Pattern interruptions can be used to heal people’s minds in psychotherapy, but also to mess up with their heads. And since you got my Elon Musk’s mind tricks video to 10.000 likes, here’s my promised video about this topic. In this video, you will learn… – How indirect compliments at the WRONG time can be a powerful tool to prime people’s minds on your favor. – How manipulators use patterns interruptions on themselves to confuse you, and – How to react when you realize someone is trying to use this mental tactic against you. These tips are 100% practical, so by the end of this video you will be able not only to spot them but also apply them in your daily life. Welcome back, my body language buddies!
You can think of it as an unexpected action that jolts them into a different state of mind. Some people think this comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming and yes, studying NLP can give you different pattern interruptions for behavioral change, but it comes from way back in time. In my opinion, one of the pioneers to this technique was Milton Erickson.
But the fundamentals are pretty much the same regardless of if you’re using it for psychotherapy or to defend yourself against manipulation.
The first step is 1) Recognizing an unwanted pattern, which for our purposes, could be any kind of behavior. 2) disrupting it, by means of a word or a physical stimulus, or both, and then 3) lead the person away from the original behavior and into the desired behavior. Needless to say, this implies moral and ethics, since you will be dealing directly with people’s free will.
So, there’s something that has to be said before you learn to use pattern interruptions. As any other mental warfare tool, you can use it to defend yourself, or you can use it to attack other people.
It’s like a hammer. You can use it to build things, but some can use it for nefarious acts. So, I’m assuming that you are going to use this knowledge for self-defense. And if you’re afraid that toxic personalities could use this video and knowledge for their own purposes, well, I have bad news for you.
They already how to use this for their own purposes.
So that’s why I’m interested in you acquiring these tools so you can spot them instantly when someone tries to use them against you. That’s why our first step is the most important. Not everyone that interrupts is doing it out of malice. Some people are just unpolite, some of them just have little patience for you to finish what you’re saying, but it doesn’t mean that they are bad people. So, once someone interrupts you, make sure you pay attention to what happens next.
The easiest pattern interruption EVER is the compliment. Everybody likes to hear something nice about themselves, the problem is that everyone has a built-in BS detector that just knows when the compliment is not genuine. And the kind of compliments that I’m talking about is actions. Not people’s appearance, or how nice they look, nothing of the sort. The best compliment for a pattern interruption has to be about an action of the past.
Something that the person did. And of course, we are talking about a live conversation, wether it’s in person or through the phone. But the trick is that everyone expects that you say the compliment around the time of greeting. Let’s say that John meets Arthur and John knows that Arthur gave a great speech a few days back. They stumble upon each other, greet each other, and the like, and then Arthur begins to talk about an upcoming project.
That’s when John interrupts him and says, “Hey, sorry to interrupt you, but I forgot to tell you that your speech was amazing!” That is a pattern interruption with a compliment about an action. Now, let’s break down this sentence to see how it works.”Hey, sorry to interrupt you, but I forgot to tell you that your speech was amazing!” The first one is just being polite.”Sorry to interrupt you”. This is fundamental, because ok, people like compliments, but nobody likes to be interrupted. Excusing yourself takes a bit away from that feeling. Then the words, “I forgot to tell you.” Notice that you could simply say, “sorry to interrupt you, your speech was amazing!”.
But adding that you forgot to tell something, is a tiny self-deprecating bit, as in, your memory failed you. That will make you sound more human, because of your flawed memory, and at the same time will increase their trust in you.
Finally, you say the compliment itself. “Your speech was amazing”, or “Your cake was delicious”, or “Your game was impressive”. I cannot stress this enough. It HAS to be about something that the person DID. Combining all these factors, the interruption will be more than welcome.
And will prime the person in a positive way towards you. Now, how can you tell if someone is using compliments as pattern interruptions against you? Well, manipulators can, and will, use this whenever you’re criticizing or arguing with them. You could be expressing how disappointed or frustrated you are about something that they did and (pop!) they will interrupt you with a compliment.
In fact, manipulators can even use this kind of interruptions on themselves. They could be making all these excuses, trying to convince you of something, and then… out of nowhere, they suddenly stop and pop a compliment out of the blue, such as: “By the way, I know this has nothing to do with this discussion, but thank you for doing X for me, the other day” Notice that this, more than being a compliment, is being thankful for something that YOU did FOR them.
It it a subconscious reminder that you care about them, and if you care about them, then you should at least listen to what they are saying right now. They won’t wait for any reaction on your part. They will go straight back to their excuses, but the seed was planted. Now that you noticed that a manipulator is trying to minimize what they did by using a pattern interruption disguised as a compliment, what can you do? Well, first of all, we have to address a fundamental fact of life.
