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*Anti-woke counterrevolutionary podcast focused on the invasive ideological species and the widespread confluence of money, boutique ”news” propaganda, psychology, and hyper-connective tech: The Social Media Disease. Videos on Spotify and ToddzillaX @ YouTube.

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#163 - Superbloom, Storytellers, and Steaming Piles of Truth

Friday May 30, 2025

#163 - Superbloom, Storytellers, and Steaming Piles of Truth

Friday May 30, 2025

Friday May 30, 2025

Largely inspired by a strange trip to the dentist and Nicholas Carr's new book, Superbloom, Todd returns from his latest covert CIA mission to delve into how we've all been lied to: it turns out "sharing" more actually doesn't make people like you! Also, the disillusioning effects of abandoning comforting stories for naked truth. And why most instinctively avoid it.

 

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#146 - The Information Paradox, Mr. McTrump, Kamala Chameleon: The '24 Election Companion

Monday Nov 04, 2024

#146 - The Information Paradox, Mr. McTrump, Kamala Chameleon: The '24 Election Companion

Monday Nov 04, 2024

Monday Nov 04, 2024

Recorded on the eve of the 2024 election, this episode begins by exploring two different types of informational perspectives: the naive and populist/propagandist views, and whether more is actually better. 

Next, why are facts irrelevant to loyal followers and how does that tie in to professional wrestling? (It's the story!)

Finally, who is Kamala Harris..really? Her word salads say nothing. Thankfully, her old campaign words say plenty. Have the extremes finally seized control of both factions?  

 

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[Reload] Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen Ones (9/10/19)

Tuesday Aug 23, 2022

[Reload] Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen Ones (9/10/19)

Tuesday Aug 23, 2022

Tuesday Aug 23, 2022

From 2019:

Social validation, dopamine, and social media's Walter White; more on how people are more willing and eager than deceived when it comes to swallowing fiction and disinformation; choking on data leading to confused gullibility; honestly in a crisis; Sausage Party Hope: children demanding their happy ending. Where's the spring of genuine hope?

ALSO:      

  • The Battle of the 21st Century
  • The iceberg bobbing off our bow
  • Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: Walter White cutting his meth supply? 
  • Pinker's Utopian vs. Tragic Vision
  • Evolution and self-awareness
  • The bi-weekly apocalypse and their "chosen ones"
  • Progress's Myth and becoming organic
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#107 - Social Media Avatars: Crazy, Stupid, or Full of Sh*t?

Monday Mar 01, 2021

#107 - Social Media Avatars: Crazy, Stupid, or Full of Sh*t?

Monday Mar 01, 2021

Monday Mar 01, 2021

Trump's CPAC appearance marks the start of the 2024 campaign, barely a month into Biden's term. Will we survive this? After other contemporary messages of heartwarming fellowship and hope, Todd continues phoning his shows in, this time "reimagining" episode #64 which discussed performance-based validation addiction. Recorded at the beginning of the pandemic, other topics include how collective critical thought is impossible. You're not the Elephant Whisperer and their switch is internal. You can't "save" anyone! A timely reminder in the Age of Q. Also, leaving the vanquished a path home to save your own casualties.

 

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#106 - Political Cults & Mobs 101

Monday Feb 22, 2021

#106 - Political Cults & Mobs 101

Monday Feb 22, 2021

Monday Feb 22, 2021

After a 2021 open, your friendly virtual Toddzilla mines early episodes, from 2014 & 2018, as a foreshadowing refresher on ideological religions and the Holy War being fueled by their proselytizing zombie hordes. Remember kids, mobs: they're f***ing stupid! Ask your doctor if intellectual autonomy is right for you! (RE27)

 

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#105 - Exploration, Evolution, Death of a Propagandist

Thursday Feb 18, 2021

#105 - Exploration, Evolution, Death of a Propagandist

Thursday Feb 18, 2021

Thursday Feb 18, 2021

People are storytellers not truth seekers. And we're explorers to the core. If you're looking for something positive, exploration brings out the best in us. Good luck today, JPL!  How do we become more sophisticated informational consumers? Loved him? Hated him? Either way, Rush Limbaugh was probably the best and most influential for-profit propagandist ever. Also, finding the line between honesty and aggression, how the pandemic complicates a digital detox, and the relationship between money and exploration. 

