Cognitive warfare and the battle to be you

searcher · Jun 25, 2025

Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Conformity

Jun 25, 2025
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12:45

searcher · Jun 29, 2025

You can't do your own research without doing your homework first

Here in 2025, many of us claim to come to our own conclusions by doing our own research. Here's why we're mostly deluding ourselves.

bigthink.com

searcher · Jun 29, 2025

Why The Man Who Doesn’t Chase Money Is Society’s Greatest Threat

searcher · Jul 1, 2025

Jun 30, 2025 #GlorificationOfStupidity #CulturalDecline #Psychology
The Glorification of Stupidity – Why Modern Culture Rewards the Shallow
From reality TV to viral nonsense, modern culture no longer values wisdom—it rewards noise, narcissism, and surface-level thinking.

Why Modern Culture Rewards the Shallow

searcher · Jul 4, 2025

searcher · Jul 5, 2025

Against Self-Optimization

The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.

www.plough.com

searcher · Jul 12, 2025

The Psychology of War

Jul 12, 2025
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20:30

searcher · Jul 17, 2025

searcher · Jul 20, 2025

The Self That Never Was

We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.

hedgehogreview.com

searcher · Jul 20, 2025

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Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life

Jul 30, 2025
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10:55

searcher · Sep 7, 2025

The defense against slop and brainrot

What I am doing to prevent myself from stagnating and rotting.

pauljun.substack.com

searcher · Sep 7, 2025

Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society

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14:37

searcher · Sep 12, 2025

How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist

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12:53

searcher · Oct 11, 2025

An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!

theshadowedarchive.substack.com

searcher · Oct 11, 2025

Post in thread 'Contrarian news & views'

Oct 11, 2025

Just finished this. Thought it was pretty good, parts made me smile. Watched it on youtube. The replies below the vid are good. Posting for entertainment.

How To Be A REAL Gentleman: Why YouTubers & Influencers Are WRONG

Sep 22, 2025 #wristwatchcheck #HowTo #gentleman
In the over a decade I've been on YouTube, this has to be one of the most requested subjects from my audience: How does one become a true gentleman? I've put off making this video for so long, because I truly didn't feel qualified, but I've come to the age where I've been around the block a few times...

searcher · Nov 6, 2025

Carl Jung - How Life Changes After 40

Nov 3, 2025
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12:40

searcher · Nov 15, 2025

How to tolerate annoying things | Psyche Guides

Hassles are part of life, but the way we react often makes them worse. ACT skills can help you handle them with greater ease

psyche.co

searcher · Nov 20, 2025

The Psychology of Fairy Tales

Nov 18, 2025
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16:53

searcher · Nov 21, 2025

The Madness of Crowds: Herd Thinking and Hard Lessons for Off-Grid Life - Off The Grid News

When the Herd Starts Running, Even Smart People Get Flattened Picture a campfire snapping under a wind-raked sky, the Milky Way stretching overhead like a bright river in the dark. Out here, where the nearest streetlamp is twenty miles of gravel and timber away, clear thinking isn’t some fancy…

www.offthegridnews.com

searcher · Nov 27, 2025

Don’t Let People Rain On Your Success

searcher · Dec 2, 2025

Escape Mediocrity - How to Stop Wasting your Life

Dec 1, 2025
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11:50

searcher · Dec 2, 2025

You Are The Sum Of The Choices You Make In Life

15:23

pmbug · Dec 7, 2025

I found an account on X that posts feel good stories of the human spirit. I have no idea if the stories are real or fiction, but they are inspirational if you are looking for that sort of thing:

https://x.com/MrPitbull07

searcher · Dec 15, 2025

Why Weak People Create Hard Times - The Biological Decline of the West

Dec 11, 2025
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16:08

searcher · Dec 30, 2025

Why We Fear Our Highest Potential - The Jonah Complex

Dec 30, 2025
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8:34

Jonah complex - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

searcher · Jan 7, 2026

The Psychology of Online Haters - Nietzsche's "Poisonous Flies"

Jan 7, 2026
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11:22

searcher · Jan 11, 2026

Why Smart People Hold Tenaciously To Terrible Ideas… And Then Justify The Errors By Labeling Them As Reason, Logic, Or Science - Off The Grid News

It’s Never About Facts… It’s Always About Filters Most people swear they want the truth. They say it out loud. They type it into comment boxes. They put it in their bios. But watch what happens the moment a belief they depend on gets questioned. The tone changes. The…

www.offthegridnews.com

searcher · Jan 15, 2026

searcher · Jan 22, 2026

Why We Sabotage Ourselves - The Psychology of Self-Handicapping

Jan 22, 2026
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10:58

searcher · Feb 1, 2026

Amathia: The Blindness of the Soul in an Age of Knowledge

“Amathia survives because it promises safety from change, while knowledge insists we evolve.” – MJ Martin Introduction This week, I sat in a bar on Thursday night to have dinner before bed an…

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searcher · Feb 10, 2026

Carl Jung - Are Demons Real?

Feb 10, 2026
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11:05

searcher · Feb 28, 2026

The Fallacy Fallacy

Why you shouldn't go looking for faulty reasoning everywhere.

www.persuasion.community

pmbug · Mar 5, 2026

Lou Holtz (famous college football coach) passed away. I think this is germane to this thread:

Grok said:
This poem, titled "What Will Today Bring" (or "A New Day"), was written by Dr. Heartsill Wilson. Lou Holtz had his Notre Dame players memorize and recite it daily.

searcher · Mar 7, 2026

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: The Power and Pleasure of Delayed Gratification

Delayed gratification can help improve your life and make it more enjoyable. Here's how.

www.artofmanliness.com

searcher · Mar 10, 2026

What If the “Crazy” Ones Are Right? - Conspiracy Theories

Mar 9, 2026
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15:28

searcher · Mar 23, 2026

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Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Conformity

Why The Man Who Doesn’t Chase Money Is Society’s Greatest Threat

The Psychology of War

Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life

Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society

How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist

How To Be A REAL Gentleman: Why YouTubers & Influencers Are WRONG

Carl Jung - How Life Changes After 40

The Psychology of Fairy Tales

Don’t Let People Rain On Your Success

Escape Mediocrity - How to Stop Wasting your Life

You Are The Sum Of The Choices You Make In Life

Why Weak People Create Hard Times - The Biological Decline of the West

Why We Fear Our Highest Potential - The Jonah Complex

Why We Sabotage Ourselves - The Psychology of Self-Handicapping

Carl Jung - Are Demons Real?

What If the “Crazy” Ones Are Right? - Conspiracy Theories