You should not be around manipulators.
Period. You cannot “cure” or “transform” them, so the only thing you can do is deal with them. So please understand that when I give you tools to counteract their toxic behavior, it is only intended to give you some space and time while you cut them off your life. You don’t want to be permanently dealing with this kind of people.
So, they say, “Oh, thank you for doing X for me, the other day”, and since they will go straight back to their excuses… YOU will need to interrupt them, saying something like this: “Yes, I did it because I trust you, but that trust in you, made me look like a fool this time.” It might sound counterintuitive, because you’re making yourself look bad, or a fool.
But this is for a very good reason. When you’re dealing with a manipulator and you say words that describe your feelings, such as “You made me look like a fool”, “I feel so sad about how you treat me”, or the like, pay close attention to their body language, especially their face.
Someone who feels delighted of doing this to you, will show pleasure on their faces. They are confirming that they have power over you, and your feelings. That makes them feel good and superior.
Now, they won’t do it if you’re looking directly at them. That’s why one of the body language lessons I always recommend in my courses and books is to learn to use your peripheral vision, so you say these words, looking slightly away from them, but still paying attention at their faces. In general, any pattern interruption will spark a body language reaction, so it helps a lot to keep an eye on people while you’re applying this tactic. At first it’s going to be a bit difficult to keep track of so many signals, but practice makes perfect. There are many other kinds of pattern interruptions, not to mention the ones based on body language.
The handshake pattern interruptions are especially useful. So, here’s my promise again: If THIS video gets to 10.000 likes, I will make another video about this topic. So, let’s recap these freshly acquired tools so you can apply them as soon as you finish watching this video: – Compliments are the easiest form of pattern interruptions, but only if you use them at the ‘wrong’ time.
Make sure you make them about the person’s actions.
This is fundamental. – Manipulators will use these pattern interruptions to prime your subconscious, not only because everyone likes to receive a compliment, but also because they remind you that you, to some extent, trust them. So it helps to spot these obvious attempts to manipulate you. – No matter how you use interruption patterns, it’s paramount that you learn to observe people’s body language so you can spot their reactions. Learn to use your peripheral vision.
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It’S absurd and immoral for teachers to call boys, girls and girls boys do your job. A culture. War is a battle over how we live when we talk about the red and blue divide in the United States. Very often we’re talking about cultural differences. Wokeness teaching in schools and in corporate training, as opposed to War and Peace abroad or the economy, but the idea of fighting over symbols, a fear that the other side is trying to fundamentally change.
The country goes way: back John Charles Fremont. We run into his name today, all over the place, without perhaps realizing who he was Tes Los cars manufactured in Fremont California, in Wyoming mountain climbers, climb, Fremont Peak. There is a Fremont New York, Fremont Nebraska, the names are everywhere and they are signs of a time when John Charles Fremont was possibly the most famous living American. As the country expanded Westward by annexing land, John Fremont’s life moved Westward along with it. He led a number of expeditions out west.
He wrote These official IAL US Army reports, but he wrote them almost like novels. That put him at the center of this larger American narrative and his reports became the equivalent of best-selling books read all across the United States. Those new western territories created real issues in the American political system. It raised this question of whether that land should have slavery or shouldn’t have slavery. The wig party ultimately collapsed over the slavery issue and the Democratic party had conflict within it.
This opened a lane for the creation of the Republican party, which was anti-slavery and when it ran its first candidate, John Fremont in 1856, it Unleashed a culture War.
One of John’s symbols was his wife. Jesse Fremont was the daughter of a very powerful United States Senator she was a very attractive political figure, and it was suggested by Republicans at first that this was a brilliant Innovation and really great people on the other side immediately turned that into a disadvantage. They said she was the one who was really wearing the pants in the relationship and represented this radical women’s rights agenda. They argued Jesse Fremont is trying to upend the entire order of society.
Slavery was the issue in American politics, but gender and race are intertwined if Southerners are arguing. A man is at the head of a household and has control over his wife, his children and his slaves. If somebody questions the gender issue, then that also leads them to question the slavery issue. They implied because his wife was so independent. Fremont was emasculated by that he couldn’t control his wife and he couldn’t control the country also. He parted his hair in the middle. At the time, only women parted their hair in the middle. It made him too womanly the in the number of daily newspapers fed by a nationwide Telegraph Network and spread by railroad trains meant that people were getting a lot more political commentary in their face.
