I know some very smart normies and conservatives who would rather be persuaded to join the circus than read Q posts. They have mental road blocks, such as the fear of judgement by their spouses or peers.
So that's the challenge. I want to develop a strategy for cracking the toughest cookies. I don't mean dogmatic libs; they're lost for now. I mean someone who is rational and respects you enough to allow a 20 minute sales pitch but will only give you one shot.
So it would have to be a simple and strong argument or proof, yet still within the city limits of Normietown. This means no Angela Hitler, no locking up Obama and Hillary in Gitmo, no Satanic pedos.
I'm thinking I would start by explaining that Q is a propaganda campaign by Military Intelligence to undermine the criminality of the Clintons, Obama, and the deep state. I think many normies can accept that. Then I'd move on to some juicy FISA gate posts. Or a personal favorite: Blunt and Direct Time. The Lord's Prayer is also a good one.
Let me know your ideas on which normie-friendly proofs or arguments you think are the strongest to start with.
Thinking is hard work. The less you do of it, the harder it is, the less you do... mental laziness. The other side of the coin is -- at least in my experience -- teaching one's brain to think means it doesn't want to stop!
An interesting aside: I teach my horses to think through a situation, rather than simply react to the pressures of life by freezing or fleeing. It's fascinating to see them learn to break that automatic response. Their bodies actually soften. Which is my goal. We're both safer.
I'm actually comforted that my brain doesn't stop. I'd be humiliated to be this intellectually lazy. .
That's a really interesting comment regarding horses. A wonderful guy that I follow does amazing work with horses who have become difficult, unpredictable, dangerous, terrified, and who had been abused. He points to the differences in a horse's brain versus the human brain......the difference being that, because they are prey animals, their senses (eyes, ears) are connected directly to the motor part of the brain. Since they lack the frontal cortex, they do not have the opportunity for anything other than fight or flight, unlike the human brain. I am VERY interested in your experience with this subject.
Yes, horses are all about self-preservation. Tuis the fight or flight. And they sure dont want to fight. With humans they end up going into themselves when faced with people who don't understand their needs. "Desensitizing" became common in "natural horsemanship" and is commonly practised today. Essentially it requires the horse to internalize what worries them. Don't react! Which means the horse becomes numb. It also means that inevitably it's just too much. As Warwick Schiller says one to many rabbits and they go into full self preservation mode. Which humans interpret as being bad, and they get punished. The way I look at it is we bring horses into our human world. It's our responsibility to listen to them to help them proper in it. Which means as your friend says, give them other ways to deal with pressure -- pressure is how they see the world. I follow Josh Nichol who teaches how to help a horse learn to move linto pressure. Their knee jerk reaction to run being turned to look to their human. Relational Horsemanship. Your friend seems to have found this way too.
The peace and friendliness that he leaves in his wake touches my heart so deeply. What a blessing these folks are.