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Reactance
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James Lindsay: There's a concept in political warfare and psychological warfare that I want to talk about called reactants. The usual way that you're going to encounter reactants, the feeling is that this is really bad and we must pick a side. So what you'll see is a lot of political warfare narratives, in other words propaganda being issued by the Marxist left. And there are valid uses of reactants which is when you actually are going to lose a genuine freedom. But then there are these woke manipulations and reactionary manipulations that lead you to believe that you're losing a freedom and get you to react against it.
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