All the time, whipping up fear demonizing the other side. Immigration was part of that. Fremont was the son of a French immigrant. France was a Catholic country, and so Fremont’s political opponents began spreading the false story that he himself was a member of this alien religion controlled by the pope. It was said who were plotting to take over America. The Republicans were not refraining from participating in this culture.
War compared to John Fremont, who was young and had this beautiful wife, Democratic candidate, James Buchanan, Was A Bachelor. There were questions about why a 60-some year-old man in the 1850s had never once married there’s some speculation about whether James Buchanan was in fact gay. He argued he was married to the Constitution, and voters could trust him because he wouldn’t be distracted by a woman like John Fremont there’s a cartoon that represents the whole Democratic case that Fremont was going to profoundly change society. There is a Catholic priest really offensively portrayed free black man, a socialist demanding all land be distributed.
Equally, a woman’s rights activist smoking, a cigar which was a very unfeminine thing to do, and a free love activist portrayed as being really skinny, which at the time was unattractive and she’s, inviting John Fremont to join their group. In order to elect an anti-slavery president Republicans had to win virtually all the northern states. They did not it’s hard in retrospect without exit polls or anything else, to prove exactly what turned a particular election. But we know that Democrats raised immense fear about cultural change, and they prevailed. 1856 for Democrats was a bit of a hollow victory for two reasons.
One was that they elected James Buchanan, who is now roundly considered the worst president in American history, and he opened up a broader culture war that contributed to the Civil War.
The Civil War and its aftermath ended slavery. It did not end at all many of the cultural battles that flashed up in that time. In the 1850s, the Republicans were thought of as more Progressive. Now today, obviously, that’s flipped culture.
Wars remain an incredibly powerful force in American politics. They draw people in, and they force people to choose sides:
China has big plans. It aims to become the world’s foremost economic and military power by 2049, the centennial of the People’s Republic. This is what Xi Jinping calls his “China Dream.” Dreaming is one thing, but reality often tells a very different. story.
True, China has been spending a lot of money on its military, and on the surface, the results appear to have paid off.
The country has modernized its air force, created an arsenal of missiles, and built up its navy. However, these efforts didn’t stop a scandal from breaking out in late 2023 and early 2024 that brought significant embarrassment to China’s military, and that was only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the hood of this grandeur, not all is as it seems. Behind the glittering façade, China faces personnel, logistics, command, and even equipment problems that would prove troublesome in a real war.
In this video, we’ll look at some of the reasons why China’s military is actually weaker than you think. Number ten.
Keeping its soldiers alive is one of the more important things a military organization can do. The loss of too many soldiers not only risks the political capital needed to keep a war effort going, it also ensures the loss of experienced troops, forcing the need to call up less experienced replacements.
These less experienced replacements tend to die faster, and so a cycle is created.
Russia has experienced such a spiral in its war in Ukraine. The steady influx of poorly trained conscripts has resulted in the Russian military taking more casualties than Ukraine even in the times it’s been on the defensive, as was the case in the Zaporizhzhia campaign a year ago. Providing proper body armor goes a long way in keeping soldiers alive on the battlefield. This has proven to be a notorious problem in the Russian ranks, especially for the soldiers that were mobilized after the war began. These troops tend to come from the country’s poorer and minority backgrounds, who cannot easily afford the body armor the Russian state has often been unable to supply.
Russia turned to China to provide components or completed sets of body armor to mitigate some of these disadvantages, but as it turns out, the Chinese equipment hasn’t done dashingly. Ukrainian soldiers that have captured some of the sets of Chinese body armor have taken to selling them online.
Tests of the same armor in American military laboratories provide some clues about the reasons why. The ceramic plates in the Chinese body armor succeeded in stopping common small arms rounds, like the 7.62mm, meaning that these bullets would not puncture the body of the soldier wearing the vest.
However, the plates also showed significant deformation from the impact, meaning that they would not be as effective in preventing their wearer from suffering blunt force trauma. They failed to stop and disperse the energy. Significant injuries or deaths would be common to the wearer of this particular form of body armor. Since many Chinese soldiers would be wearing similar body armor in a confrontation, we can expect similar results on the battlefield. Maybe the soldiers in China’s People’s Liberation Army understand this, which brings us to number nine.
Service in the armed forces of some sort is mandatory in China, but the military nevertheless has trouble keeping its ranks intact. In January 2021, the PLA announced it would be giving its troops a 40% pay increase, particularly for troops on the stationed on the border and promising officers. This decision was made in an effort to boost recruitment of career soldiers, especially among troops with college degrees, which the Chinese brass wants to make up 70% of the total going forward. Incentives for future employment are part of this strategy, too, as China’s state-owned enterprises give preferential treatment to PLA veterans. This, and the pay raise, seems to have worked in boosting desired recruitment.
