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Master Persuader’s Talent Routine
All Publicity is Good Publicity
When I analyze a master persuader routine in the future, I’ll write small digestible articles. It was fun doing in-depth analyses (see previous one here), but I need to respect the principle of “Directing One’s Attention to the Superior Alternative.”
I make your life better by building a philosophical set of statements that works for you. Critiquing a philosophical set of statements by master persuader is less helpful, because we are still all focused on that less effective life philosophy.
This is the “All Publicity is Good Publicity” Principle. When a powerful propaganda outlet like the modern Western news media wants to defeat a narrative, they memory hole it. They direct attention away from the dangerous idea.
All good persuasion and propaganda starts with directing the consumer’s attention in a desired direction. Consider this key principle to understand persuasion better.
Talent is Obvious
I’ll keep this short and sweet. There is plenty of in-depth persuasion analysis in previous articles if you want to read that.
Master persuader’s talent articles/tweets purport to convey valuable wisdom. The reality is that the content of these posts is facile and obvious. Everybody sees talent. It’s obvious. It’s not possible to not see it.
This means the posts are not actionable or useful. They direct your attention towards thoughts that distract you from solving problems and improving your future.
Almost everybody knows what they are talented at already. If you seek more guidance, consider the following: your subconscious can guide you to what you’re good at.
For example, your eyes skim over some words and suddenly focus on certain sentences. That’s a hint. Or, if you are looking at a crowd of faces, your eye often involuntarily focuses in on one face. That’s a hint. Use this principle to make better decisions.
The Imaginary Genetics Denier
The way master persuader makes it seem like his talent posts are insightful is by directing his reader’s attention to a person who “denies genetics.” Properly understood, this preys on the audience’s ability to understand performative vs. sincere behavior.
The reality is that the “genetics denier” is not a person who exists. Master persuader is encouraging his readers to compare themselves with a fictitious person who isn’t smart enough to see the obvious fact that genes matter.
This has two effects. It makes readers feel better, because it sets a benchmark at the floor. It makes readers less smart, because you move towards the people and ideas you think of or interact with. Imagining a person makes you become more like them.
You should be imagining geniuses, elite athletes, and perfect specimens of beauty, and you should seek out and interact with people who are as close to that as possible, because you will become like them.
How do I know the genetics denier doesn’t exist? Actions speak louder than words. Genetics denial is putatively an opinion of the woke left, right? The most prominent banner-wielder of the woke left is AOC, who… has a tall, white, red-headed boyfriend.
Think about it.
Even when woke people get triggered by master persuader’s talent posts and try to argue with him, they do not outright deny genetics. They try to drown the genetics topic in a sea of noise about “social conditions.” This is the same principle I talked about earlier with memory holing.
The woke knows denying genetics is not a winning argument. They instead seek to change the subject. George Orwell referred to this as “thoughtcrime.” A good propaganda unit does not explicitly deny dangerous obvious truths. It directs attention away so that citizens avoid ever thinking of it.
In short, everybody knows talent and genes exist and matter. It’s obvious. Some just shy away from the topic because they know “normal people” will frown at them. What this means is that anyone who takes master persuader’s frame at face value has been convinced to spend valuable mental energy arguing with idiots that the sky is actually blue. Not smart.
Talent Fatalism
The last master persuader effect of this routine can be found in a simple subliminal message of a recent post. He said, “Talent is everything basically.”
The interesting thing about that sentence is that every normal person says “talent is basically everything.” What changes when you flip the words in this weird and unnatural manner? The subliminal message “talent is everything” appears. Remember that the master persuader makes sure to tell the truth, and keeps untruths in the subliminal messages or “in between the lines.”
This is encouragement to fatalism. Talent is obvious, and focusing on it is not actionable, because you can’t change your talent. That means that you are better off focusing elsewhere, since other problems are problems you can actually solve. Master persuader is pushing his readers away from a productive use of their time.
This is a demoralization routine. Remember that your subconscious upgrades the importance of any idea you repeatedly focus on. The you who is not your thoughts adjusts its decision process based on anything you perceive, subliminally or otherwise. So this master persuader routine attacks his reader’s decisions as well.
Understand that the framing of this topic is not in your best interest, and that fighting master persuader by refusing to even accept his premise is how you win. See you underground.