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ally everything you suspected was true about everything. Just about everything. It was all true in some form. So every time the conservatives have this I got you this time feeling what always happens? We've been through this before right? Ah we got you this time. Now that the truth has come out watch what happens when the people on the left learn the truth. It never happens does it? There's just…
← Previous segment →view and somehow they can incorporate all the counter factuals and still go along. It's like serious implied or is sort of an imposed mental illness. It's like a mental illness that's imposed on them from the outside by the narratives.
I wonder if you could have narrative poisoning. Yeah I think I'm going to invent a term: narrative poisoning. If the narrative which is not true causes you to have a physical reaction which is true then you have narrative poisoning. Narrative poisoning is different from just believing something that's not true. Believing something that's not true is sort of daily life. We're all believing stuff that's not true. But if you buy into a narrative and it makes you sick you have narrative poisoning. You don't have you're not sick because of reality because that's not what a narrative is. Narrative poisoning.
So I think that the Twitter executives actually had narrative poisoning and they were acting out partly on mental health issues. Let me now excuse the behavior of all the Twitter professionals. They were operating on a PTSD which they gave themselves. It was self-induced PTSD. They had narrative po
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isoning, TDS, and they acted on their mental health. They acted to reduce their mental health problems and they used Twitter like it was a pharmaceutical drug that if they tweaked it just right they could reduce their mental health issues. And so they did. So they did. How much do you love that they use Twitter like a pharmaceutical to improve their mental health? That actually happened right? Th…
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