However, China is falling far short of retaining its personnel, especially the most talented among them.
Only 35% of troops who completed their service in the PLA chose to reenlist to active duty. Even fewer of those who had college degrees have chosen to stay. In contrast, 55% of the total troops across the branches in the US military reenlist. This ensures the creation of steady career officers and NCOs with experience that pays dividends in an actual confrontation.
China does not have similar resources to call on. Senior officers in the Chinese military are also lowly-paid. For example, a colonel in the PLA made about $37,200 per year in 2021. Brigadier generals made $42,000. This is less than a private in the US Marine Corps, who made $43,800 in the same year.
Additionally, China does not have an equivalent to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veteran care and benefits is much less robust than in the United States. China might have a large defense budget, but it spends its money unevenly. Weapons and equipment are prioritized overcompensation for personnel. This is a problem for recruitment, retention, and building capable, experienced soldiers.
It has also led to corruption. For example, there have been reports of Chinese officers selling the solid fuel in their units’ missiles to use as flammable material for cooking food. Russia’s incompetent handling of its invasion of Ukraine proved how much personnel can matter in conducting a conflict. Corruption within the Russian ranks has ensured that troops are not adequately supplied, ballooning casualties. China would likely face many of the same problems in a war even with its smaller neighbors, let alone the United States.
Problem number eight is that China’s navy lacks aerial capability. In contrast, the United States Navy is as capable in the skies as it is on the seas.
It has the world’s second largest number of total aircraft for any military force, just behind the Air Force. The US Navy in fact flies about as many aerial missions as the Air Force does. Such missions give it an intelligence and experience advantage that China cannot compete with in the skies above the waves.
China, on the other hand, has a serious shortage of trained naval aviators. It may have built the world’s largest navy and prioritized maritime warfare in recent years, but this is atypical of China’s historical experience. With the brief exception of the treasure fleets commanded by the admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century, China has been a land power, concentrating on creating the strong army it needed to defend its long frontiers.
To this day, China is tied with Russia at having the most neighbors, bordering 14 other countries. Not all of these frontiers are naturally defensible, meaning that China must maintain a comparatively larger land force than the United States.
Nevertheless, because of China’s containment within the First Island Chain and its vulnerability to a hostile power cutting off its maritime trade routes, Beijing has felt the demand for a strong naval force. Unfortunately for the Communist Party, institutional knowledge and experience doesn’t come as easily as building new equipment. Traditionally, China’s Navy and Air Force trained in the same institution – a talk about its “new kid on the block” status when it comes to naval aviation. This was contrary to more experienced maritime countries, and China’s Navy finally established an independent school to train its aviators in 2017. However, this institution has lacked the expert knowledge and equipment needed to train China’s naval aviators up to the standards of their American counterparts.
It will be a long time to accrue the experience to reach parity with the United States. China’s equipment in this area is also lacking. Its current plane for training aviators for carrier-based missions is the JL-9G. This plane is too slow and too light to produce all of the maneuvers needed to take off and land on a carrier, which is why pilots need to train on land-based simulated carriers. China also lacks carrier planes.
The Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark is its go-to plane for now, but only 60 have been built as of 2023. The end result?
China might have three aircraft carriers with a fourth on the way, but it will struggle to fully staff these carriers. What good is an aircraft carrier without aircraft or pilots? At that point, you have only built an expensive parade ship.
Number seven – more ships does not mean more power. China’s navy has a lot of vessels, but most of these are lighter, less combat-ready ones, like corvettes and frigates. China’s navy has no cruisers and 49 destroyers, compared to America’s 22 cruisers and 70 destroyers. China therefore remains far behind the United States in ship tonnage. As of 2022, the PLAN had a combined total of about 1.3 million tons between all its ships. The US Navy had about 4.5 million tons. China has the advantage of being able to concentrate all of its forces in the waters where a confrontation would happen. The US Navy wouldn’t be able to do this because of its global commitments.
However, leaders in Beijing still understand that they would lose in a direct confrontation with even part of the US Navy.
This is why China relies on an anti-access/area denial strategy.
This strategy centers on electronic warfare and an arsenal of missiles. China’s ships may be capable of bullying smaller nations like the Philippines, but against the US Navy, they have a much taller task, despite their outward show. Number six – China is even more severely lacking in underseas warfare.
Although it is developing two new nuclear submarines, the Type 095 and Type 096, that would make up for some of its disadvantages, these are still years away.