 

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#100 - American Zapatistas, Saboteur in Chief, The Lone Boogaloo

Monday Jan 18, 2021

#100 - American Zapatistas, Saboteur in Chief, The Lone Boogaloo

Monday Jan 18, 2021

Monday Jan 18, 2021

With troops flooding DC, Trump's term ends in two days time. Why doesn't it feel certain that it will? Was a nation of "patriots" suddenly afflicted with insurrectile dysfunction on Sunday? Is Donald Trump a foreign agent? Who cares? He performed like one. What lies at the confluence of technology & idiocracy? Also, letting escaped cultists find their way home, When Stories Attack:  factional storytelling is propaganda, and Toddzilla stalks Telegram! How did this thing make it to 100? (SM7B)

 

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#97 - All You Need Is Doubt

Monday Jan 04, 2021

#97 - All You Need Is Doubt

Monday Jan 04, 2021

Monday Jan 04, 2021

Fresh off his first motivational speaking tour, Todd returns to the podcast to discuss uplifting topics such as why it's not necessary to conquer a democracy when a just little doubt'll do ya. Also, it's been relatively quiet on the streets lately. Is The Trump Militia all hat and no cattle or is something else at play? How can a nation avoid inevitable conflict when each half of the country functions according to different rules of factual physics? Is there a relationship between likability, deplorability, & disinformation? What's with the December Dead Zone? And, your host's persistent sense of existential hopelessness an argument for ending all digital political "discourse." Book those children's parties now!

 

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#89 - An Invasive Species Gazes Into The Abyss

Monday Sep 28, 2020

#89 - An Invasive Species Gazes Into The Abyss

Monday Sep 28, 2020

Monday Sep 28, 2020

Todd & Brian discuss whether the "divine" human species is in fact both bipolar and invasive, the difficulties that come from gazing into the Abyss, and moral imperatives vs. self-righteousness: how narcissistic morality becomes naked authoritarianism. Also, where solutions to the informational anarchy crisis must begin, when the ends smother the means, how a species can summon both altruism and barbarity, and let's kill Rousseau's Noble Savage once and for all. Yes! More easy social dilemma listening to help you escape the world's troubles! Like it? Share it!  

 

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#88 - Steinbeck, Murrow, and The Social Media Disease

Monday Sep 21, 2020

#88 - Steinbeck, Murrow, and The Social Media Disease

Monday Sep 21, 2020

Monday Sep 21, 2020

Continuing the Social Dilemma theme, Todd and Brian delve further into the social, psychological, and personal effects of more than a decade of social media, including meeting members of their direct families for the first time directly via Facebook. Also, Todd's argument against monetization, digital reunions and the bizarre new expectation that, somehow, everyone from every epoch of our lives now deserves a seat at our virtual table. We also discuss the failed utopian vision of "informational democracy" and the essential nature of gatekeeper, learning how to both use these platforms as tools and sabotage the Zuckorithm, as well as possible macro and micro solutions. Is this a triage situation? The show closes with a surprise appearance by Edward R. Murrow and why informational anarchy and intellectual autonomy, not climate change, is the crisis of our time. 

