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February 12, 2025 20 mins

Echo chambers.

All I hear when I listen to the news, when I tune into both liberal and conservative pundits, when I flip through the stories and videos on X, are a whole lot of fading echos. I hear the echos of thoughts that must have come from somewhere, but that 99% of the time are certainly not coming from the people flapping their gums.

How do I know this?

Because they are all repeating the same phrases, using the same words, and even mimicking the same emotional intonations and facial expressions.

This mimicking is perfectly natural human behavior. It starts in infancy and continues throughout our entire lives. We cannot help but to mimic, to pick up on words and phrases, or begin mirroring the emotion and expressions of others. There is no shame in doing so, because we are biologically hardwired to do exactly that.

In fact, this phenomenon is pervasive throughout the natural world, throughout the infinite variety of animal and plant life, right down to the cellular level. The science of all of this has been thoroughly studied, and the implications are astounding.

BUT… what does any of this have to do with Donald Trump, DOGE, and getting our country back on track, right? I’m sure that’s what you’d like to know.

The simple answer, is that our biological predilection for mimicry is being exploited by the global cabal through the use of memetic warfare. Put differently, the powers that be are hijacking human nature, at the deepest levels, to consolidate control.

As I watched a bit of the DOGE committee hearing this morning, what struck me the most was that neither side was listening—for the most part, they were all just mimicking and regurgitating the talking points fed to them by staff, who in turn likely pulled the language from “trusted” news sources, which have become the wellspring of globalist propaganda.

Before proceeding, I want to make a few things perfectly clear:

* There is almost always a thread of truth in any propaganda.

* Propaganda is a tool that is used by powers on both left and right.

* Propaganda itself is not synonymous with memetic warfare.

To the last point first, the way that memetic warfare works is by introducing a thought that has been scientifically calculated to capture attention. This is why DARPA spent millions of taxpayer dollars developing Military Grade Memes that guarantee these carefully calculated infectious ideas will spread.

Once these mental worms infect the mind, once these scientific memes take hold, they skillfully direct one’s attention toward the targeted thought, while simultaneously defending against attacks from logic and counter-narratives. This is done by using specific language to activate certain parts of the brain and emotionally charge the mind, thereby shutting down the ability to think for one’s self.

Along with heightening suggestibility, and thus susceptibility to further deception, this form of mental attack also begins to crowd the mind as the memes (again, in the scientific sense) rapidly replicate in order to propagate and spread. The result is mental pressure, which often manifests as blurting out regurgitated talking points.

I’ll venture to guess that most people have never thought about thoughts like this, because most people are not acquainted with the science of memetics. To give you a taste of the longstanding science, consider this excerpt from TR 301 - Memes, Memetics, & Mental Warfare:

“As I began to dig into this new world of me

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