In the meantime, China is operating mostly with diesel-electric submarines that don’t have the depth, speed, or staying power of America’s nuclear submarines. Meanwhile, its current nuclear submarines, the Type 093 and 094, are few in number and very noisy. They are too small to cancel noise effectively, making them easy to discover by a competent anti-submarine force. Meanwhile, China is lacking in anti-submarine warfare experience, and this will be even harder for it to get than the new submarines.
China hopes to break the threat that the US submarine fleet poses to it at critical chokepoints in the First Island Chain, but this hope is still many years away. Number five – inadequate strategy. As mentioned, China relies on an anti-access/area denial strategy to mitigate some of the disadvantages it would face in a direct confrontation with the US military.
However, the United States has methods to mitigate this strategy. Its advantage in submarine warfare is one, but even some surface vessels, like the three Zumwalt-class destroyers, would be hard for China to detect.
America’s stealth aircraft are also present in the region. All of these assets can be armed with long range missiles that can destroy critical infrastructure, like China’s artificial islands, even before their platforms enter the A2/AD zone. The stockpiling of the stealth and jam-resistant LRASM anti-ship missile also poses a severe threat to China’s navy that the A2/AD strategy cannot adequately compensate for. The United States is also focusing its efforts to developing technologies specifically designed to further counter China’s A2/AD strategy and equipment in the region.
The arsenal of missiles it is hiding behind will not be as effective a decade from now as it is today, which is a big problem for Beijing.
Number four – incomplete or failed military reforms. The PLA used to have an incomprehensible command structure. Xi Jinping began to change this in 2015, streamlining chains of command along American lines and creating new services, such as the Rocket Force, Joint Logistics Support Force, and Strategic Support Force, which manages information and cyberwarfare. Since these organizations are new, they haven’t fully established how to effectively operate. The new units were not specialist forces created from scratch but cobbled together from formerly disparate entities.
The same people and even phone numbers have been more or less retained from old organizations and combined, which has led to problems with cohesion. For example, China’s new JLSF, now tasked with providing logistical support to theater commands, is still in its infancy, and it is still figuring out how to conduct operations like airlifts. Although China now has heavy-lift transport aircraft like the Y-20, the JLSF is still in the process of designing methods of airdropping armored vehicles.
One Chinese source summed it up best: “owning advanced weapons does not equate to being able to use them well.” Because the JLSF is new, with personnel still mostly taken from pre-existing organizations that sometimes did not specialize in logistics, progress has been slow.
This brings us to number three – lack of logistical capability. Russia’s logistical hardship in its geographical backyard was an embarrassment for the Kremlin. China has a much harder logistical mission. It seeks to build a “strategic” military capable of power projection beyond its borders into its region and further afield. However, China lacks the necessary bases to do this.
Its only overseas military base is in Djibouti. More importantly, China still relies on civilian ports of call, tankers, and strategic airlifts to conduct its operations overseas. This is part of China’s military-civil fusion strategy, which has some benefits, but a lack of specialized military transports severely limits Beijing’s ability to project power overseas.
Civilian technology cannot fully compensate for all military functions. It simply cannot bring as much stuff to a fight over the same distances as the United States can, despite the American homeland being even further away from contested regions of the world.
China is slowly growing more capable, with 67 Y-20 military transport aircraft in its fleet as of 2023, but production has been slow.
In 2014, China’s air force recommended the acquisition of 400 Y-20 aircraft by 2030, but Jane’s estimates the most realistic goal is between 100 and 125. China will therefore continue to rely on civilian transports, which will weaken its ability to deploy troops and specialized military equipment. China’s lack of equipment and experience in logistical operations over vast distances would be a big problem in a confrontation, which leads to the next hidden weakness. Number two – China’s military has not seen combat in half a century.
The last time was in the brief Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979.
This conflict came after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. China’s initial attack across the border achieved modest successes, but the PLA wound up performing poorly against the battle-hardened Vietnamese troops and failed to succeed in its goal of dislodging the Vietnamese from Cambodia. Nonpartisan sources estimate that China suffered between 7,900 to 26,000 deaths and between 23,000 to 37,000 wounded. Vietnam’s total casualties may have been between 20,000 and 50,000.
Since the war lasted for only a few weeks, the losses were high and made worse for the PLA because it usually did not face Vietnam’s most elite units.
PLA troops succeeded when they had had significant enough numerical superiority to overwhelm the defenders in costly frontal assaults, a little like Russia’s situation in Ukraine today – and recall that Russia’s military had more experience before its costly invasion than China’s currently has. China has conducted routine drills, including with partner countries like Russia, in an attempt to get its units more experience, but there is no substitute for the real thing. China’s show of military prowess off Taiwan in recent years is a clear demonstration of the increase in its power.
