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The answer is very simple and very old: Divide and conquer. To quote from my first article:

“Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases—especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias—against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized)

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And this scales up and down allowing for effective control at respective levels.

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Lol at username

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Indeed! Great username, BTW 😂

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I'm all for full transparency and so it is my real self. Many in this forum will vouch.

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Spot on. As neoliberalism enters even deeper crisis, expect more of such emotional divide issues pushed down to the masses to chew on. At some point it becomes the defining characteristics of the "tribes" which insanity they believe - credo quia absurdum.

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“credo quia absurdum”—love it!

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Thanks - great writing

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So glad you appreciated it! It’s been rather gratifying to see so many people tweeting it at tyrants around the world :-)

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Oh whoops, I was thinking you were referring to “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant) — sorry if that was confusing :-)

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