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“Recruits were drawn together by some ostensibly life-or-death threat: the terrible truth of vaccines, the Illuminati agents who spread Zika, the feminists seeking to overturn men’s rightful place atop the gender hierarchy, starting with gaming. “Ordinary people began to feel like they were like soldiers in an online army fighting for their cause,” she said. It was only a matter of time until they willed one another to action.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

“They weren't fighting for the right to look at boobs in video games anymore, but fighting against "white genocide". [...] It wasn't just gaming that needed saving, but Western civilization itself.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

“The disparity between the survivors’ experience and the experts’ recommendations is intriguing.”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“[People consistently embrace] any excuse to divide between "us" and "them" - and showing distrust, even hostility, toward those in the out-group. During lunch breaks on the set of the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes, for instance, extras spontaneously separated into tables according to whether they played chimpanzees or gorillas.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World