 

Murrow's Text: https://www.rtdna.org/content/edward_r_murrow_s_1958_wires_lights_in_a_box_speech

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#87 - The Social Dilemma: War of the Virtual Worlds

Monday Sep 14, 2020

#87 - The Social Dilemma: War of the Virtual Worlds

Monday Sep 14, 2020

Monday Sep 14, 2020

Todd and Brian discuss The Social Dilemma, the new Netflix documentary probing the exploitative, corrosive, and polarizing effects of social media, both psychologically and socially. Also, the addictive nature of the medium, how it manipulates evolutionary psychology, the potentially dangerous side effects of performance withdrawal and how, once you escape, you become an organic organism in a digital ecosystem. We also tinker with solutions and discuss the horrific dystopia awaiting us if we fail to find them. Hint 1: It's the people. Hint 2: The tube: it's social media and Google!

 

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#84 - Intellectual Populism, Enemy of the People, The Humanovirus S**tshow

Wednesday Aug 19, 2020

#84 - Intellectual Populism, Enemy of the People, The Humanovirus S**tshow

Wednesday Aug 19, 2020

Wednesday Aug 19, 2020

Detailing the gloriously organic results coming from a month of social media, news, and podcasting detox. Also, boutique "news" & democratized opinion's relationship to mob rule: Ibsen's Enemy of the People, the humanovirus and its ubiquitous invasive species traits, the Dennis Doctrine, and podcasting without Sausage Party Hope and with a severed validation stream leaves one pesky unanswered question: "why the f**ck am I doing this?"

 

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#81 - Activist Media, Dogma as God, Marrow of Humanity

Tuesday Jun 16, 2020

#81 - Activist Media, Dogma as God, Marrow of Humanity

Tuesday Jun 16, 2020

Tuesday Jun 16, 2020

When the entire media's just abandoned their "objective" pretenses, where do you go? Also, digital detox and cutting the incoming noise, homogenous consistency of thought throughout a congregation qualifies as "religion", retained ideological attorneys, the difference between organic human beings and their virtual online projections, and the Marrow of Humanity: who we are when no one's looking. Don't worry. I'll get to the protests, riots, and thought-purges soon enough. Prepare yourselves accordingly!

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#80 - The Stalker Militia, A Hydroxy Hardon, Woke Youth

Tuesday May 19, 2020

#80 - The Stalker Militia, A Hydroxy Hardon, Woke Youth

Tuesday May 19, 2020

Tuesday May 19, 2020

So, about that silly "in this together" thing... Topics include Trump's bizarre and supernatural hydroxychloroquine erection, quarantine and consumerist withdrawal, free-rage extremism and Michigan's armed stalkers closing the capitol, ideological bleed-over, identity politics infecting the virus, humble ignorance, a COVID-exploiting Woke Youth Recruitment video seizing the national airwaves, and what happens when I go off my gated social media reservation and why it's becoming nearly essential to completely disconnect. 

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#78 - Social Media Disease: A Cacophony of Nothing

Wednesday Apr 29, 2020

#78 - Social Media Disease: A Cacophony of Nothing

Wednesday Apr 29, 2020

Wednesday Apr 29, 2020

Todd's merciful Bat Plague boycott continues with more spiritually uplifting content like: "F**k Subaru. I hate them and you should, too." Also, 2020's Jill Stein; Steinbeck, Salinas, and digital detox; social media "should" be regulated like radio; data overload is killing democracy; the Wisdom of the People™ doesn't exist therefore populism is pandering to a screeching herd; and rejoice! The Devil's all up in ya! Can you feel him?    

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#77 - The Blacklands Abyss

Tuesday Apr 28, 2020

#77 - The Blacklands Abyss

Tuesday Apr 28, 2020

Tuesday Apr 28, 2020

Taking an improvised break from Bat Plague punditry by focusing on more "uplifting" material like cancerous cynicism! Also, a few old hitchhiking yarns and the metaphysical notion of trail magic, losing your religion, the God/Devil parable, and ignoring the positive side of universal human duality. Just for optimistic kicks, I also muse about my podcast's course and its ultimate futility. A warm and fuzzy episode? Believe it or not, kinda. And, no Covid! You're welcome.

