Cognitive warfare and the battle to be you

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Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Conformity​

Jun 25, 2025
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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.

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

 

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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

 

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Against Self-Optimization

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

www.plough.com

 

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The Psychology of War​

Jul 12, 2025
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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.

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Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life​

Jul 30, 2025
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The defense against slop and brainrot

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

pauljun.substack.com

 

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Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society​

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How to Stop Wasting Your Life - Carl Jung as Therapist​

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An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!

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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...

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Carl Jung - How Life Changes After 40​

Nov 3, 2025
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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

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The Psychology of Fairy Tales​

Nov 18, 2025
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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…

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Don’t Let People Rain On Your Success​

 

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Escape Mediocrity - How to Stop Wasting your Life​

Dec 1, 2025
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You Are The Sum Of The Choices You Make In Life​

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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

 

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

Dec 11, 2025
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Why We Fear Our Highest Potential - The Jonah Complex​

Dec 30, 2025
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Jonah complex - Wikipedia

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

Jan 7, 2026
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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…

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Why We Sabotage Ourselves - The Psychology of Self-Handicapping​

Jan 22, 2026
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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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Carl Jung - Are Demons Real?​

Feb 10, 2026
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The Fallacy Fallacy

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

www.persuasion.community

 

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

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.

 

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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

 

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

Mar 9, 2026
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