New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 62
There is a psychological phenomenon called “reactance” that is triggered when someone is convinced they’re likely to lose liberties and freedoms they currently enjoy. It’s a powerful effect that motivates action and forces people to take a side, usually against the perceived threat to their liberty. Woke manipulators know this and use it frequently. They explain that their enemies, usually members of a free society, are “fascists” who want to “limit the rights” of some vulnerable group. The goal is to trigger activation through reactance to join up in solidarity with the threatened group. You’ll notice Leftists do this all the time, by the way. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains this form of activism and how it works to polarize and activate useful idiots in the Leftist base. Join him to learn what it looks like.
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The odd thing about this particular concept is that I consider this term already “in use” as a technical term in Electrical Engineering. I have run across several terms like this, which I consider a form of obfuscation through the appropriation of a technical term that already has a technical meaning (often in science or engineering). Other examples are “feedback” and “quantum jump.” I am also aware of more esoteric borrowings, such as “PTS.”
I consider this part of the push to popularize the New Age movement as the more “spiritual” replacement for more traditional attitudes towards human psychology. It is nearly as unworkable as earlier theories, but includes practices like Meditation that make people think they are “connecting to Source” or something like that.
This term (a fairly recent addition to the field), though considered a part of Psychology, appears to be more appropriate in the context of sociology, as it has to do with social control. Someone interested in social control wants to find messages that are effective but minimize the amount of reactance. I know this concept as “HE&R” or Human Emotion and Reaction. In this version of it’s use, however, the message is designed to maximize HE&R against one side of an issue, then minimize it, or create a want or a need, for the other side of the issue. It’s a one-two punch all wrapped up in a single narrative.