 

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#76 - Hot Pockets & Lysol

Monday Apr 27, 2020

#76 - Hot Pockets & Lysol

Monday Apr 27, 2020

Monday Apr 27, 2020

"Idiocracy 2: The Pandemic" continues. Todd discusses how the coronavirus hype has matched the reality, his digital detox, covid's ominous sign for star spangled socialist "revolutionaries", hot pockets, and how one quarantine doesn't fit all. He also asks where the Lansing protest's ideological diversity was (not what you think) and rages against Trump supporters and the intellectual treason of joining his limp and lame post hoc orgy. Children's parties: booked thru May! Book June's bat mitzvah or graduation party now! Promo code: "Brawndo" gets you 50% off! Clip: Jim Gaffigan.

 

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#74 - Detroit, Intellectual Distancing, The Glowing Antichrist

Saturday Mar 28, 2020

#74 - Detroit, Intellectual Distancing, The Glowing Antichrist

Saturday Mar 28, 2020

Saturday Mar 28, 2020

Can Detroit and rural Michigan bear what they say is coming? Social distancing as an apt metaphor and how it can be useful. A crisis instinctively prods a frightened herd into a closed-tribe psychology, which is nationalism. How data overload contributes to it and helps obliterate the utopian Brotherhood of Man mythology. Why many quietly want Trump to fail, whether they admit it or not.

 

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#64 - Social Media Disease: The Dopamine Drip

Wednesday Feb 26, 2020

#64 - Social Media Disease: The Dopamine Drip

Wednesday Feb 26, 2020

Wednesday Feb 26, 2020

"Whoever owns social validation..." Performance addiction and how the masses have become junkies gorging on validation's dopamine stream. How various influencers, including podcasters, have monetized validation in the name of "brand building". Propaganda, validation, dopamine, and Ellul's "conditioned response." How social momentum works: Tony McAleer on Your Undivided Attention. Also, how ideological boldness is a surefire sign of a propagandee.

Listen to "Your Undivided Attention" here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/

 

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#61 - Unimpressed Sobriety & Sanity’s Touchstone

Tuesday Feb 11, 2020

#61 - Unimpressed Sobriety & Sanity’s Touchstone

Tuesday Feb 11, 2020

Tuesday Feb 11, 2020

Toddzilla's latest Message of Hope formally introduces the loyal listener to Mr. Lippmann: a Man of the People! Touched on are Lippmann's "The Phantom Public", his iconoclastic thoughts on technologically pre-historic data overload, emotional detachment, objective reality, the presumed wisdom of We the People™, and democracy's fate. Have a drink first. Also, institutions and trust are dead, less-not-more is the answer, a defense of the "elites", a need for collective humility, and generalists vs. specialists. 

 

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#59 - Conformist Suicide

Saturday Feb 01, 2020

#59 - Conformist Suicide

Saturday Feb 01, 2020

Saturday Feb 01, 2020

"Imitation is suicide." How independent thought gets smothered in infancy, the need to belong: why standing apart from the impaired herd is not only hard, it runs against our social and evolutionary grain. Also, collective and self-delusions protecting us from unpleasant discoveries that might destroy our notions of being special, divine, or even "good."  

ALSO: 

-Tending to personal and commercial attachments

-How political and marketing swine manipulate attachments via identity

-Meditation and Buddhist philosophy as tools to disconnect

-Blank Slatists: Beware

-Emerson's Self-Reliance: read it. 

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#51 - Pinching The Impeachment Loaf

Wednesday Oct 09, 2019

#51 - Pinching The Impeachment Loaf

Wednesday Oct 09, 2019

Wednesday Oct 09, 2019

Are you stuck trying to build a well-reasoned, impartial, and detached impeachment snowman from competing piles of steaming cable news shit? Yeah. Me too. The only lens that works: the wide-angle agitation propaganda lens. First, a virtual colon cleanse in the form of a micro-pod. 

