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    Social Norming

    A motivating factor to do something based on the belief that everyone else is doing no matter how much you think that you make your own decisions, see sheeple.

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    Sheeple

    People who refuse to be sovereign individuals but instead follow the collective group identity to their demise.

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    The Invisible Gorilla

    The famous selective attention experiment to demonstrate that we pay attention to a limited array of all available sensory information which is filtered and prioritized according to its importance.  In the experiment, participants are asked to watch a video in which two teams are passing the ball and asked to count how many times the […]

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    Century of the Self

    Three-part documentary about the beginning of public relations in the 20th century, and how proponents used Freud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the unconscious mind to control and manipulate the masses. Century of the Self video

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    Tribalism

    The state of being organized by certain attitude and practice of harboring strong feelings of bonds or loyalty to one’s group, regardless of race or ethnicity.

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    Pyrrhic Victory

    A  victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Winning a Pyrrhic victory takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress, also see Stolen Elections of 2020.

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