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Brainwashing
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The crowd, most on the verge of premature middle age, were mainly drinking in intimate pairs, whispering in one another’s ears, laughing, touching. Public intimacy was the new sexy and still carried a whiff of taboo.
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― The Potrero Complex
― The Potrero Complex
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By using a toolkit of brainwashing tactics for tapping into mimetic desire in order to energize the power of collective belief in … whatever (a ‘scientific’ model, a version of ‘history,’ a conspiracy theory, etc.), ‘truthers’ aren’t discovering ‘truth’ … They’re just making shit real.
That, my friends, in a sound bite, is how this world, on personal as well as communal levels, manifests.
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― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
― Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