The comparison between now and the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis of the mid-1990s is obvious.
Yet, these are still just demonstrations. Russia’s military was good at making demonstrations before its invasion of Ukraine revealed deep-rooted problems. China’s military is almost certainly the same, which brings us directly to the last big problem on this list. Number one – by law, the People’s Liberation Army and all of its branches is not even a national military. It is the Communist Party’s armed force, representing its wishes and doing its bidding, not the nation’s.
For all of the progress it has made on the equipment front, the PLA cannot shake off this ideological mandate. 20 to 30% of the training time for a soldier in the PLA is spent on ideological functions, with 40% of the time in induction training spent on such tasks. The PLA also has political commissars. These troops have an official rank equivalent to commander and ensure that all soldiers in their units (which they have dossiers on) are behaving correctly.
The commissars must approve of any promotion or disciplinary action, which in effect makes them superior even to the commanding officer of a particular unit.
The commissars also act as the unit’s spiritual, mental health, and welfare officers. This is not something the PLA can change. Lessening the ideological training and power of the political officers would negate the military’s quality of being the armed forces of the Communist Party, rather than the nation. China cannot make its military apolitical. A politicized military is essential to keeping the Communist Party in power.
While all wars are first and foremost political affairs, having your military act as a political organization is a recipe for failure, and we need not look far for an example. In 2018, a battalion in China’s 15th Airborne Army did a simulated combat jump against an opposing force in China’s western desert.
It was not an ideal time to do such an operation, since there were high winds, but the CO ordered the exercise to go ahead. Many injuries occurred in the jump, including some platoon and company commanders. In one company, the political commissar took over.
He did not immediately establish a new chain of command and attempt to make the mission work. Instead, he first ensured that the political commissar system was still in place to carry out ideological conformity. In the time he lost doing so, the enemy force the battalion faced in the exercise inflicted crushing casualties on its remaining troops. This would be a major problem in a confrontation with the United States. China may have much more sophisticated weapons than it did years ago, but without the right training and doctrine, their use will be less effective than their potential.
We have seen this dynamic play out on the battlefields of Ukraine, and China’s military is less experienced and equally or more politically charged than Russia’s is. It’s for this reason more than any other why the PLA is weaker than you think. Do you agree with our list of China’s hidden military weaknesses? And for what other reasons might China’s armed forces be comparatively lacking? Don’t forget to let us know in the comments.
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Something else that went like super viral, and this one really did it for me. 10 million people viewed it and just take a look. – Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, my name is, Caitlin.
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Where are you, Caitlin? Oh my God.
It’s so nice to meet you, oh my God. – Oh my gosh, I am so excited to meet you live and in person. Okay, I can’t believe I’m getting to ask you the question that I’ve been thinking of since I’ve seen the video. Well, it was the first time of like 15. – Right, sure.
Maybe more. What was so funny? – Okay, so I’m an admissions counselor for the University of Central Arkansas. I’m going to a scholarship ceremony to present scholarships to all of the students that are coming to the university I represent. And they told us beforehand, get there early because you’re going in the order that you arrive.
Like you’re presenting in the order that you arrive. So, I was like, okay. Got there super early. Apparently, everybody else had the same idea. I was 17th to present for this ceremony.
So, I was sitting for about two hours before I actually went on stage. And I went up to the counselor before I went on stage and I was like “do you want me to present all 50 of these scholarships by name, by scholarship name, and by amount?” And she cut her eyes at me so hard and said, “oh God, no.” And that made me chuckle. So, I was laughing when I went up on stage and then I was looking at a thousand people and I could see students and parents laughing at me.
And I was like, “get it together, Caitlin. Get it together. Get it together.” And so then I was like, “all right, it’s fine, I got this.” As I’m walking away and then I turn back around and clear my mic, I mean, clear my throat into the microphone.
And I was like I just coughed in front of a thousand people. So that didn’t help. – I mean, I just related to this video so much too because I’ve been in some situations where I am holding people up because I’ve got the giggles and it’s not like cute little giggles. It’s like- – Tea kettling. – Yes.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay is a study on crowd psychology and is extremely relevant to the present day, despite being written back in 1841. It explores how easily we can be misled and how illogically we can think when popular opinion influences us. Peter Thiel once said “The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself”. This I believe to be true. We were warned against blindly following the masses by Charles Mackay a long time ago.
There have been many fads in recent years but they are by no means a recent phenomenon. People have been doing crazy things for centuries. Mackay’s central theme in the book is that the tendency of humans to develop a herd mentality leads to individuals in the herd to act and react to various stimuli.
