Thread by @EduEngineer

#TheInformationWars Part VIII: Parasocial Dunbar Hacking explains the #mindvirus infecting all the #zombies we're surrounded by.

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In the Prussian educational paradigm that now dominates the modern world, children are trained not by their families, while interacting with and growing trusting bonds with their neighbors. The process of tribal formation is replaced with a handful of authorities,...

same age social relationships, and parasocial proxy relationships—the people on our magic electronic picture boxes. And in the end, young adults pop out of the other side of this machine suffering a pernicious form of Stockholm Syndrome.

They even believe it's what is best for them. After all, their leaders, whom they've likely never met, tell them so. They'd be unhappy to discover the illusion.