If you do Netflix, you should watch The Push.

[nolabear]

Very interesting hour long British show on compliance, the ability to convince a perfectly normal human being to do the unthinkable.

And yes, the do briefly show a 45 speech as a quick visual.

This is truth, though. Masters of manipulation can control unthinking masses and create any reality they desire.

[Canoe52]

1. We will give it a look see.

[Ilsa]

2. I've been reading a fun set of espionage novels,

not quite as detailed and brilliant as Tom Clancy's stuff, but fun, nonetheless.

They are by Leslie Wolfe. I haven't read the first one, but the second involved Russians trying to rig a presidential election using the software on new voting machines.

The third involved more building a spy network and getting disgruntled contractors for defense contractors to sell secrets.

The fourth involved Russians secretly hijacking a flight of 440 people, including psychiatric doctors, researchers, etc, and making them create an aerosolized drug that would render the victims compliant to hostility, poor judgment, etc, and a separate drug for LEOs to make them violent to cause social unrest. The perps in the book relied too much on pharmaceuticals when psychological manipulation is every bit as effective.

Netflix has some good stuff on right now. I'm also watching the show about 1929 Berlin, and I'd like to see the series about Hitler's Third Reich.

[California_Republic]

3. Thanks. I will take a look

“Everything Sucks” is good. A Stranger Things like cast in a funny coming of age story

[Brainstormy]

4. our Meet Up book club just did

Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain. Right on point.

[Cicada]

5. Shouldnt the show creators be put in jail?

Don’t they cause extreme psychological pain?

The point is interesting but what right do they have to hurt people?

[nolabear]

6. I thought about that a lot. Of course people must have signed off.

But it was stunning what they did and how people responded.

[nuxvomica]

7. My thoughts exactly

The show was very revealing but at what cost? They tortured those poor people. Ironically, it was for a good cause, revealing how dangerously manipulated people can be, just like the premise of the con: to help thousands of children.