The reactions are very similar and predictable and this “madness” leads to a downward spiral with undesirable effects.
His book highlights several stories from history of various manias that took place.
There are lessons to be learned from them in the present day. Here are two of my favourites from the book. Europe in the 1600s. In the Netherlands, the simple tulip was seen at the time as a novelty item for the very rich. From here, the tulip bulb developed into more of a status symbol for the middle and upper classes in society.
At this point the value of tulip bulbs began to significantly increase. The mania didn’t stop there though. The bulbs started being purchased by investors and were traded for exorbitant amounts of money, property and anything else of value. 12 acres of land were being offered for a single bulb. As the prices went up, so did the wildness of the speculation from some people.
Looking to make a profit, even the poor invested their life savings into buying tulips due to the fact that everybody else was, an illogical reason of course. This speculation led to a lot of people losing a lot of money when the market price for overvalued tulips inevitably fell back to their fundamental value.
Much of this “madness” still occurs today. People sleep outside an Apple store for days to buy the new iPhone on the day it comes out, when they could just walk in the store and purchase it a few weeks later. The real estate bubble and subsequent house price crash in 2007 is a prime example of a large-scale mania.
It is easy to identify a bubble in hindsight, but if you are involved in the bubble, it is imperative to spot it before it bursts if you don’t want to lose a lot of time or money. Always be aware of when the market value of a product is more than its intrinsic value, so you don’t get swept up in the “madness”. You can succeed by independently developing your own plan. Across Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, many witch trials took place.
The trials came about because at the time, bad luck was attributed to supernatural causes.
This mass-superstition proved to be extremely dangerous with thousands of innocent people dying as a result of the cases. Many of the trials had very low standards of evidence and often came about as a way to settle old scores between neighbours or acquaintances. In England, a self-styled “Witch-finder general” called Matthew Hopkins travelled around East Anglia, making a point of appearing wherever there was an accusation of somebody being a witch. He would assist the judges with his knowledge on witches, leading to them carrying out many miscarriages of justice. He charged a large sum for his services, using the fear of witchcraft, which had spread like wildfire amongst the public, to extort money from the local authorities.
He received extra money for identifying a witch and devised tests such as tying the accused’s hands and feet together and putting them in the river.
If they sank, they were innocent (but drowned). If they floated, they were deemed to be a witch and burnt at the stake. Modern day witch hunts continue to this day. There is evidence of this all around us.
From entire groups of people being persecuted in various parts of the world to the online abuse of individuals where the pitch forks have been replaced with keyboards. When a person is accused and identified on social media, there is often no fair trial, no hearing of both sides of the story and no critical analysis. When sharing information online, we need to be careful, especially if that information condemns or vilifies another individual. Nobody wants to be the target of a witch hunt, but we should also not want to participate in one. In an interesting twist to our witch-finder story, the imposter Matthew Hopkins met an untimely death due to his own notoriety, using his own witch-finding method.
An angry mob from a village he was visiting believed that to find so many witches, he must have been a wizard who had acquired a book from Satan. The book listed all the names of the so-called witches and he was therefore working with the devil. He was thrown in the river and tested using his own method. Some say that he sank, others say that he floated and was then tried and executed. What’s sure is that either way, with no other evidence, he met his demise at the hands of the angry mob.
This video is brought to you by captivating history. The American revolution refers to a seismic moment in history. First because of the fact it led to the formation of the United States, a country whose economic and military power has been felt across the world. The massachusetts minutemen, who fired the shots heard around the world at lexington and concord likely had little idea of the eventual influence that their rebellion against british taxation would have.
Secondly, the causes that the revolution came to represent liberty, representation, freedom and independence laid the foundations for social democracies for the following centuries. Famous figures, such as George, Washington, Thomas Jefferson and john Adams could not have foreseen the almost holy reverence with which their words have been treated since, while the effects of the revolution may not have been immediately revolutionary, it’s clear that the 13 colonies struggle for independence from British rule has had a significant and lasting impact as with any revolutionary moment, it’s vital to take a step back and examine the causes and progression leading up to the eventual British surrender in 1783. Most studies of the American revolution trace its beginnings to the seven years: war 1756-1763, a conflict with the French over territory that ended with a British victory, the seven years’ war solidified Britain’s stance as the most dominant European country in the world, as it gained vast tracts Of land in the process, however, as Britain tried to increase control of its American colonies in a variety of ways, colonists began rebelling the expense of conflict had led to new and unpopular taxes.
