openness.
Speaker 1: So it's about spotting that pre existing susceptibility precisely.
Speaker 2: And that's why professionals who rely on influence think cult recruiters,
hostage negotiators, interrogators, they all focus heavily on reading these
subtle cues. It's not just about how to persuade, but who.
To focus their efforts on. Targeting increases efficiency dramatically.
Speaker 1: It makes their job easier if they pick the right
person significantly.
Speaker 2: And to help systematize reading these cues, Hughes actually developed
a tool he calls the Behavioral Table.
Speaker 1: Of Elements A table of elements for behavior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a pdf you can find online for free.
It's basically a comprehensive catalog of human behaviors rated on
a spectrum from least deceptive to most deceptive.
Speaker 1: Wow, what's in it?
Speaker 2: It outlines over one hundred different human behaviors. Each one
is analyzed for its likelihood of indicating deception, stress, or conversely,
emotional openness and comfort. And it's not just guesswork. It's
built on synthesizing findings from over forty different peer reviewed
scientific studies plus years of his own real world observational data.
He calls it a toolkit for behavioral control or the
ultimate one page guide to reading a human being.
Speaker 1: Okay, so how does it work? What does it show you?
Speaker 2: It's pretty detailed. For each behavior, it indicates how likely
it is to be deceptive. It also notes whether you
typically see it before, during, or after someone makes a statement.
It assigns a numerical deception score, and even lists other
behaviors that might confirm or amplify the finding.
Speaker 1: So like a checklist for reading people.
Speaker 2: In a way, Everything on the left side of the
table represents behaviors generally associated with comfort, honesty, relaxation. Everything
on the right side points towards stress, deception, discomfort.
Speaker 1: Can you give some examples of the behaviors it covers sure.
Speaker 2: It covers facial expressions, subtle muscle movements, micro expressions highlighted
and turquoise on the chart. It looks at how people
interact with objects around them, fidgeting, barrier building with items.
It also gets deep into speech patterns, things like a
rising vocal pitch under pressure, speeding up speech unnaturally, or
using non answered statements, those replies that sound like an
answer but cleverly dodge the actual question.
Speaker 1: And this is all research backed.
Speaker 2: He states that every single behavior listed is supported by
a minimum of four separate pieces of academic research, So
it aims for empirical validity, not just anecdotal observation.
Speaker 1: A literal table of elements for human behavior, mapping our
tells and susceptibilities. That's quite a thought.
Speaker 2: It definitely underscores the level of sophisticated analysis being applied
to understanding and predicting human behavior today. It's far beyond
simple intuition. It's systematic data driven. Hashtag Tash takes outro.
Speaker 1: So wrapping all this up, the Alice in Wonderland technique,
the interrupted scripts, the fractionation on our feeds, the Milgrim legacy,
even the science of targeting susceptibility. What does it all
mean for us right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I think the sober intakeaway is that the question
probably isn't if you're being subjected to manipulation attempts.
Speaker 1: Right that seems like a given at this point.
Speaker 2: The real question is maybe how many different versions of
these influence scripts have been tested on you? Specifically today?
That social media feed isn't just content. It really is
a vast personalized behavioral laboratory.
Speaker 1: And we're not the audience in that lab.
Speaker 2: You're the subject these techniques, from the old CIA manuals
to the newest algorithms, they're just theories anymore. They're active,
dynamic systems, constantly shaping what you see, what you come
to believe, and ultimately who you become. The architecture of
influences everyone, and.
Speaker 1: Maybe the most chilling part of it all, once you've
been subtly rewired by these systems, once your identity gets
reshaped by that constant emotional cycling and the pull of
tribal agreement presented while you're kept slightly.
Speaker 2: Off balance, you might not even notice it's happening, which
leaves us.
Speaker 1: With a pretty heavy final thought, doesn't it In a
world seemingly designed to keep our minds in that perpetual
state of falling, always scrambling for something solid. How do
you find your own solid ground? How do you maintain
your own sense of reality,