Free Your Mind: The must-read expert guide on how to identify techniques to influence you and how to resist them

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Sosiaalinen manipulointi on ubiikkia ja jatkuvaa, ja sellaista hyödynnetään taitavasti poliittisiin tarkoituksiin. Words can be twisted to make you think either "Yes, that's what I want" or "Ugh, I don't want that", for the same thing. This subject could have been a perfect moment to address societal pressures and how that can affect trans people in many ways but instead described it as brainwashing people to become trans while ignoring so many more societal pressures to conform to binary expectations. Laura Dodsworth is an author, journalist, photographer and filmmaker and has been described as a ‘latter-day punchy Cassandra’ and a ‘Slayer of Taboos’. Limiting screen time, being careful to avoid watching soap operas, remembering to not let down your guard when watching films, and fleeing from pornography and other such forms of decadence are also essential steps to keeping one's mind unpolluted.

Explained in very simple terms using some helpful analogies and metaphors I found this book filled with insights and useful strategies to counter some of the methods used to manipulate people. Moni miettiikin jo somepostauksia tehdessään, että ne ovat ”algoritmisystävällisiä” ja etteivät ne loitonna itseään muusta samankaltaisten harmaasta yhteisöstä sisältöineen ja tunnisteineen. All together a humane and timely work which deserves to be read by anyone who values free speech, free thought and freedom.They feature conversations with professionals in mind control, such as monks and magicians, illuminating their dishonest methods.

As an academic who has also been an activist, he wants to replace the idea that thought is about privately ‘interpreting the world’, as suggested by Rodin’s Thinker, with the idea that its purpose is to change the world and that ‘the freest thought is social, not individual’. I've read Laura Dodsworth's earlier book A State of Fear which was excellent so I thought this would be interesting too. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to preserve or regain mental autonomy and resist the subterranean influences and nudges of companies, organisations and governments. Sovereignty over one’s mind is more vital than ever as the means of control proliferate in the modern digital age but - like seeing how the magician performs his trick - once the techniques are exposed and we start to recognise them, we can’t be fooled again. Many psychological techniques, often covert, can be used to impinge on free thought, including distraction, confusion, pressure to compete and conform, and ‘nudging’, or the preferential presentation of one option over another.Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then? During the pandemic, governments worldwide deployed sophisticated behavioral and psychological techniques. Jo roomalainen filosofi Seneca ymmärsi, että kärsimyksemme on enemmänkin oman mielikuvituksemme muokkaamaa kuin mielenulkoisen maailman, siis maailman, jossa elämme. Mediaviihteen suurkuluttajan on hyvä olla tietoinen, että usein hauskoissa hupailuohjelmissa ja TikTok-videoissa on monenlaisia vaikuttamiskeinoja ja propagandapyrkimyksiä. Previously lead psychologist at Cambridge Analytica, he is now a part-time lecturer and runs several data consultancies.

Monille tutun lastensarjan Teletappien on väitetty sisältäneen genderpropagandaa antenneineen ja värisymboleineen. Their book offers as an engaging field guide for navigating the information battlefield and revealing the covert strategies employed to sway our opinions and behavior. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic , as well as a trilogy of books about the body. If this subject matter was made part of the school curriculum, future generations and ultimately humanity would be in a much better place.Her latest book is A State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This book will appeal to libertarians who would prefer not to take personal responsibility to address inconvenient truths.