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66. James Lindsay on Psychological Warfare

You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist

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The Power of Surrounding Yourself on All Sides

In a recent newsletter, one chapter of Momster Liberty put a quote from Hitler eluding to the fact that there's this kind of totalitarian takeover of education. This creates a very toxic and divisive environment inside the group. They get you to doubt yourself and then you start to change yourself. And so what the struggle session does is it creates that psychological pressure. You're surrounded on all sides and my bad person, did I mess up? My own friends are down here, they just want the pressure to go away. That's why I say it's like selling your soul."

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