Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Stop letting media manipulate your emotions

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video arguing that television and social media are designed to capture attention and manipulate emotions. The speaker describes media content as 'parasitic'—intentionally provoking emotional upheaval to move people away from reason and toward impulsive, emotion-driven responses.

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If you look around you, everything on TV trying to grab your attention, trying to get the money out of your pocket, trying to exploit you for sex, and all the things that are out there are parasitic entities and or energies trying to pull your eyeballs away from your life and into where they want your attention. All the stuff that's happening in the sphere of media and social media, it is all designed to evoke an emotional upheaval and get us to just not be sitting on our perch, to get us on tilt so that we can be influenced by emotions instead of reason.