ALSO: 

  • Fcuk Twitter
  • Twice
  • Hard
 
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#49 - Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent Mob

Friday Sep 27, 2019

#49 - Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent Mob

Friday Sep 27, 2019

Friday Sep 27, 2019

Institutions fail and democracy descends into mob rule when representative are paralyzed and terrorized by fear of their voters. Trump, Ukraine, and 2020's year-long electoral reality show disguised as an idealistic impeachment. Informational sectarianism and how it's easy to see "their" propaganda. Yours? Never! Their demagogue is your savior. There may be a way for a detaching informational unicorn treat that. MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper; when everything is spin and propaganda, who's a political infidel supposed to believe?

 Also: 

  • Alternate Informational Universes 
  • Half-assed media sophistication: not enough
  • Why can't we watch the opposition's media without going nuts?
  • Our dueling scandals aren't automatically mutually exclusive
  • More on the the Current Events Man 
  • Media isn't free. You are the product being sold. 
 
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#48 - The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse

Thursday Sep 26, 2019

#48 - The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse

Thursday Sep 26, 2019

Thursday Sep 26, 2019

"The fiction is taken as truth because the fiction is badly needed." A quick introduction to Walter Lippmann and the commonality between him, Ellul, Bernays, Haidt, and Harari. People can't personally perceive the world beyond their own sliver of firsthand experience. Therefore, the Current Events Man is beholden, dependent upon, and therefore exploited by the propagandist and his digital distortions. If democracy is demands an "enlightened citizenry", it's likely doomed from the start. Paradoxically, there's a stab at some hope in here too. Weird. 

ALSO:

  • Te Nosce, bitches 
  • Competing Scandals; Competing Networks; Competing Narratives 
  • Smoking, Facebook, and associative dopamine addiction.    
  • The Matrix and the Internet
  • The responsibility and danger of exposing "their" delusion
  • All Cats Meow
  • Why we believe the ridiculous
  • Finding hope in human imperfection
  • More on likability and art
  • The Hobgoblin  
  • Where the hell is Jill Stein? #NeverForget

 

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#45 - Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen Ones

Tuesday Sep 10, 2019

#45 - Iceberg Ahoy! Validation Junkies & The Chosen Ones

Tuesday Sep 10, 2019

Tuesday Sep 10, 2019

Social validation, dopamine, and social media's Walter White; the predictably ridiculous reaction to Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special and how comedy has evolved from truth telling to Wokeflake proselytizing; more on how people are more willing and eager than deceived when it comes to swallowing fiction and disinformation; choking on data leading to confused gullibility; honestly in a crisis; Sausage Party Hope: children demanding their happy ending. Where's the spring of genuine hope?

ALSO:      

  • The Battle of the 21st Century
  • The iceberg bobbing off our bow
  • Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube: Walter White cutting his meth supply? 
  • Pinker's Utopian vs. Tragic Vision
  • Evolution and self-awareness
  • The apocalypse and its "chosen ones"
  • Progress's Myth and becoming organic

 

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#42 - Propaganda: Contradictions, Agitation Media, Typhoid Mark

Thursday Aug 22, 2019

#42 - Propaganda: Contradictions, Agitation Media, Typhoid Mark

Thursday Aug 22, 2019

Thursday Aug 22, 2019

Propaganda's ambiguity and contradictions including: creating tensions while relieving others, the Outrage Media Complex and introduction to the companion propagandas: agitation and integration and how they overlap; self-justification and imposed guilt; attachment and ostracizing oneself to join the "enemy; politicization and privatization; "Why die for Danzig?' and how political orphans benefit extremists and authoritarians.

