Scaring People to Get Them Super Suggestible: The News's Secret Trick

23 Mar 2023 · 0 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains that to persuade or manipulate an audience, one must first place them in a highly receptive state. This can be achieved by either generating extreme excitement or by inducing intense fear. The speaker argues that when people are scared, they become hyper‑suggestible and are more likely to follow instructions. He claims that news outlets routinely employ fear‑mongering tactics because scared audiences are more compliant. The overall message is an instructional warning about the psychological leverage of fear and excitement in media and persuasion, urging listeners to recognize and overcome the mindset that such tactics are ineffective.

You got to get them into a receptive state. You can do it by getting them super excited. You can do it by scaring the shit out of them. You can go, ah, and get them super scared, and they'll become super suggestible in that moment. That's why the news always scaring the shit out of people, because people do what you tell them to do when they scared. People become super suggestible. They become hyper-suggestible when they're scared. But yeah, just get— you got to get yourself in a state where you're not like, well, that won't work because of this, and that won't work because you can't do nothing from there.