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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Fear is indeed the key tool of this mass persuasion campaign, but it’s not new—it has been the fundamental ingredient from the outset, as I detail in my first essay, “Primer for the Propagandized: Fear Is the Mind-Killer” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized). Fear is also central to Biderman’s Chart of Coercion, which I address in my “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant).

Laura Dodsworth (https://lauradodsworth.substack.com/) has been writing eloquently about the role of fear in UK propagandizing; see her book, “A State of Fear.”

Barry O'Kenyan's avatar

They already have! The vaxed/unvaxed; the lockdowners/no-lockdowners; masked/unmasked.

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