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*An anti-woke podcast focusing on the invasive collectivist species and the widespread confluence of money, boutique ”news” propaganda, psychology, and hyper-connective tech: The Social Media Disease. Toddzilla X @ YouTube.

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*An anti-woke podcast focusing on the invasive collectivist species and the widespread confluence of money, boutique ”news” propaganda, psychology, and hyper-connective tech: The Social Media Disease. Toddzilla X @ YouTube.

    #127 - The Power of Patriotism, Cannibal Leftists, Our Badass Ancestors

    #127 - The Power of Patriotism, Cannibal Leftists, Our Badass Ancestors

    Orwell wrote that international socialism is powerless against the power of simple patriotism. It's a simple concept that radicalized leftists are helpless to understand. Before the secular Cult of Wokentology can erect American temples, patriotism must be crippled. This is why basic American pride has been under systematic agitprop attack for decades. Traveling the third world: Todd articulates how, rather than creating another liberal "global citizen", it instead ignited his steadily building, and unexpected, patriotism.  
    Also:
    How conservatives could easily win over Latinos
    Tribal politics and collectivist globalism are mutually exclusive
    Identity politics and the American Indians' demise
    How failing to unite against the clear and present threat both doomed Native Americans and led to Hitler
    Wokentology's narcissistic time bomb: a rare message genuine of anti-woke hope!
    Communing with the ghosts of my colonizing ancestors at Ft. Michilimackinac
    Fragile souls sent spiraling into a mental health crisis by "misgendering" pronouns and uncomfortable ideas demand that we be ashamed of, and apologize for, our very badass ancestors? Ha! No. 
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    #126 - On Tribalism: Unity Via Division, Vichy Whites, Being the Lone Chimp

    #126 - On Tribalism: Unity Via Division, Vichy Whites, Being the Lone Chimp

    As with propaganda, Todd's thoughts on tribalism have evolved in the last 9-years. It's a trait, not a defect. Evolution burrowed tribalism deep into the human psyche for a reason and it's going nowhere. That makes it a potent force that needs to be more clearly understood. 
    Segment 1: 
    Sebastian Junger and his book Tribe
    Tribalism and social evolution
    The doe eyed folly of "anti-tribalism" splinter factions
    Unity Via Division, huh? Go home, you're drunk
    The Fantastical Cult of Utopian Diversity: do diverse super societies have a shelf life?
    Vichy Whites: Wokentology's moneyed bourgeois assuming they'll be judged as "one of the good ones" 
    Careful of those reprisals
    Segment 2 (30:00)
    Tribalism offers the protection of the herd: physical, ideological, even rhetorical
    The accidental consequences of actually being a lone independent thinking chimp
    Tribal politics, agitation and integration propaganda, and "revolution"
    Collectivism vs Individualism: The invasive species attacking the foundational and cohesive myth
    Revolutionary destabilization is the goal
    Extremist Roulette: the scapegoated majority choosing their own tribe's self-interest
    Mention this episode and receive half off any anti-depressant! Thanks, Dementia Joe! 
     
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    #125 - Institutional Hospice & The Death of 9/12

    #125 - Institutional Hospice & The Death of 9/12

    In this short episode, Todd discusses the near complete loss of trust in American institutions, particularly the media, and the result: informational anarchy. What filth is left free to slither into the trust vacuum? 
     
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    #124 - Where’s Rock Bottom? Killing The Come Together Fairytale

    #124 - Where’s Rock Bottom? Killing The Come Together Fairytale

    Starting with a discussion about painfully reaching rock bottom and its role in addiction and recovery, Todd applies it to the dopamine drip of technology-driven tribal politics and how he and others wrongly assumed Donald was the tribal floor. (13:52) The Left's application of Newton's Third Law of Extremism: the Green Tea Party and how, with the media's deification of The Holy Counterfeiter, it mutated into an invasive Ideological Insurgency using scapegoats to aggressively attack American history, institutions, and core values. To colonize anywhere, you must first exterminate foundational myths and cohesive narratives, the established religion, in order to replace it with your own. There’s a reason Latin America is Catholic, after all.
     
    Also:
    The Sopranos as social anthropology
    What if there is no floor and rock bottom instead hits like Chicxulub? 
    In the failing era of Unity Via Division, selling unity knockoffs is a good dollar
    Can we just dispense with the infanitile "Let's Come Together" stuff? 
    No? Show your work!
    The "need to believe" is the death of reason
     
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    #123 - Inappropriate Honesty, Truth Riders, That Which Must Remain Unsaid

    #123 - Inappropriate Honesty, Truth Riders, That Which Must Remain Unsaid

    In the continuation of the last episode, Todd re-explores his oft-ignored Path to Empathy, the DIKW pyramid, and data Overload before exploring religion's real purpose and offering our pompous atheist friends the back of his rhetorical hand. From that joyful and uplifting summit, he moves on to question how woke parents can sacrifice their own children to a foreign ideological god. 
     
    Also:
    Introducing The Desert of the Why!
    We know what legislative riders are. What about "truth" riders? 
    The one thing in news, information, and tech that must remain unspoken.
    Why climate change hysterics are misguided and a waste of time.
    How the stupid cliques we form as kids flare up like herpes for the rest of our lives.
    Todd's new Gatekeeper disconnect.
    Chasing Che. 
     
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    • 44 min
    #122 - Intellectual Tribalism & Gladiators in the Virtual Coliseum

    #122 - Intellectual Tribalism & Gladiators in the Virtual Coliseum

    After a brief introduction to metacognition, Todd delves back into how people are born as storytellers, not rational truth seekers, and how the storytelling ape probably evolved out of a need for simple explanation and meaning. Also, why are experts in detecting the "enemy's" bullish*t but so bad at sniffing out our own team's? After reflecting on the Facebook Wars, have we become organic pieces of agitation propaganda ourselves? Worse, can innate tribalism be exploited by agitprop-fueled hatred? Last question: gee, ya think? 
     
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