Neutrality Studies Ex-MSM Journalist Reveals: The West Is HOOKED To Its Own Propaganda | Felix Marquardt
Nov 16, 2025
Felix Marquardt is a former mainstream media journalist and recovering drug addict who founded the vulnerability-based social network, Black Elephant. He dives deep into how propaganda is like addiction, with media creating a drug-like response in its audience. Felix discusses the importance of recognizing this addiction and suggests ways to break free by diversifying news sources and embracing vulnerability. He calls for the West to listen more, confront its colonial past, and highlights the potential for transformative change through collective pain.
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Propaganda Behaves Like Addiction
- Felix Marquardt connects Jacques Ellul's view of propaganda to addiction, arguing awareness alone doesn't free you from it.
- He shows propaganda acts as social cement in technological societies that people crave for meaning.
High-Functioning Addict In Elite Circles
- Felix describes his recovery after 25 years of daily drug use and how he once denied being an addict while advising elites.
- He realized the high of power in elite circles mirrored the chemical high of cocaine.
Efficiency Empties Meaning, Fuels Propaganda
- Placing efficiency first in technological societies strips meaning and creates a hunger for simple propaganda narratives.
- That hunger makes people crave clear answers that propaganda supplies.
