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The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. This episode Paul Miil explains "You can argue opinions, you can explain facts, but excuses are for losers."

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Ep 14 Miil covers "better", "epiphanies" and "close-enough encounters".

We all make assumptions based on what we think is right. We may not be right, even though everything looked like it was right. These wrong assumptions Miil calls Phantom Connections.

If ever there was a type of manipulation, priming is it.

So simple to not feed the monster, cut the strings and walk away.

Thought predators don't stop at mental techniques, they also use physical techniques. Miil goes over the physical techniques used by manipulators as well as thought-stopping (stopping wrong-think), inoculation (stopping outsiders from swaying the indoctrinated targets) and radicalization (contemporary university graduates.. ;)

This episode Miil talks about the psychological tactics used by the thought predator.

In 1954 Aldous Huxley, (the Brit who wrote Brave New World 1932) wrote The Doors of Perception, which was a drug induced exploration of SCHEMATA. (Jim Morrison read it and named his band "The Doors" after the book). This series is about defending yourself from manipulation. Our minds are not infallible and there are many ways manipulators can use our own minds against us. One of those vectors of attack is poking for holes in the model of schemata... our mental framework for perception, to see if any of our doors are left unlocked...

We aren't omniscient and we don't have infinite time to convey a story, we therefore have to summarize stories... frame them in a context. This is utilized by scumbag manipulators along with spin. Deeper meanings? Stories within stories? Directed assumptions. Be wary.

Manipulators use our brain's wiring against us, framing our attitudes, using the consistency principle and creating tension to force us to change.

Fighting wrong assumptions by compartmentalization of arguments, stories, concepts into models.

Miil talks about a the manipulation techniques of flattery, distortion and keeping on the straight and narrow.

From the monster Pavlov to inculcation, don't let your mind be cooked.

Second in a series on how to protect ourselves from manipulation, fake news and brainwashing. Paul Miil explains the difference between archetype and stereotype and why that matters.

How we all have flaws in our thinking and how to watch our for our own errors.