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Social Media Creates Fake Wars Stop Emotional Manipulation

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"They're manufacturing a sense of life and death. When it's not — we're not there. Bombs are not dropping." Boone on the fake urgency social media creates — making you feel like you're in a war zone when you're sitting on your couch. That manufactured emotional state is the weapon. It cuts your critical thinking and makes you act on fear instead of facts.

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They're manufacturing a sense of life and death. When it's not, we're not there. Bombs are not dropping. Okay. We do not have, you know, adversarial aircraft over our skies that are doing, you know, that's not happening. There's nobody's running down your street, you know, calling in artillery on your home. That's not happening. You're not in a life or death situation. You just feel like you are. So we've got to pull back that polarization because that goes to bad places, especially with the psychological operations. If I can get you to polarize and then I can get you to travel eyes, well, then I'm going to pull you into dehumanize and now you're going to start killing people. So we've got to dial that whole thing way, way back because it leads to bad places. Your friend has somebody who has gone into this polarized state of mind, the, the manufactured sense of life and death. And they're actually looking at your friend, like, they are responsible for their potential death. Yeah. Yeah. Way, way, totally contrived way out of line, but you'll never be able to convince them of that because once you get to that polarized state, critical thinking goes out the window. You're emotional. That's why I say protect your mind, control your emotions. You control your emotions, look at things critically and then decide, is this something you want to dedicate your emotions to? It has to be. Yeah. And my, you know, it was interesting because my friend was just gutted because she doesn't really even like, you know, she, she doesn't even talk about politics that much. I think I don't, I don't even know how the mentor concluded where she was. Maybe she had liked something on social media. Maybe, you know what I'm saying? That there was something that this person noticed that she did. And I think that they actually extrapolated meaning out of it that wasn't even there. Right? It was a coincidental thing that just the timing of it, I think led this person to this conclusion. And it was interesting because it was, I think it took a few months to build up. And so, you know, they never approached my friend, never made a comment. And then out of the blue, sent the letter boom relationship over because of this and this. And, and it just, it, you know, she was gobsmacked really. And there was, there was no room for dialogue. There was no room for understanding because of what this. The poll had already been made. There's not going to be conversation. That person is looking at your friend. Like they are an instrument there to do that. Yeah. Based upon. Yeah, literally Hitler. And I was, and I was trying to, I was trying to explain it to her, right? Because this is like, this is not her area. I mean, like, again, she's busy, she's running a family, you know, she's running a business. She's like, just not spending that much time on social media. And I had to walk her through and say, this is what happened to this person. This is how they got there. And unfortunately, like you said, there's, you know, that toothpaste isn't going back in the tube, especially not You.

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