This Is How Control Actually Happens #darktruth #awareness

1 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, TJ Walker reflects on how authoritarian regimes such as Stalin’s Soviet Union and Pol Pot’s Cambodia did not seize power through a single, dramatic event. Instead, he argues that control emerged gradually through daily chaos, constant outrage, and the relentless dominance of a single figure across news, law, and culture. Over time, the abnormal became normalized and turned into background noise, allowing ordinary people to tolerate and live under oppressive systems.

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I used to read about several places like Stalin's Soviet Union or Cambodia under Pol Pot. And I think, how do ordinary people live through that? How do they tolerate it? And the answer I'm starting to understand is this: it didn't feel like one big dramatic collapse. It felt like this daily chaos, constant outrage, the same figure dominating everything— news, law, culture— until there was nothing left, until the abnormal became background noise. Ultimize.