How do you break people out of the psyop mindset?
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It isn't about "facts." It isn't about "persuasion." It isn't about "argument," or "debate," or "reason."
That's not how the psyop got rooted in their brain systems.
The psyop rode in on EMOTION. On AMYGDALA HIJACKS.
https://www.psychologistworld.com/emotion/emotion-memory-psychology
This has been known for 100 years, and has been systematically used by the Mindf%ckers in all media, in PR, in advertising. Sex, fear, anger, pride, greed--all the negative, ugly emotions...that lay down neural traces in a way no calm, cool, reasoned discourse could, nor would want to.
You can't argue people out of their emotionally imprinted beliefs.
At the same time RFK is WRONG about "orthodoxy being impervious to external influence." The robust existence of Perennialist/Traditionalist metaphysics/faith is evidence of that. Many orthodox believers have reached beyond their belief structures to the upstream Source of belief. If you've never read Rene Guenon, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Julius Evola, and others, I highly recommend it.
This is why Stoic self control is so important. To be aware of your reactions, to remove them from the control-saddle of the horses that will drag your thinking and reactions into the Swamp. Every major religious tradition, both orthodox and syncretic, teaches that self-command, self-control, displacement of the ego, are essential to approaching the Mind of God.
It is the Anti-Mind of the Adversary that seeks to turn people into shrieky deranged reactive robots. And, alas, this is very much the model that "both" parties have used for at least 60 years now in political advertising and campaigning.