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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 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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It is also as if Donald Trump is selling the idea to Americans that we need to get by with only 2 toys, "belt tightening", for who? So Billionaires can have even more money than everyday people?
We have such a massive set of literacy, comprehension, understanding problems in USA society that people don't even get that the whole reason people voted for Donald Trump's magical thinking is because the wealthiest 1% of the population has been getting a bigger and bigger part of the economy while everyday people who are not landlords, brand owners, corporation owners, asset holders - are getting mentally manipulated with "wealth televangelism" from above. The wealthiest people in the nation are hiring Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk to use media systems to educate everyday people to admire people like Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Donald Trump as wealth-lords! The wealthy are punching down with their army of lawmakers, psychologists and psychiatrists to manipulate everyday people into handing over power and wealth!
“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