ALSO:

  • Andrew Sullivan on the boomerang
  • Post-Truth hatred and division: a bigger threat than climate change
  • Don't blame the bartender for getting you drunk
  • Twitter, Facebook, and Typhoid Mary
  • Atomic Ping Pong
  • Our personal broadcast stations
  • The Russia investigation saved the Democrats
  • Setting up your triage tent
  • Forget the mob; save yourself
  • Information or Propaganda? Can you tell? Does it even matter?
  • The Matrix & Propaganda

Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747

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#41 - Propaganda: Drunks In Denial

Saturday Aug 17, 2019

#41 - Propaganda: Drunks In Denial

Saturday Aug 17, 2019

Saturday Aug 17, 2019

On Ellul's "The Need For Propaganda." We've both developed a tolerance for and a psychological dependency on propaganda's certainty-stoking, justifying, and and self-worth generating narratives, social media is a propagandist's dream, desensitization and an increasing desire for the excitement felt from being immersed in the constant, and necessary stream of propaganda, how our addiction has allowed both traditional media and social media "influencers" to monetize the Outrage Industrial Complex, our role as retained ideological attorneys, and wishful thinking (and possibly disastrous effects) of suddenly eliminating 320-million people's propaganda narratives. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Grab a sammich for this one. And maybe a stiff drink. Hey! I never said this would be easy! 

 

ALSO: 

  • This is a triage situation; not a search for the "cure"
  • Disinformation bit me again!
  • Why we won't quit the informational drug
  • A possible path to empathy
  • The culture war is a War of Narratives
  • Chosen perspective becomes "personal truth"
  • Provoking shame as a "debate" tool: a boomerang
  • Social media "influencers": personal brands hocking a product while posing as "journalists"
  • The IDW: agitation propaganda

Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747

 

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#40 - Propaganda: Righteousness & Simplicity

Thursday Aug 15, 2019

#40 - Propaganda: Righteousness & Simplicity

Thursday Aug 15, 2019

Thursday Aug 15, 2019

The Propaganda opus resumes with Ellul's take on psychic "dissociation". Includes more on wordknapping, how righteous and simplistic propaganda narratives silence the self and numb natural cognitive dissonance, replacing reality with the electronic eyes of the "verbal universe", the effects of disconnecting a person's personal opinion in favor of an acceptable "public" opinion, and how opposing propagandas affect the target.

ALSO:

  • Democratic Socialists: as ridiculous during Occupy as at their "convention"
  • Aligned, Premeditated, and Secret Consciences: Individuality and Haidt's Elephant
  • Disconnecting thought & action  
  • Opposing propagandas: political abstention or fanaticism?
  • The IDW: Agitation Propaganda
  • Data Overload and the Defective Human Mind
  • Your congenial host and the Ideological Riptide
  • No one's immune. Not even you.

Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747

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#36 - Propaganda: Rationalization & The Religious Mind

Friday Aug 02, 2019

#36 - Propaganda: Rationalization & The Religious Mind

Friday Aug 02, 2019

Friday Aug 02, 2019

The conclusion of Ellul's "Psychological Crystallization" featuring the makeup of its slogans & how they're used to replace thought. Also, collective belief and obsessions, self-justification/rationalizations and how they spawn the self-righteous Puritan, the closing of the crystallized mind, propaganda's religious personality, and the bizarre media phenomenon: monetizing your mind rape. 

ALSO:

- Marianne Williamson: The New Trump?

- Introducing the father of American propaganda: Edward Bernays

- They know you better than you know yourself   

- Propaganda's side-effects and how they mirror the '60's definition of "neurosis"

 

Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747


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#35 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & Vicarious Atonement

Thursday Aug 01, 2019

#35 - Propaganda: Inseminating Zealots & Vicarious Atonement

Thursday Aug 01, 2019

Thursday Aug 01, 2019

Begins with a takedown of "white privilege", self-flagellation vs. self-interest, and the asinine/futile demands of our Social Vengeance Warriors; beware the boomerang, Moonbeam. From there, I move on to Ellul's dissection of how propaganda hijacks the political cultist's mind. The first of two parts, this episode focusses on the distinction between doctrine and critical though as well as homogenous thought, codifying social, political, and moral standards, exploiting latent pre-existing prejudices, and the power of implanted stereotypes & symbols used as triggering mechanisms. The elephant is strong in this one!  

 

Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747

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