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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951
Leadership of Nations / Leadership of Cults / Leadership of Religions / Leadership by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.
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Fuck that nazi.
Elon Musk in year 2024 and year 2025 is first and foremost a Twitter user. A Tweet-length-thinking reactionary mindset promoter. Who reduces all complex discussion in the United States of America into Twittering-behaviors, Tweeting-values. Elon Musk knew that the core to controlling the population was to do as much absurd political antics, copying what Surkov in Russia was doing in year 2013, copying what Donald Trump does with short-length message Truth Social values and thinking and Twitter-reaction thinking.
Elon Musk has so many people who compulsively adopt his style of thinking and use of social machines, it is a Twitter-Thinking Nation, United States of Twitter Thinking 2025 social machine ideas and White House. Horrific.
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“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is 'banal' and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil