Leo D.M.J. Aurini - January 13, 2026


Cluster B Capture-Collapse Theory


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48 minutes

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368

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Summary

Cluster B Capture Collapse Theory: How Institutions are Captured, Subverted, and Destroyed by Abusive Actors. In this audio version, I describe a phenomenon I see occurring across multiple institutions in our present social milieu. It involves Cluster Bs, psychopaths, narcissists, and histrionics, capturing various institutions, and then driving them to collapse. Add in some nuance, and by the end I hope to have provided an explanation of the what and why of our present apocalypse.


Transcript

00:00:00.800 Cluster B Capture Collapse Theory. How Institutions are Captured, Subverted, and Destroyed by Abusive Actors.
00:00:09.060 Please visit my Medium article for all of the links, which are not provided, in this audio version.
00:00:18.440 I'd like to present a phenomenon I see occurring across multiple institutions in our present social milieu.
00:00:23.720 You can guess the broad strokes from the title.
00:00:26.340 It involves Cluster Bs, psychopaths, narcissists, histrionics, and borderlines, capturing various institutions, and then driving them to collapse.
00:00:37.840 Add in some nuance, and by the end I hope to have provided an explanation of the what and why of our present apocalypse.
00:00:45.960 Too strong of a word?
00:00:48.160 Apocalypse is just the Greek word for the Great Revealing.
00:00:52.380 Take a look around you, as the tide goes out, and you'll find out who's not wearing pants.
00:00:58.300 My hope is that this analysis will bolster your hearts.
00:01:01.100 We still have a dark winter ahead of us, but the revelation that our leaders are corrupt and incompetent is ultimately for the good.
00:01:07.900 They have been playing their games covertly for years, leading to the growing subculture of people questioning the narrative.
00:01:13.560 These days, it's growing increasingly overt, and the cracks in the edifice are starting to show.
00:01:18.700 To quote my colleague, Quintus Cordelius,
00:01:22.420 This should make you happy.
00:01:24.420 The great leveling is happening.
00:01:26.420 It means that any man who can prove his mettle can make something of himself.
00:01:30.800 You only need character, a soul, and an undying hatred of moral corruption.
00:01:35.900 You don't need money, luxury goods, or multiple passports.
00:01:40.440 End quote.
00:01:40.900 There has, of course, been a lot of cross-pollination, which helped lead me to these ideas.
00:01:48.580 I'll be providing links to noteworthy examples throughout this piece.
00:01:51.840 For now, let's begin by discussing what exactly a Cluster B personality disorder actually is.
00:01:58.620 The Cluster B, a Predator in a Skin Suit
00:02:02.100 It needs to be emphasized that a personality disorder is not the same thing as a mental disorder.
00:02:09.140 The former is a distinct subset of the latter.
00:02:12.920 Mental disorders cover a wide variety of mental ailments.
00:02:16.060 Generalized depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, oppositional defiant disorder.
00:02:20.800 We all suffer periods of poor mental health,
00:02:22.840 and while these may occasionally cause the sufferer to act out in an antisocial manner,
00:02:27.640 they're curable ailments, which are deserving of sympathy.
00:02:30.320 When we discuss personality disorders,
00:02:33.440 we are not talking about your friend who is going through a rough breakup,
00:02:37.080 or who's snapping at people because they're overworked.
00:02:40.120 Personality disorders are a subset of innate and maladaptive patterns of cognition.
00:02:45.420 Cluster A includes the eccentric disorders,
00:02:48.300 paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal.
00:02:51.160 People diagnosed with these are no more dangerous than anybody else,
00:02:54.320 though they may have trouble with normal human interactions.
00:02:56.840 For instance, think of the character Dale Dribble from King of the Hill.
00:03:01.460 A paranoid, obviously.
00:03:03.360 For schizotypal, I can think of no better example than the artist David Firth.
00:03:07.760 I have no idea if he's been diagnosed as such,
00:03:10.200 but his artwork has a distinctly schizotypal flavor to it.
00:03:14.260 As for schizoid, think of the weaponized autism of 4chan.
00:03:18.800 It's not actually autism.
00:03:20.680 Or Nikola Tesla.
00:03:21.560 What you should note is that all of these individuals cogitate in distinctly erratic manners from the general population,
00:03:29.300 but that doesn't mean that they're necessarily wrong in what they see,
00:03:32.860 or that they want to be fixed.
00:03:35.140 The Cluster A's might be maladaptive in a generalized sense,
00:03:38.560 but they also seem to fill an evolutionary niche.
00:03:41.700 They're humanity's mad geniuses, or prophets and shamans,
00:03:45.360 helping the neurotypicals break out of a toxic heuristic.
00:03:50.560 Cluster C's are the anxious or fearful disorders.
00:03:54.040 They include avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive.
00:03:57.940 While their behavior is pervasive and maladaptive,
00:04:00.640 unlike the Cluster A's, they will generally seek out treatment.
00:04:03.920 These disorders are often instilled by an abusive childhood,
00:04:06.900 and while they harm the sufferer,
00:04:08.600 they don't generally lead to antisocial or abusive actions.
00:04:12.780 Cluster C's are very deserving of sympathy,
00:04:15.360 and therapy can often prove effective.
00:04:18.520 Finally, we have the Cluster B's.
00:04:21.620 They are the Narcissist, the Psychopath, the Histrionic, and the Borderline.
00:04:27.140 In the past, I've compared them to broken versions of the four classical humors.
00:04:31.640 The Narcissist is a broken sanguine.
00:04:34.400 Instead of being cheerful and gregarious, if insincere,
00:04:37.440 he instead spins endless lies and recruits a cult following to believe them.
00:04:42.860 The Psychopath is a broken choleric.
00:04:45.360 Instead of being ordered and exacting, if a bit bossy,
00:04:49.140 he's instead an endless manipulator.
00:04:51.620 The Histrionic is a broken phlegmatic.
00:04:54.840 Instead of being a stable supporting element,
00:04:57.260 though sometimes a little too nice,
00:04:59.520 she subtly starts fights between those around her,
00:05:03.340 always the eye of the storm.
00:05:04.640 The Borderline is a broken melancholic.
00:05:07.420 Rather than being the private and gentle artist who sometimes takes herself too seriously,
00:05:14.420 she's the eternal victim who demands endless affect.
00:05:18.000 Positive, negative, it doesn't matter.
00:05:20.320 It's impossible to overstate how dangerous these people are.
00:05:25.100 In his book, People of the Lie, The Hope for Healing Human Evil,
00:05:30.020 psychologist M. Scott Peck relates how he went from atheist to Catholic
00:05:33.980 as a response to his study of cluster bees.
00:05:37.080 The depth of evil he observed required a supernatural explanation.
00:05:42.720 I myself began studying these people in depth over a decade ago
00:05:45.980 after suffering physical, sexual, and legal abuse at the hands of a Borderline,
00:05:50.580 and was likewise influenced in the direction of religion.
00:05:53.920 While there's no scientific definition of the human soul,
00:05:57.300 in most people there exists a spark which seeks out the good,
00:06:01.500 the beautiful, and the true,
00:06:03.660 even if they don't go about it in the right manner.
00:06:06.540 With cluster bees, this seems to be wholly absent.
00:06:09.660 Their behavior matches that of a sentient piece of clockwork
00:06:13.100 which is devoted to the ugly, the profane, and the cruel.
00:06:19.200 But nonetheless, it is a piece of clockwork made out of the pieces of a human psyche.
00:06:23.920 So we can make some useful statements about these people
00:06:26.320 whether or not they actually qualify for the label of human.
00:06:31.420 Let us consider the argument that the four types
00:06:33.940 are just different versions of the same thing.
00:06:37.640 In considering cluster A and C, this seems to make sense.
00:06:41.760 Those two clusters seem to involve a core type manifesting in different manners.
00:06:46.960 So it would make sense that we'd see this in cluster B as well.
00:06:51.360 And if my theory about their correlation to the four humors is correct,
00:06:55.040 then the only true differences are relative in nature.
00:06:59.260 The narcissist is more extroverted than the histrionic,
00:07:02.460 and the psychopath is more process-focused than the borderline.
00:07:06.200 But these differences only matter based upon the social milieu they find themselves in.
00:07:11.320 The kid who's considered introverted by the drama club
00:07:14.000 might be the charismatic leader of the chess club.
00:07:17.520 Fundamentally, there's a single cogitative mechanism underlying all of them.
00:07:21.820 And if they're all the same,
00:07:24.740 then let's consider how each one manifests in a cogitative disorder.
00:07:29.460 The narcissist is typically viewed as having high self-regard.
00:07:33.440 But this is more than the arrogance of a regular person
00:07:36.020 who might behave with an annoying sense of entitlement.
00:07:39.700 The narcissist feels that they have a right to everything on the earth.
00:07:43.040 Attention, money, sex.
00:07:44.880 And while they may have to engage in social manipulations to achieve these ends,
00:07:49.680 they're not actually obligated to exchange value for value in any deeper sense.
00:07:55.300 The psychopath endlessly manipulates.
00:07:58.640 Apparently for their own gain.
00:08:00.880 If they're stupid, they'll become a robber and a rapist.
00:08:04.220 If they're smart, they'll become a CEO who bankrupts the company just because he can.
00:08:08.960 But unlike your normal person, who can often be manipulative for the sake of achieving their own ends,
00:08:14.540 the psychopath manipulates for the sake of manipulating.
00:08:18.700 The histrionic gossips.
00:08:20.740 Spreads rumors designed to frustrate and insult those around her
00:08:24.180 while laying the blame at the feet of somebody else.
00:08:27.100 She creates storms of instability and harm.
00:08:30.800 While the borderline demands endless attention,
00:08:33.680 acting like a sex goddess at times,
00:08:35.360 and constructing persecution narratives at others,
00:08:38.180 all for the sake of affect.
00:08:39.900 Any affect.
00:08:41.120 She is entitled to your attention,
00:08:42.880 no matter that it's 3 a.m. and you have work tomorrow.
00:08:47.400 Cluster Bs use normal human tools for achieving ends,
00:08:50.700 but in a deeply pathological manner,
00:08:53.060 which fails to achieve any ends that would make sense to a normal person.
00:08:57.360 This, incidentally, is why they're considered personality disorders.
00:09:01.500 Because ultimately, their actions are maladaptive,
00:09:04.040 self-destructive.
00:09:05.860 While normal human evil is a maladaptive pursuit of something good through illicit means,
00:09:11.680 the Cluster B pursues destruction through illicit means.
00:09:15.920 This is why they often go unnoticed.
00:09:18.440 Why would a man who has everything embezzle from his own company?
00:09:22.740 Why would a devoted mother murder her own children?
00:09:26.160 Why would a famous rock star lie about what sort of car he drives?
00:09:29.860 If they're a Cluster B, they do it because they can.
00:09:34.780 The difference between a psychopath and a manipulative jerk
00:09:37.980 is that the manipulative jerk will trick you so that he wins.
00:09:42.520 The psychopath will keep playing psycho chess games even after he's won,
00:09:48.920 and ultimately this will be his undoing.
00:09:51.600 These people succeed when regular people fail to believe that evil exists.
00:09:56.180 But eventually, their actions force this realization.
00:10:00.660 And with the scales fallen from their eyes,
00:10:02.680 they see them for what they are,
00:10:04.360 and all of their clever tricks stop working.
00:10:09.000 Cluster B cults and recruitment
00:10:11.280 Most Cluster Bs seem to be lone wolf operators,
00:10:16.640 individuals who pop into your life and do everything they can to wreck it
00:10:20.280 before finally being ejected and forced to move on to a new target.
00:10:23.880 But there are times when they pack together,
00:10:27.740 forming cults or taking over existing institutions,
00:10:31.420 and it's worth considering how this occurs.
00:10:34.540 I forewarn that this portion of my essay is going to be somewhat speculative.
00:10:38.920 By its very nature, a Cluster B cult is going to be occult.
00:10:43.660 People of the lie do not thrive in sunlight,
00:10:45.920 and while we have documented cases of Cluster B cults,
00:10:50.180 the recent exposure of the Navixim cult, for example,
00:10:54.440 not sure how to pronounce that,
00:10:56.800 the documentation is mostly limited to first-hand accounts
00:11:01.020 coming from people who've been heavily manipulated and abused,
00:11:04.980 and may not have noticed which manipulation techniques were being applied to them.
00:11:08.820 We don't have something like a sales training manual,
00:11:11.740 which explicitly lays out the process for detailed scrutiny.
00:11:16.200 And further complicating matters is that we likely have a sampling bias
00:11:20.300 towards cults which engage in some sort of sexual deviancy.
00:11:25.320 Rape triggers our apprehension and disgust,
00:11:28.600 and is thus more likely to be prosecuted
00:11:31.120 than a cult which relies entirely upon mental abuse.
00:11:34.540 Cluster Bs don't seem to be as appetitive as your typical brute,
00:11:40.900 forcing himself upon his prom date and a drunken lust.
00:11:44.480 Cluster Bs primarily use sex instrumentally.
00:11:48.460 So keep that in mind.
00:11:49.820 While sex is a particularly useful tool for destabilizing an innocent person,
00:11:54.420 it is not the only tool.
00:11:56.980 As stated, Cluster Bs typically only seek out victims.
00:12:00.400 They don't usually rise above the level of abusive spouse,
00:12:04.520 manipulative liar, or serial killer.
00:12:07.300 But every so often, they begin to flock.
00:12:09.960 As far as I can tell, they're motivated by something like boredom.
00:12:13.500 Bored of merely toying with one victim,
00:12:15.920 they seek to network with other manipulators.
00:12:19.080 To sharpen their skills,
00:12:20.500 to have somebody to show off to,
00:12:22.680 ambition.
00:12:23.960 I can't properly explain what their ends are with this behavior.
00:12:28.680 But nonetheless, it seems to happen.
00:12:30.400 Cluster B recruitment seems to happen most often in a college setting.
00:12:36.320 A good location to find bright, young, vulnerable minds.
00:12:39.820 They use the same sort of subtle hints and queries
00:12:42.120 which homosexuals used in previous eras to find one another.
00:12:45.740 Only instead of sexual interest,
00:12:47.840 the question they're asking is,
00:12:49.800 do you want to manipulate somebody with me
00:12:51.760 and delight in crushing their soul?
00:12:53.520 The artist Miles W. Mathis
00:12:57.400 presented an odd story from his college days
00:13:00.020 where an upperclassman from another school
00:13:02.440 approached him and his friends
00:13:04.140 and invited them to a house party at the next town over.
00:13:07.680 Notable is how he initially suspected the other student
00:13:10.440 of having a homosexual interest in him,
00:13:14.360 only to immediately dismiss the notion
00:13:16.100 upon a closer examination of his body language.
00:13:19.060 He wanted something, but what?
00:13:22.160 So he attended the party,
00:13:23.900 was plied with beautiful women,
00:13:25.560 and provided with a king-size bed to sleep in.
00:13:28.440 Thankfully, he says,
00:13:29.480 none of the women followed him upstairs,
00:13:30.840 even though normally that's the goal of college partying.
00:13:34.140 There was something off about the entire evening,
00:13:36.280 and he was thankful to never hear from the student again.
00:13:40.000 I shared that story with a friend of mine,
00:13:42.080 and it triggered a memory from his own college days.
00:13:45.060 One day he was approached by an older male student,
00:13:47.660 who also showed an odd interest in him
00:13:49.820 which he initially mistook for being sexual.
00:13:53.900 Like Mathis, he was quickly convinced otherwise,
00:13:56.400 and the student and the student's girlfriend
00:13:58.300 wound up treating my friend to a dinner
00:14:00.500 at an expensive restaurant,
00:14:02.040 and then started asking him
00:14:03.220 if he were interested in mind control.
00:14:06.540 My friend asserted that he didn't believe
00:14:08.140 such a thing to be possible,
00:14:09.640 that human volition could not be subverted.
00:14:12.520 The strange student offered to show him an example
00:14:14.720 of how he could mind control the waitress,
00:14:17.500 but my friend was unimpressed with the proposal
00:14:19.700 and declined.
00:14:21.060 Like Mathis, he never heard from the strange student again.
00:14:26.360 Cluster B, Superpowers.
00:14:28.660 The Cluster B my friend ran into is hardly an anomaly.
00:14:34.720 These people tend to think very highly of themselves
00:14:37.240 and their ability to mind control other people,
00:14:40.720 or to influence real world events through magic.
00:14:44.200 I once had encounters with a Wiccan coven
00:14:46.320 who were convinced of this.
00:14:48.140 In retrospect, though I never met the leader,
00:14:50.340 the behaviors of their followers made it a near certainty
00:14:53.680 that they were a Cluster B cult.
00:14:56.920 In popular culture, they have a reputation
00:14:58.840 for being manipulative geniuses,
00:15:01.100 such as Hannibal Lecter,
00:15:02.720 and then there are the cases of some,
00:15:04.520 like Jeffrey Dahmer,
00:15:05.660 who were reportedly transforming into monsters,
00:15:09.420 into a monster during his assaults.
00:15:11.600 In reality, these superpowers
00:15:13.140 are utterly banal manipulation tactics,
00:15:17.260 which are ultimately destructive.
00:15:19.480 They're a double-edged blade without a handle,
00:15:21.720 which winds up harming both user and victim.
00:15:25.600 As a brief aside,
00:15:27.860 none of this is to state that the supernatural doesn't exist.
00:15:30.560 It most certainly does.
00:15:31.880 But it works along similar lines.
00:15:34.180 It doesn't grant superpowers to witches or psychopaths.
00:15:37.980 They merely cheat others out of things
00:15:40.060 that are rightfully theirs.
00:15:41.700 God is in control of reality, not the devil.
00:15:44.600 The devil has to play by his rules,
00:15:46.740 even when he's trying to bend them.
00:15:50.000 To illustrate why,
00:15:51.280 let's start out by discussing the light side
00:15:53.980 of manipulation tactics.
00:15:56.900 Despite the pejorative connotations,
00:15:59.560 there's nothing inherently evil
00:16:01.340 about manipulation or rhetoric.
00:16:04.060 So long as it's founded upon a solid basis
00:16:06.200 of facts and reason,
00:16:08.180 manipulation is nothing more than using tactics
00:16:10.820 and strategies in your communication
00:16:12.460 which are effective at convincing your audience.
00:16:15.620 Whether we're talking about sales,
00:16:17.640 flirtation, or philosophical debate,
00:16:20.520 the skilled locateur
00:16:21.800 will use their speaking skills
00:16:23.900 to draw out information from the target,
00:16:26.660 what their interests, opinions, and desires are,
00:16:29.580 and then present their thesis
00:16:31.540 in a manner which simultaneously satisfies the target
00:16:34.680 while also entertaining them.
00:16:37.260 Good sales leads to satisfied customers.
00:16:40.600 Good flirtation to passionate romance.
00:16:43.380 Good argument to education.
00:16:46.220 But like any skill,
00:16:47.360 it can be used for good or ill.
00:16:49.720 Thus, we associate the term manipulation
00:16:51.960 not with the character of the talented diplomat,
00:16:54.860 but rather the used car salesman,
00:16:57.320 the pickup artist,
00:16:58.480 and the shill,
00:16:59.720 people who use their talents at location
00:17:01.740 to trick you into buying a shoddy product.
00:17:05.880 But all of these characters,
00:17:07.480 despite their disrepute,
00:17:08.880 are nonetheless human.
00:17:10.880 The salesman just wants to make a buck,
00:17:12.840 the pickup artist wants to get laid,
00:17:15.760 and the shill wants paying followers for his ideology.
00:17:19.500 Caveat emptor and all that.
00:17:22.120 Nobody would describe a scam artist
00:17:23.720 as having superpowers.
00:17:25.460 They're just lying to get ahead.
00:17:27.440 With cluster bees,
00:17:28.660 it's the same thing.
00:17:30.320 Nothing but cheap lies and appeal to emotion,
00:17:33.080 but they take these tactics
00:17:34.380 to such an extreme degree
00:17:36.380 that they become a difference in kind.
00:17:39.080 One tactic they use
00:17:42.640 is the abuse of language.
00:17:44.900 During normal conversation,
00:17:46.340 it is often necessary for us to define our terms.
00:17:49.340 For instance,
00:17:50.340 if someone says,
00:17:51.560 the truck is powerful,
00:17:53.480 do they mean acceleration or towing capacity?
00:17:56.460 People who are trying to genuinely communicate
00:17:58.540 with one another
00:17:59.160 will often devote a large part of the conversation
00:18:01.780 to defining precisely
00:18:03.460 what the important words mean.
00:18:05.500 In the case of the flim-flam man,
00:18:08.040 they'll outright lie.
00:18:09.400 Or allow you to misinterpret what they're saying.
00:18:12.240 But cluster bees,
00:18:13.680 people of the lie,
00:18:14.820 as Dr. Peck calls them,
00:18:16.820 like to wage an all-out war on language itself,
00:18:20.400 constantly introducing new words for old ideas,
00:18:23.540 or flipping the definition of common terms
00:18:25.640 into the polar opposite
00:18:26.860 of what most people think they mean.
00:18:30.420 A prominent example from recent history
00:18:33.020 were the campaigns of political correctness.
00:18:36.360 Words such as retard and moron
00:18:39.520 had precise scientific definitions.
00:18:43.720 They were used to communicate vital information
00:18:46.180 about childhood development
00:18:47.540 and the intellectual capacity
00:18:49.360 of vulnerable groups within society.
00:18:51.820 Then, political correctness introduced new terms
00:18:57.480 which failed to communicate
00:18:59.020 the same degree of information.
00:19:01.140 E.g., differently abled
00:19:03.300 doesn't tell you if it's a physical impairment
00:19:05.640 or a mental impairment
00:19:07.000 that the individual might need help with.
00:19:09.980 While simultaneously labeling anybody
00:19:12.500 who used the old term
00:19:13.600 as a villain who wanted to harm
00:19:15.480 those who lacked capacity.
00:19:17.920 While political correctness
00:19:19.100 is no longer an active campaign,
00:19:21.140 these tricks are still being pulled.
00:19:23.380 Fashionable redefinitions
00:19:24.840 and relabelings of popular words
00:19:26.840 with precise meanings
00:19:28.260 only serves to confuse
00:19:29.840 and abuse the population at large.
00:19:32.640 Use this new word that we just made up
00:19:34.740 or else you're stupid, ignorant,
00:19:36.640 and maybe evil.
00:19:38.480 Constantly having to learn new terms
00:19:40.160 for ideas or objects
00:19:41.760 which haven't changed
00:19:42.880 is a form of gaslighting.
00:19:46.740 Another way cluster bees will abuse language
00:19:48.660 is by flipping the terms upside down.
00:19:51.760 Three examples of this
00:19:53.100 would be the words
00:19:54.020 liberation, empowerment, and racism.
00:19:58.960 To most people,
00:20:00.680 the word liberation
00:20:01.860 means the freedom
00:20:03.540 to make your own choices in life.
00:20:06.720 Empowerment means having the support in place
00:20:09.720 so that you're not forced
00:20:10.940 into desperate choices.
00:20:13.240 And racism
00:20:14.200 is just a particular form of bigotry
00:20:16.940 focused upon race.
00:20:19.540 The neo-Marxist critical theory crowd
00:20:22.340 means the exact opposite
00:20:24.480 of these common definitions
00:20:25.820 when they speak about these things.
00:20:28.280 For them,
00:20:29.340 liberation means that you are liberated
00:20:31.600 from all cultural oppression.
00:20:34.560 That is,
00:20:35.440 you have no legal system ruling over you,
00:20:38.260 no language,
00:20:39.180 no philosophy of reason,
00:20:41.360 you have been liberated
00:20:42.760 from all the social technologies
00:20:44.620 which,
00:20:45.440 according to a normal person,
00:20:47.100 provide the agency you need
00:20:48.500 to actually be liberated.
00:20:51.260 Empowerment,
00:20:52.040 likewise,
00:20:52.520 means the opposite.
00:20:53.940 An empowered woman
00:20:54.940 isn't someone with the agency
00:20:56.760 to choose from multiple career paths.
00:20:59.320 Rather,
00:21:00.040 it's a woman
00:21:00.560 who's beholden
00:21:01.420 to affirmative action
00:21:02.460 or a welfare system
00:21:03.880 and who is forced
00:21:04.900 to pay lip service
00:21:05.860 to the party line
00:21:06.840 or else lose their income.
00:21:08.900 As for racism,
00:21:10.500 that's nothing more than power
00:21:11.860 plus privilege.
00:21:13.400 It's the bigoted statement
00:21:14.560 that if you're white,
00:21:16.500 you have both power and privilege,
00:21:18.500 ergo,
00:21:19.160 you are racist.
00:21:21.100 War is peace,
00:21:22.280 freedom is slavery,
00:21:23.600 ignorance is strength.
00:21:24.400 Another tactic cluster bees
00:21:27.940 will use
00:21:28.520 is the inducement
00:21:29.560 of neuroses.
00:21:31.100 While the rhetorician
00:21:32.440 will ask the question,
00:21:34.120 what do you want?
00:21:35.000 Is there a way
00:21:35.680 I can help satisfy
00:21:36.700 your desires?
00:21:38.360 The cluster bee
00:21:39.240 will instead chip away
00:21:40.300 at your self-image,
00:21:41.580 breaking your legs
00:21:42.420 so that they can sell you
00:21:43.780 a crutch.
00:21:45.000 This is a major tactic
00:21:46.300 used throughout
00:21:47.200 the advertising world,
00:21:48.820 one developed
00:21:50.880 by Edward Bernays.
00:21:53.740 Unlike his uncle
00:21:54.480 Sigmund Freud,
00:21:55.300 who applied his knowledge
00:21:56.420 of the human psyche
00:21:57.520 to try and help people
00:21:58.700 become stronger,
00:22:00.200 Bernays used his knowledge
00:22:01.420 to tear people down.
00:22:03.380 Each of us
00:22:04.040 is prone
00:22:04.600 to some universal concerns,
00:22:06.720 fear of death,
00:22:07.620 fear of loneliness,
00:22:08.700 fear of being a bad parent,
00:22:10.200 et cetera.
00:22:11.880 Building off
00:22:12.460 of Freud's insights,
00:22:13.920 Bernays found ways
00:22:14.860 of inducing these fears
00:22:16.240 subconsciously.
00:22:17.240 An image
00:22:18.580 whose background elements
00:22:20.180 are suggestive of a skull
00:22:21.960 to induce existential dread.
00:22:24.680 Or carefully arranged
00:22:26.120 NLP wording
00:22:27.260 to emphasize abandonment.
00:22:30.280 This inducement of terror
00:22:32.180 would then make the audience
00:22:33.800 more receptive
00:22:34.620 to the benefits
00:22:35.540 promised by the product.
00:22:37.720 You're gonna die one day!
00:22:39.380 Better buy this candy bar
00:22:41.000 to feel good!
00:22:43.220 On the surface,
00:22:44.480 this might sound ridiculous,
00:22:45.380 but it's a theory
00:22:47.240 that stood the test of time.
00:22:49.360 The trick
00:22:49.700 is doing it subtly.
00:22:51.200 Comedians frequently
00:22:52.100 lampoon this toxic behavior.
00:22:54.560 Family Guy featured
00:22:55.660 subliminal cigarette commercials,
00:22:58.440 which were nothing more
00:22:59.140 than an angry man
00:23:00.000 yelling at the audience
00:23:00.900 to smoke.
00:23:02.220 The aforementioned
00:23:03.440 David Firth's short film,
00:23:05.660 Health Reminder,
00:23:07.240 included an ad
00:23:08.160 from Big Pharma
00:23:09.100 which bluntly told the viewer,
00:23:10.840 you are ill.
00:23:14.340 Real world examples
00:23:15.360 are as immediately obvious
00:23:17.040 and often come with
00:23:17.960 the helping of plausible
00:23:19.080 deniability.
00:23:20.740 As with the last example,
00:23:21.920 let's dig into recent history
00:23:23.240 for an example.
00:23:25.820 Shortly after the 9-11
00:23:27.340 terror attacks,
00:23:28.600 the George Bush regime
00:23:29.840 instituted a color-coded
00:23:31.480 advisory system
00:23:33.120 to inform the public
00:23:34.660 of the current terror level.
00:23:36.420 What exactly was
00:23:39.300 the purpose of this?
00:23:41.220 What was accomplished
00:23:42.340 by informing the public
00:23:44.000 that America
00:23:44.900 is on orange alert this week
00:23:46.980 or blue alert
00:23:48.060 another week?
00:23:49.860 It's not as if
00:23:50.940 the general public
00:23:51.700 can prepare
00:23:52.380 for a terror attack
00:23:53.480 the way one might prepare
00:23:54.880 for a tropical storm.
00:23:56.820 The reason
00:23:57.820 the advisory system
00:23:58.960 was implemented
00:23:59.660 was to induce
00:24:01.060 fear in the public.
00:24:03.000 The government claimed
00:24:03.740 it was providing
00:24:04.820 a service
00:24:05.620 to keep you informed
00:24:06.960 while in reality
00:24:08.740 these warnings
00:24:09.800 made people neurotic
00:24:11.600 thus preventing them
00:24:13.060 from questioning
00:24:13.740 the legality
00:24:14.640 of the wars
00:24:15.300 being started.
00:24:18.140 Again,
00:24:18.820 this is subtly different
00:24:19.720 from what a normal human does.
00:24:21.720 The ad man says,
00:24:23.300 Hey, buddy,
00:24:24.480 you want the ladies
00:24:25.260 to like you,
00:24:25.780 don't you?
00:24:26.620 Why not buy my blue jeans?
00:24:29.280 The cluster B says,
00:24:31.820 Your dog's going to die.
00:24:33.940 Buy this suit
00:24:34.780 to ward off death.
00:24:38.800 Finally,
00:24:39.480 there's one more
00:24:40.020 manipulation tactic
00:24:41.260 that cluster B's use
00:24:42.980 known as splitting.
00:24:45.340 This one is particularly
00:24:46.940 present in the borderlines,
00:24:49.200 but all of them use it
00:24:50.080 to one degree or another.
00:24:52.280 Splitting is when
00:24:53.240 they categorize everything
00:24:54.620 into black or white thinking.
00:24:57.740 Everything's all good
00:24:59.000 or it's all evil.
00:25:00.580 If you've encountered
00:25:02.340 a borderline,
00:25:03.400 it likely started off
00:25:04.680 with them praising you
00:25:05.880 as perfection manifest.
00:25:08.460 You were a hero.
00:25:09.580 You could do no wrong
00:25:10.900 until the day
00:25:12.700 you didn't do
00:25:13.220 what they wanted.
00:25:14.300 At that point,
00:25:14.920 you became a monster,
00:25:16.160 an oppressor,
00:25:17.040 an abuser.
00:25:17.600 You became the blackest
00:25:19.200 of villains in their mind,
00:25:20.740 justifying the worst
00:25:21.880 of treatments.
00:25:22.660 This is a tactic we see
00:25:25.960 throughout our
00:25:26.700 democratic political system.
00:25:28.720 And unfortunately,
00:25:29.660 I can't provide any
00:25:30.840 de-stigmatized
00:25:32.060 historical examples of it.
00:25:33.800 Even if I go back a century,
00:25:35.740 either the split is a debate
00:25:37.220 so old that nobody
00:25:38.440 remembers it,
00:25:39.260 the Scopes Monkey Trial,
00:25:40.740 or it's still part
00:25:42.660 of our national conversation
00:25:43.960 decades after it
00:25:45.480 should have become irrelevant,
00:25:47.300 Time Magazine's
00:25:48.200 1938 Man of the Year.
00:25:50.900 So,
00:25:51.520 please consider the following
00:25:52.840 dispassionately,
00:25:54.460 because the whole point
00:25:55.820 of cluster B splitting
00:25:56.860 is to force you
00:25:58.200 into choosing sides.
00:26:00.900 The most obvious example
00:26:02.640 of this is the split
00:26:04.120 of red team,
00:26:05.340 blue team itself.
00:26:06.520 As if one party
00:26:09.640 or the other
00:26:10.320 is entirely composed
00:26:11.740 of malicious demons.
00:26:13.820 Then you have
00:26:14.640 climate change
00:26:15.500 versus climate deniers.
00:26:17.380 And most recently,
00:26:18.480 pro-vax and anti-vaxers.
00:26:21.480 These are ridiculous
00:26:23.120 caricatures
00:26:23.960 of complex positions.
00:26:26.100 Anybody who forces you
00:26:27.220 to choose between
00:26:28.220 two of these
00:26:29.120 doesn't have your
00:26:30.360 best interests at heart.
00:26:32.080 They're inducting you
00:26:33.440 into a cluster B cult.
00:26:36.520 These are the superpowers
00:26:39.200 that cluster Bs
00:26:40.120 make claim to.
00:26:41.640 This is the mind control
00:26:43.220 that the strange
00:26:44.200 gentleman
00:26:44.900 promised to show
00:26:45.800 my friend.
00:26:47.360 They're shocking
00:26:48.280 in their insanity
00:26:49.080 and their pointlessness,
00:26:50.600 but there's nothing
00:26:52.000 extraordinary about them.
00:26:54.300 Quite the contrary,
00:26:55.420 they utterly lack
00:26:56.420 the divine spark
00:26:57.420 that comes with
00:26:58.320 Eureka,
00:26:59.600 that sudden flash
00:27:00.740 of insight
00:27:01.300 which we all
00:27:01.980 occasionally stumble upon,
00:27:03.460 which winds up
00:27:04.160 blessing the world
00:27:05.040 and turning it
00:27:05.740 into a better place.
00:27:07.380 The only thing unique
00:27:08.420 about these lies
00:27:09.320 is the sheer size
00:27:11.140 and extent of them.
00:27:12.920 Why would anybody
00:27:14.200 lie about something
00:27:15.240 like that?
00:27:16.720 Why indeed?
00:27:18.380 It's because these people
00:27:19.600 are insane
00:27:20.280 and we feel to see it
00:27:22.540 because we give them
00:27:23.760 the benefit of the doubt
00:27:24.760 and thus imagine
00:27:25.880 some sort of genuine motive
00:27:27.960 behind actions
00:27:29.280 whose only purpose
00:27:30.660 are profanity
00:27:31.860 and destruction.
00:27:34.660 A thief can play
00:27:35.780 a manipulation game
00:27:36.840 to distract a normal person
00:27:38.220 and then steal his wallet.
00:27:40.320 But that doesn't
00:27:41.280 make him smart.
00:27:42.700 It just makes him cunning.
00:27:44.720 The same thing goes
00:27:45.940 for cluster bees.
00:27:47.200 They're not smarter
00:27:48.100 than other people.
00:27:49.320 They're just more willing
00:27:50.540 to lie about anything
00:27:51.800 and everything
00:27:52.700 and our good nature
00:27:53.960 allows them
00:27:54.460 to get away with it.
00:27:56.100 For a while.
00:27:56.860 Systematized Cluster Bee Inducement
00:28:03.320 By this point
00:28:06.100 it should be obvious
00:28:07.080 that merely associating
00:28:08.660 with cluster bees
00:28:09.420 is bad for your mental health.
00:28:11.320 All of their tools
00:28:12.220 involve inducing
00:28:13.220 some sort of psychic harm
00:28:14.680 in their target
00:28:15.400 in order to get their way.
00:28:17.620 What's not so obvious
00:28:18.580 is what form
00:28:19.840 this mental illness takes.
00:28:21.960 Generally speaking
00:28:22.720 it results in the target
00:28:24.320 exhibiting cluster bee
00:28:25.820 behavior themselves.
00:28:28.060 This is readily apparent
00:28:29.260 in anybody
00:28:29.660 who's had a close relationship
00:28:31.020 with a cluster bee
00:28:31.800 whether it was
00:28:32.700 a parent-child relationship
00:28:34.560 a romantic partnership
00:28:36.180 or a supervisor at work.
00:28:38.680 Part of the healing process
00:28:39.880 is rejecting
00:28:40.860 those maladaptive behaviors
00:28:42.280 which have been normalized
00:28:43.640 over a period of years.
00:28:45.960 But for the purposes
00:28:46.760 of this article
00:28:47.400 we'll be discussing
00:28:48.060 the systematized inducement
00:28:50.300 of cluster bee behavior patterns
00:28:51.780 which occurs
00:28:52.760 when cluster bees get organized.
00:28:54.520 We'll be breaking these down
00:28:56.200 by the four types
00:28:57.300 of cluster bees
00:28:58.180 though of course
00:28:59.960 all of the cluster bees
00:29:01.240 overlap to some extent.
00:29:04.500 Our first example
00:29:05.720 will be something
00:29:06.400 that many of us
00:29:07.120 are far too familiar with.
00:29:09.280 The cover my ass
00:29:10.760 psychopath culture
00:29:12.060 which is evident
00:29:13.020 in corporate newspeak.
00:29:15.320 In far too many companies today
00:29:16.780 the path to advancement
00:29:18.060 is in learning the art
00:29:19.600 of cheerfully lying
00:29:20.940 through emails.
00:29:21.760 passing off blame
00:29:23.340 and making sure
00:29:24.160 the buck never stops
00:29:25.420 with you.
00:29:26.340 Treating bad news
00:29:27.340 as if it were something
00:29:28.220 everyone had been craving.
00:29:30.500 Good news everyone!
00:29:32.280 The cafeteria
00:29:32.980 has eliminated
00:29:33.760 the dessert bar!
00:29:35.100 This will help us all
00:29:36.160 achieve our fitness goals!
00:29:38.560 To be sure
00:29:39.460 not all corporations
00:29:40.520 are like this.
00:29:42.500 Corporations are just
00:29:43.540 legal fictions after all
00:29:44.760 run by human beings
00:29:46.220 and regulated by the state.
00:29:47.720 There are many
00:29:49.180 fine companies out there
00:29:50.700 who are led by visionaries
00:29:51.980 with a passion
00:29:52.700 for what they do.
00:29:54.200 Historically
00:29:54.720 we have Lamborghini
00:29:55.880 founded by
00:29:56.880 Ferruccio Lamborghini
00:29:58.080 in 1963
00:29:59.000 an Italian business magnate
00:30:01.040 who loved automobiles.
00:30:02.960 Legend has it
00:30:03.640 that he could tune
00:30:04.320 the carburetors
00:30:05.140 of his vehicles by ear.
00:30:07.440 Around that sort of passion
00:30:08.820 a corporate culture develops.
00:30:10.840 A certain style
00:30:11.680 a flair
00:30:12.320 and those who share it
00:30:13.480 will enjoy working there.
00:30:15.380 But when this leadership
00:30:16.420 is replaced by
00:30:17.500 cluster B manipulators
00:30:18.860 the integrity evaporates.
00:30:21.500 Lip service is still paid
00:30:22.820 to whatever values
00:30:23.700 the company used to have
00:30:25.060 but in practice
00:30:26.220 it's become nothing
00:30:27.240 but scheming mendacity.
00:30:29.560 And if you want
00:30:30.100 to keep your job
00:30:31.060 you'd better adopt it too.
00:30:33.880 Play at being a psychopath
00:30:34.940 for long enough
00:30:35.800 and eventually
00:30:36.800 you'll become one yourself.
00:30:41.140 Next let's consider
00:30:42.560 the induction
00:30:43.260 of narcissism.
00:30:44.460 of creating a shell
00:30:46.360 personality
00:30:47.060 that you angrily demand
00:30:48.920 that everyone believe in.
00:30:51.280 Back in 2016
00:30:52.420 a nanon on 4chan
00:30:54.020 related a story
00:30:54.760 about his time
00:30:55.440 as a consultant
00:30:56.220 and lobbyist
00:30:57.400 for the cosmetics industry.
00:30:59.620 As he relates it
00:31:00.920 their marketing department
00:31:02.220 had been hard at work
00:31:03.380 redefining beauty
00:31:04.540 as
00:31:05.360 not an ideal
00:31:07.300 to be studied
00:31:07.900 by philosophers
00:31:08.640 of aesthetics
00:31:09.640 and realized
00:31:10.660 by artists
00:31:11.320 nor
00:31:12.340 a unity
00:31:13.140 of form
00:31:13.640 and function
00:31:14.200 made manifest
00:31:15.100 in athletes
00:31:15.900 and practiced
00:31:16.600 by architects
00:31:17.320 but rather
00:31:18.740 as a commodity
00:31:20.040 one could purchase.
00:31:21.840 They made Brazil
00:31:23.080 their test case
00:31:24.020 marketing departments
00:31:25.500 will often test out
00:31:26.460 a new product
00:31:27.280 ad campaign
00:31:28.080 or strategy
00:31:28.740 on a limited market
00:31:30.140 to see if it will succeed
00:31:31.420 in the United States
00:31:32.520 and it worked better
00:31:34.460 than anyone
00:31:35.020 could have predicted.
00:31:36.840 Not only did plastic surgery
00:31:38.100 skyrocket
00:31:39.000 so did transsexualism.
00:31:42.460 It seemed that
00:31:43.040 many men
00:31:43.640 were now viewing
00:31:44.440 female beauty
00:31:45.400 not as something
00:31:46.440 that could be earned
00:31:47.420 by wooing a woman
00:31:48.460 but rather something
00:31:49.780 they could purchase
00:31:50.480 in the marketplace
00:31:51.080 and without being forced
00:31:52.680 to engage
00:31:53.240 in meaningful interaction
00:31:54.340 with another person.
00:31:56.840 Of course
00:31:57.640 this story is apocryphal.
00:31:59.880 There's no way
00:32:00.560 to verify it
00:32:01.320 as any of the
00:32:02.580 published documents
00:32:03.340 which might attest
00:32:04.280 to it
00:32:04.660 would be so immersed
00:32:05.900 in plausible deniability
00:32:07.220 and newspeak
00:32:08.440 as to render them
00:32:09.620 essentially meaningless.
00:32:11.460 But for anybody
00:32:12.040 with even a passing
00:32:12.880 understanding of marketing
00:32:14.120 or narcissism
00:32:15.260 it's a simple fact
00:32:16.900 that things like this
00:32:17.620 occur all the time.
00:32:19.400 Perhaps the Brazil story
00:32:20.540 is nothing but science fiction
00:32:21.840 but it's a science fiction story
00:32:23.660 about real marketing technologies
00:32:25.260 and how industry lobbies
00:32:26.940 will apply them
00:32:27.760 to populations as a whole.
00:32:29.000 For present purposes
00:32:31.620 let's take this story
00:32:32.600 at face value
00:32:33.380 and consider the many men
00:32:34.940 who succumb to the marketing
00:32:36.260 of beauty as consumer good.
00:32:39.020 The psychology of gender dysphoria
00:32:40.720 is complicated
00:32:41.740 and hotly contested.
00:32:43.540 There appear to be
00:32:44.080 multiple causes
00:32:44.880 multiple types
00:32:46.020 and multiple treatments
00:32:47.160 for those suffering it.
00:32:48.820 It does not suit
00:32:49.820 our present purposes
00:32:50.520 to take a stance
00:32:51.460 on a politicized
00:32:52.520 scientific matter.
00:32:54.260 Despite all the controversy
00:32:55.760 however
00:32:56.180 it is widely accepted
00:32:57.900 that one type
00:32:59.540 of gender dysphoria
00:33:00.540 is autogynephilia.
00:33:02.860 That is
00:33:03.360 the sexual fetish
00:33:04.740 for viewing one's own male body
00:33:06.620 as that of a sexualized woman.
00:33:10.020 The way this disorder
00:33:11.340 seems to come about
00:33:12.400 is that it starts
00:33:13.460 from the natural desire
00:33:14.580 to be seen
00:33:15.140 as sexually attractive.
00:33:16.740 What man hasn't admired
00:33:17.760 their biceps in the mirror
00:33:18.960 after a good workout?
00:33:20.800 But when it comes
00:33:21.600 to raw visual seduction
00:33:23.140 men don't hold
00:33:24.660 a candle to women
00:33:25.600 whom God and evolution
00:33:27.020 designed to be
00:33:27.760 painfully appealing.
00:33:29.460 The disorder begins
00:33:30.500 when the man
00:33:31.100 attempts to possess
00:33:32.040 this appeal
00:33:32.740 within himself.
00:33:34.560 When he starts desiring
00:33:35.580 not to watch strippers
00:33:37.360 or date strippers
00:33:38.860 but to become
00:33:39.920 the stripper.
00:33:41.620 It should then be
00:33:42.180 no surprise
00:33:42.780 that a marketing campaign
00:33:43.900 which says
00:33:44.540 you can purchase
00:33:46.000 feminine beauty
00:33:46.820 it's not an aspect
00:33:48.400 integral to your
00:33:49.420 help meet woman
00:33:50.220 but simply an item
00:33:51.560 which is on sale
00:33:52.300 at Walmart
00:33:52.900 might push
00:33:54.460 a nascent fetish
00:33:56.100 into a full-blown
00:33:57.940 mental disorder.
00:33:59.980 The man has now
00:34:01.220 been induced
00:34:02.140 into narcissism.
00:34:03.740 Rather than pursuing
00:34:04.520 meaningful relationships
00:34:05.760 he's devoting
00:34:07.040 his energies
00:34:07.560 into manufacturing
00:34:08.780 a facade
00:34:09.540 and he'll be choosing
00:34:10.900 his friends
00:34:11.460 based upon
00:34:12.080 who supports
00:34:12.920 this imago
00:34:14.080 while lashing out
00:34:15.440 with great hostility
00:34:16.660 at those who don't.
00:34:19.740 Next
00:34:20.380 we have
00:34:21.080 the borderline culture
00:34:22.220 of the radical left
00:34:23.640 the culture
00:34:24.640 of perpetual victimhood
00:34:26.360 and aggression.
00:34:28.140 These borderline cults
00:34:29.260 spread themselves
00:34:29.960 in two different ways.
00:34:31.640 First
00:34:31.880 they recruit those
00:34:32.960 who have been
00:34:33.400 legitimately victimized
00:34:34.840 either by an abusive
00:34:36.140 parent, spouse
00:34:37.080 or authority figure
00:34:38.060 and have thus learned
00:34:39.520 cluster B behavior patterns.
00:34:41.600 The other source
00:34:42.980 is people who belong
00:34:44.180 to groups
00:34:44.780 that have been
00:34:45.240 historically victimized
00:34:46.700 but were never
00:34:47.600 traumatized personally.
00:34:49.500 The borderline cult
00:34:50.460 then traumatizes
00:34:51.480 these individuals
00:34:52.300 with stories
00:34:53.180 from the past.
00:34:54.980 In practice
00:34:56.040 these two recruitment
00:34:57.420 strategies go hand in hand.
00:34:59.480 Note that the abuser
00:35:00.340 in question
00:35:00.760 doesn't have to belong
00:35:01.780 to the demographic
00:35:02.620 which the leftist cult
00:35:03.840 is explicitly attacking.
00:35:06.160 For instance
00:35:06.960 a terrible mother
00:35:08.320 could drive her daughter
00:35:09.540 into radical
00:35:10.220 man-hating feminism.
00:35:12.040 It's the behavior patterns
00:35:13.500 which matter
00:35:14.040 not the logic
00:35:15.940 of the abuse
00:35:16.940 or who should be blamed.
00:35:19.500 Furthermore
00:35:19.820 it should be acknowledged
00:35:20.820 that similar cults
00:35:21.920 exist on the fringe right.
00:35:23.880 The movie
00:35:24.340 American History X
00:35:25.760 provides an excellent
00:35:27.320 depiction
00:35:27.760 of how exploitative
00:35:29.100 and destructive
00:35:29.740 these cults can be.
00:35:31.320 But they don't gain access
00:35:32.940 to the same social capital
00:35:34.340 as do revolutionary movements
00:35:36.140 from the left
00:35:36.780 in today's society
00:35:37.700 so their destructive potential
00:35:39.520 is currently limited.
00:35:42.220 The major distinction
00:35:43.680 between a borderline cult
00:35:45.140 and a civil rights movement
00:35:46.800 is that the cult
00:35:48.180 can never stop.
00:35:50.360 Like the borderline
00:35:51.400 it demands
00:35:52.000 constant attention
00:35:53.240 and affirmation.
00:35:55.220 Those who demanded
00:35:56.060 civil rights
00:35:56.820 whether the movement
00:35:58.260 for black rights
00:35:59.100 in the 60s
00:35:59.900 or gun rights today
00:36:01.420 are more than happy
00:36:03.140 to go home
00:36:04.160 and stop protesting
00:36:05.380 once those rights
00:36:06.320 have been achieved.
00:36:07.700 The borderline cult
00:36:08.780 can never stop.
00:36:10.880 And so
00:36:11.260 we see the increasing
00:36:12.400 demands
00:36:13.800 of the LGBT movement.
00:36:16.920 Equal rights
00:36:17.580 marriage
00:36:18.700 adoption
00:36:19.740 hate speech laws
00:36:21.160 mandatory puberty blockers
00:36:22.840 for all children
00:36:23.640 These movements
00:36:26.260 become self-destructive
00:36:27.820 for the individual members
00:36:29.780 as well as
00:36:30.640 for the causes themselves
00:36:31.900 and
00:36:32.660 much like individual borderlines
00:36:34.940 the only treatment
00:36:36.520 is to ignore them.
00:36:37.700 For a detailed discussion
00:36:41.380 of what it's like
00:36:42.820 being in one of these
00:36:43.960 I strongly recommend
00:36:45.200 Benjamin A. Boyce's
00:36:46.820 conversation
00:36:47.420 with Josh Slocum
00:36:49.140 the latter of whom
00:36:50.540 to the best of my knowledge
00:36:51.900 coined the term
00:36:52.740 cluster B capture
00:36:53.860 and inspired me
00:36:55.140 to write this essay.
00:36:57.880 Finally
00:36:58.480 we have the cult
00:36:59.700 of histrionics
00:37:00.700 and while
00:37:02.100 you
00:37:03.180 gentle listener
00:37:04.580 have likely
00:37:06.160 had some
00:37:06.880 brushes
00:37:07.240 with all of the rest
00:37:08.300 it's a near
00:37:09.860 certainty
00:37:10.420 that you've been
00:37:11.080 induced
00:37:11.480 into one of these
00:37:12.440 cults
00:37:12.960 quite heavily
00:37:13.780 and congratulations
00:37:15.100 if you've resisted
00:37:16.160 and broken free
00:37:16.880 of the siren call
00:37:17.780 because the histrionic cult
00:37:20.240 is manufactured
00:37:21.540 by participation
00:37:22.580 in social media.
00:37:25.080 The histrionic
00:37:26.160 is the person
00:37:26.600 that loves
00:37:27.120 starting arguments
00:37:28.360 especially if they're
00:37:29.620 between other people
00:37:30.460 they enjoy
00:37:31.680 shoving cats and dogs
00:37:32.780 into a small room
00:37:33.620 and seeing them fight
00:37:34.480 their standard tactic
00:37:36.120 is the whispered
00:37:36.920 half-truth
00:37:37.560 did you know
00:37:38.840 that your brother
00:37:39.440 is angry at you
00:37:40.300 so that everyone
00:37:41.780 in their social circle
00:37:43.000 is tearing
00:37:43.680 one another apart.
00:37:46.580 Back in 2005
00:37:48.120 Randall Munro
00:37:49.600 published an
00:37:50.200 XKCD comic
00:37:51.760 titled
00:37:52.160 Duty Calls
00:37:53.280 Are you coming
00:37:54.540 to bed honey?
00:37:55.780 Not yet
00:37:56.440 someone is wrong
00:37:58.000 on the internet
00:37:58.820 this was long
00:38:01.280 before the rise
00:38:02.020 of social media
00:38:02.820 and it takes
00:38:03.460 a light-hearted jab
00:38:04.420 at our propensity
00:38:05.180 to argue
00:38:05.800 over pointless topics
00:38:07.160 with strangers
00:38:08.080 we will never meet.
00:38:09.840 But the friendly
00:38:10.680 arguments of yesteryear
00:38:12.140 are nothing
00:38:13.300 compared to the
00:38:14.040 blood sport
00:38:14.720 which exists today.
00:38:16.220 As I wrote back
00:38:17.140 in 2019
00:38:18.060 platforms like
00:38:19.500 Twitter and Facebook
00:38:20.460 are specifically
00:38:21.860 designed
00:38:22.540 to prevent
00:38:23.500 the sort of
00:38:24.160 meaningful arguments
00:38:25.120 we once had
00:38:25.880 on internet forums
00:38:26.840 and instead
00:38:27.920 replace them
00:38:28.740 with short
00:38:29.400 venomous
00:38:30.300 hate-filled
00:38:31.080 statements.
00:38:32.440 No discourse
00:38:33.220 only yelling
00:38:34.580 matches.
00:38:36.000 Turn everyone
00:38:36.720 into a spiteful
00:38:37.760 monster
00:38:38.140 who requires
00:38:38.980 the Twitter
00:38:39.420 safety council
00:38:40.300 and Facebook
00:38:41.320 fact checkers
00:38:42.260 to tell them
00:38:43.040 what they're
00:38:43.420 allowed to say.
00:38:45.300 The result
00:38:46.400 of all of this
00:38:47.100 is that rates
00:38:47.940 of cluster B's
00:38:48.940 within society
00:38:49.760 are skyrocketing.
00:38:51.280 The estimates
00:38:53.280 vary
00:38:53.780 due to the
00:38:54.840 difficulty
00:38:55.340 of definitions
00:38:56.180 and diagnostics
00:38:57.280 but overall
00:38:58.900 we're looking
00:38:59.520 at a five
00:39:00.240 to tenfold
00:39:00.960 increase.
00:39:02.660 Instead of
00:39:03.200 one out of
00:39:04.080 a hundred people
00:39:04.940 being a cluster B
00:39:05.880 it's easily
00:39:07.360 as high
00:39:07.920 as one in ten
00:39:08.900 these days
00:39:09.600 if not higher.
00:39:13.740 Frank Herbert
00:39:14.960 and the
00:39:15.940 double-edged
00:39:16.500 sword of
00:39:17.200 power.
00:39:19.720 I was
00:39:20.480 recently
00:39:20.840 linked
00:39:21.260 to a
00:39:21.640 1965
00:39:22.420 podcast
00:39:24.180 by Frank
00:39:25.400 Herbert
00:39:25.700 in which
00:39:26.520 he discussed
00:39:27.160 the origins
00:39:27.860 of his
00:39:28.200 Dune series
00:39:28.940 a series
00:39:30.020 which
00:39:30.420 as others
00:39:30.860 have noted
00:39:31.300 seems
00:39:31.720 increasingly
00:39:32.400 relevant
00:39:32.880 in our
00:39:33.320 present day.
00:39:34.940 While there
00:39:35.220 are multiple
00:39:35.580 themes
00:39:35.940 throughout
00:39:36.200 the novel
00:39:36.700 of particular
00:39:37.680 note
00:39:38.100 are his
00:39:38.540 thoughts
00:39:38.900 on psychological
00:39:39.880 weapons.
00:39:40.880 The problem
00:39:41.920 with psychological
00:39:42.940 weapons
00:39:43.420 he says
00:39:44.100 is that
00:39:45.340 they're a
00:39:45.720 double-edged
00:39:46.420 blade
00:39:46.860 with no
00:39:47.560 handle.
00:39:49.200 Any
00:39:49.400 psychological
00:39:50.000 weapon
00:39:50.520 sufficiently
00:39:51.400 capable
00:39:51.920 of destroying
00:39:52.540 the enemy
00:39:53.080 will also
00:39:54.360 destroy
00:39:55.140 the wielder.
00:39:56.880 To deploy
00:39:57.420 them
00:39:57.720 is to
00:39:58.620 destroy
00:39:59.000 yourself.
00:40:00.860 And this
00:40:01.400 is exactly
00:40:02.040 what we're
00:40:02.480 seeing with
00:40:02.920 the cluster
00:40:03.340 B
00:40:03.640 behaviors
00:40:04.360 exhibited
00:40:04.920 by so
00:40:05.500 many
00:40:05.720 of our
00:40:06.000 institutions.
00:40:07.160 Yes
00:40:07.680 they're
00:40:07.920 harming
00:40:08.180 all of
00:40:08.540 us
00:40:08.840 but
00:40:09.540 they're
00:40:09.720 also
00:40:10.060 harming
00:40:10.440 those
00:40:10.960 within
00:40:11.380 the
00:40:11.580 organizations.
00:40:13.420 In an
00:40:14.840 article
00:40:15.160 back
00:40:15.780 in
00:40:15.980 2012
00:40:16.540 my
00:40:17.280 late
00:40:17.520 friend
00:40:17.800 A4
00:40:18.240 related
00:40:18.660 a
00:40:18.860 story
00:40:19.200 similar
00:40:19.840 to
00:40:20.040 the
00:40:20.360 cosmetics
00:40:20.960 Brazilian
00:40:21.480 tale
00:40:21.900 posted
00:40:22.260 above.
00:40:23.740 A4
00:40:23.980 was
00:40:24.160 speaking
00:40:24.400 with
00:40:24.560 a
00:40:24.680 cousin
00:40:24.900 of
00:40:25.080 his
00:40:25.340 who
00:40:25.700 also
00:40:26.180 worked
00:40:26.540 in
00:40:26.660 marketing.
00:40:27.740 Their
00:40:27.880 conversation
00:40:28.440 went
00:40:28.700 like
00:40:28.920 this.
00:40:31.440 So
00:40:31.600 many
00:40:32.260 of these
00:40:32.580 clients
00:40:32.900 and
00:40:33.060 campaigns
00:40:33.680 whether
00:40:34.340 they
00:40:34.580 are
00:40:34.860 for
00:40:35.200 a
00:40:35.340 product
00:40:35.700 or
00:40:35.960 for
00:40:36.180 obscurity
00:40:36.720 are
00:40:37.120 long-term
00:40:37.680 things
00:40:38.200 I
00:40:38.480 asked
00:40:38.820 her.
00:40:40.000 Yes
00:40:40.240 she
00:40:40.440 said
00:40:40.760 in
00:40:41.100 some
00:40:41.340 cases
00:40:41.780 for
00:40:42.160 decades.
00:40:43.420 At which
00:40:43.920 I
00:40:44.080 raised
00:40:44.300 my
00:40:44.500 eyebrows.
00:40:46.060 Okay
00:40:46.320 there is
00:40:47.100 an 88%
00:40:47.860 chance
00:40:48.320 that you
00:40:48.780 as an
00:40:49.080 adult
00:40:49.340 single
00:40:49.680 male
00:40:50.020 in the
00:40:50.380 western
00:40:50.620 world
00:40:51.020 have
00:40:51.480 shaved
00:40:51.860 pubes
00:40:52.480 she
00:40:52.680 said.
00:40:53.840 Okay
00:40:54.440 got me
00:40:54.960 there.
00:40:55.260 When
00:40:56.780 when
00:40:56.800 you
00:40:56.940 were
00:40:57.060 a
00:40:57.160 young
00:40:57.340 man
00:40:57.620 in
00:40:57.740 the
00:40:57.860 70s
00:40:58.340 did
00:40:58.700 you
00:40:58.880 shave
00:40:59.120 your
00:40:59.300 pubes
00:40:59.720 she
00:40:59.940 asked.
00:41:01.160 Fuck
00:41:01.400 no.
00:41:03.120 So
00:41:03.240 your
00:41:03.440 starting
00:41:03.760 to
00:41:03.940 shave
00:41:04.140 your
00:41:04.320 pubes
00:41:04.740 coincided
00:41:05.520 with
00:41:05.740 the
00:41:05.920 advent
00:41:06.560 of
00:41:06.920 VHS
00:41:07.520 cassettes
00:41:08.040 and
00:41:08.440 easy
00:41:08.880 access
00:41:09.220 to
00:41:09.440 porn
00:41:09.740 and
00:41:10.180 porn
00:41:10.520 stars
00:41:10.800 would
00:41:10.980 shave
00:41:11.240 pubes.
00:41:12.960 I
00:41:13.500 guess
00:41:14.100 yeah.
00:41:15.740 Well
00:41:15.980 guess
00:41:16.360 who
00:41:16.540 started
00:41:16.920 that
00:41:17.200 campaign
00:41:17.740 by
00:41:17.980 getting
00:41:18.340 the
00:41:18.840 porn
00:41:19.120 companies
00:41:19.640 to
00:41:19.820 find
00:41:20.020 and
00:41:20.260 financially
00:41:20.780 supporting
00:41:21.320 them
00:41:21.640 if
00:41:22.360 their
00:41:22.580 models
00:41:22.940 were
00:41:23.240 hairless
00:41:23.820 minimal
00:41:24.360 pubes
00:41:24.980 ideally
00:41:25.600 all
00:41:25.880 over.
00:41:26.960 A
00:41:27.240 campaign
00:41:27.740 that
00:41:27.960 has
00:41:28.120 now
00:41:28.360 been
00:41:28.560 running
00:41:28.860 for
00:41:29.080 30
00:41:29.400 years.
00:41:31.340 Generations
00:41:31.860 are
00:41:32.020 growing
00:41:32.300 up
00:41:32.520 now
00:41:32.840 who
00:41:33.180 start
00:41:33.560 depilating
00:41:34.420 their
00:41:37.140 pubes
00:41:37.760 as soon
00:41:38.220 as the
00:41:38.480 first
00:41:38.740 hair
00:41:38.960 growth
00:41:39.240 starts
00:41:39.840 all
00:41:40.560 so
00:41:40.720 a
00:41:40.880 few
00:41:41.040 companies
00:41:41.480 can
00:41:41.720 sell
00:41:41.920 razors
00:41:42.440 and
00:41:42.700 creams
00:41:43.040 and
00:41:43.240 shit
00:41:43.440 at
00:41:43.620 a
00:41:43.740 rate
00:41:43.900 100
00:41:44.420 times
00:41:44.800 higher
00:41:45.140 than
00:41:45.580 back
00:41:45.860 in
00:41:45.960 the
00:41:46.040 day
00:41:46.220 when
00:41:46.420 men
00:41:46.660 shaved
00:41:46.960 their
00:41:47.160 faces
00:41:47.620 and
00:41:47.920 that
00:41:48.120 was
00:41:48.320 it.
00:41:48.560 So far
00:41:51.460 just
00:41:51.620 another
00:41:51.820 story
00:41:52.120 of
00:41:52.260 marketing
00:41:52.580 manipulation
00:41:53.200 Bernays
00:41:53.760 style
00:41:54.120 with
00:41:54.820 the
00:41:54.940 funny
00:41:55.120 quirk
00:41:55.500 that
00:41:55.760 it's
00:41:56.000 nearly
00:41:56.300 driven
00:41:56.580 the
00:41:56.740 pubic
00:41:57.060 louse
00:41:57.320 to
00:41:57.500 extinction
00:41:58.080 aside
00:41:59.100 from
00:41:59.300 one
00:41:59.440 crazy
00:41:59.780 woman
00:41:59.980 in
00:42:00.140 Norway
00:42:00.420 who's
00:42:00.700 trying
00:42:00.860 to
00:42:01.000 save
00:42:01.220 it.
00:42:02.360 But
00:42:02.560 the
00:42:02.680 real
00:42:02.920 reason
00:42:03.220 he
00:42:03.380 related
00:42:03.720 this
00:42:03.940 conversation
00:42:04.460 was
00:42:04.740 this.
00:42:07.460 Sometime
00:42:07.980 later
00:42:08.240 she
00:42:08.460 left
00:42:08.800 and
00:42:09.220 her
00:42:09.360 parting
00:42:09.600 shot
00:42:09.900 was
00:42:10.080 this.
00:42:11.560 You
00:42:11.660 know
00:42:11.800 what
00:42:11.980 should
00:42:12.260 frighten
00:42:12.660 you?
00:42:13.460 Not
00:42:13.660 that
00:42:13.800 we
00:42:13.900 have
00:42:14.020 a
00:42:14.140 hundred
00:42:14.380 years
00:42:14.740 of
00:42:14.940 practice
00:42:15.360 at
00:42:15.580 manipulating
00:42:16.180 consent
00:42:16.840 but
00:42:17.520 the
00:42:17.660 fact
00:42:17.900 that
00:42:18.040 the
00:42:18.140 manipulators
00:42:18.640 themselves
00:42:19.240 are
00:42:19.800 at
00:42:20.000 least
00:42:20.260 as
00:42:20.460 susceptible
00:42:20.940 to
00:42:21.220 their
00:42:21.360 own
00:42:21.580 products
00:42:21.940 as
00:42:22.140 Joe
00:42:22.440 Publick
00:42:23.020 there's
00:42:23.840 a
00:42:23.920 92%
00:42:24.540 chance
00:42:24.960 that
00:42:25.120 I
00:42:25.460 as
00:42:25.660 an
00:42:25.760 adult
00:42:26.020 single
00:42:26.320 female
00:42:26.680 in
00:42:26.840 the
00:42:26.940 western
00:42:27.140 world
00:42:27.420 have
00:42:27.620 shaved
00:42:27.960 pubes
00:42:28.500 nobody
00:42:29.940 is
00:42:30.140 in
00:42:30.280 control
00:42:30.600 anymore
00:42:31.000 I
00:42:31.340 asked
00:42:31.740 oh
00:42:32.640 no
00:42:32.940 there
00:42:33.320 are
00:42:33.480 shifts
00:42:33.740 of
00:42:33.900 people
00:42:34.120 taking
00:42:34.400 turns
00:42:34.740 at
00:42:34.840 the
00:42:34.920 wheel
00:42:35.160 the
00:42:35.820 problem
00:42:36.060 is
00:42:36.260 we're
00:42:36.500 driving
00:42:36.860 in
00:42:36.980 the
00:42:37.040 dark
00:42:37.320 in
00:42:37.580 unknown
00:42:37.940 territory
00:42:38.480 with
00:42:38.740 the
00:42:38.880 lights
00:42:39.140 out
00:42:39.480 and
00:42:39.740 tinted
00:42:40.060 windows
00:42:40.420 we
00:42:40.900 only
00:42:41.160 care
00:42:41.440 about
00:42:41.680 what's
00:42:42.000 going
00:42:42.200 on
00:42:42.460 inside
00:42:42.820 the
00:42:43.020 bus
00:42:43.340 every
00:42:46.200 single
00:42:46.640 tool
00:42:47.040 that
00:42:47.300 cluster
00:42:47.660 B
00:42:47.820 cults
00:42:48.260 impose
00:42:48.660 upon
00:42:48.940 all
00:42:49.140 of
00:42:49.300 us
00:42:49.560 also
00:42:50.480 gets
00:42:50.760 reflected
00:42:51.200 back
00:42:51.520 at
00:42:51.680 them
00:42:51.900 some
00:42:53.240 people
00:42:53.520 are
00:42:53.660 worrying
00:42:53.940 about
00:42:54.160 5G
00:42:54.780 cell
00:42:55.100 phones
00:42:55.460 and
00:42:56.340 not
00:42:56.580 without
00:42:56.820 reason
00:42:57.200 as
00:42:58.060 Michael
00:42:58.380 Crichton
00:42:58.740 pointed
00:42:59.020 out
00:42:59.200 20
00:42:59.480 years
00:42:59.720 ago
00:42:59.980 we
00:43:00.620 have
00:43:00.900 no
00:43:01.460 idea
00:43:02.080 if
00:43:02.340 cell
00:43:02.560 phones
00:43:02.780 are
00:43:02.920 safe
00:43:03.220 we
00:43:04.300 never
00:43:04.640 actually
00:43:04.980 tested
00:43:05.280 them
00:43:05.520 the
00:43:06.780 technology
00:43:07.380 was
00:43:07.600 too
00:43:08.740 and we
00:43:08.920 didn't
00:43:09.300 want
00:43:09.560 to
00:43:09.700 hear
00:43:09.900 no
00:43:10.260 like
00:43:11.640 the
00:43:11.800 creators
00:43:12.080 of
00:43:12.240 Jurassic
00:43:12.580 Park
00:43:13.000 we
00:43:13.240 never
00:43:13.540 asked
00:43:13.960 if
00:43:14.220 we
00:43:14.380 should
00:43:14.720 do
00:43:14.960 something
00:43:15.380 only
00:43:16.240 if
00:43:16.620 we
00:43:16.840 could
00:43:17.240 but
00:43:19.120 if
00:43:19.280 5G
00:43:20.220 cell
00:43:20.480 phones
00:43:20.920 are
00:43:22.040 harmful
00:43:22.840 to
00:43:23.060 us
00:43:23.340 if
00:43:24.360 they're
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00:43:29.520 cabinet
00:43:29.900 and
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00:43:46.720 introduced
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00:44:17.460 water
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00:44:19.840 of
00:44:19.960 the
00:44:20.080 same
00:44:20.320 aquifer
00:44:20.820 cluster
00:44:23.880 B
00:44:24.180 capture
00:44:24.640 collapse
00:44:25.100 theory
00:44:25.500 summarized
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00:44:29.320 an old
00:44:29.580 saying
00:44:29.980 that
00:44:30.480 fascism
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00:44:34.440 the
00:44:34.540 people
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00:44:35.020 been
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00:44:35.800 abused
00:44:36.400 by their
00:44:36.760 parents
00:44:37.260 who go
00:44:38.140 on to
00:44:38.540 support
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00:44:43.320 current
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00:44:45.820 a bid
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00:44:46.400 power
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00:44:51.020 all
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00:44:51.960 thing
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00:44:55.660 control
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00:44:59.440 virus
00:44:59.880 which
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00:45:22.400 everything
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00:45:27.860 also
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00:45:31.320 can't
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00:45:32.620 world
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