The British government attempted to raise revenue by taxing the colonies first with the stamp act of 1765 and then with the Townsend acts of 1767 and the t act of 1773. This led to increasing resentment. The colonists felt that these taxes were unfair since they were being taxed without any representation in parliament. The growing protests posed a simple question: why didn’t the colonists have the same rights as british subjects? Two events in boston in the early 1770s fanned the flames of resentment. Further first in 1770, colonial resistance was met with violence at the boston massacre in which british soldiers killed five men after opening fire at a protesting mob. Second, in 1773, in response to the tea act, a group of bostonians boarded british ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into boston harbor.
These acts were catalysts for more resentment as a vicious circle of retaliatory punitive measures from the British government only served to further enrage the colonists Massachusetts and the new England area was now seen as a hotbed of rebellion, and the stage was set for an escalation into War, a group of delegates decided to meet in September 1774 to see what could be done about the situation. The first continental congress included the likes of George Washington from virginia as well as john and samuel Adams from Massachusetts. They did not demand independence at this first meeting, but they did issue a declaration of the rights due to every citizen, including life, liberty, property assembly and trial by jury, a forerunner for what would come later.
They were frustrated by taxation, but also at the continued British military presence in the colonies, an issue that would rear its head very soon. They agreed to meet for a second congress. In the convening time between congresses war broke out. On april 18, 1775 british soldiers marched to concord to seize an arms cache that had been stockpiled by colonial militiamen. The two sides clashed at the battle of Lexington and concord, marking the first formal battle of the revolutionary war. It was from this night that we also get one of the great tales and heroic figures of the revolution, that of Paul revere and the other men riding through the night to sound the alarm and prepare the Massachusetts militia by the time. The second congress met in the summer of 1775 with new additions such as Benjamin franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Anti-British views were entrenched.
They voted to raise a continental army with Washington, as commander-in-chief thus began a series of battles throughout the fall and winter, starting with the battle of bunker hill in Boston, though it was a victory for the British.
These early skirmishes actually supplied encouragement for the lowly colonial forces, giving them inspiration for the fight ahead with more trouble brewing as early battles didn’t bring any conclusive victories on either side.
The colonists cemented their position on July 4th, 1776, when they voted to adopt the declaration of independence.
This momentous document was the first time a nation’s people formally asserted their right to choose their own government.
It was drafted by a five-man committee, but the primary author was Thomas Jefferson, his famous words in the preamble read. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that, among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights. Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Herein lies the essence of the lasting impact of the American revolution. These words, influenced by enlightenment ideas, were a far cry from the European model of absolute monarchy. Though, of course, we know that this statement in fact referred to a small fraction of the population of the colonies. Women, men without property and slaves were all not considered to share these inalienable rights. Nevertheless, this was the revolutionary beginning of what would be a long, imperfect process toward the democratic republic.
We know today, as the colonists were declaring independence, the British were sending a huge fleet with 34 000 soldiers across the Atlantic to crush the rebellion.
After this point, the revolutionary war settled into a pattern of winds losses and stalemates for the next several years. Military history enthusiasts can enjoy the tales of Washington, retreating across the delaware river, before launching a surprise attack on christmas night in the early stages of the war. What can reflect on the turning point through 1777-78 at saratoga? The american victory at saratoga was crucial as it paved the way for france, sensing british weakness to enter the war on the colonists side. What had been a civil war now became an international conflict with the help of the training provided by a professional army, notably from the french aristocrat marquis de lafayette. Washington’S forces rallied in the north in the south. The colonists suffered many setbacks with the famous betrayal of benedict Arnold’s defection to the British, being the most famous of several other mutinies in the continental army, the British occupied Georgia by early 1779 and captured Charleston south carolina in May 1780 under general Cornwallis.
However, a change of leadership in the American ranks led to Nathaniel Greene coming to the fore. His forces managed to push the British back to the Yorktown peninsula with Washington also converging on the British. They were trapped and forced to surrender, though contemporaries didn’t necessarily see it. That way, this surrender effectively marked the end of the revolutionary war, with no further decisive action taking place before the British signed the treaty of Paris in 1783. In signing the treaty of Paris, Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States, and the colonists were free to go about building their free and independent country. We know that the story of the United States from here is not quite the legendary march of progress towards freedom and liberty, the shortcomings of the founding fathers and the damages done by subsequent us.
Governments are well known, nevertheless, from a weak confederation of 13 colonies.
In the 18th century, in less than 200 years, the u’s had become the most powerful nation in the world. Some of the reasons for American success can be found in the rights enshrined in the declaration of independence and the u’s constitution. The American victory was a kind of miracle, not only in the logistical nature of the ragtag bunch of farmers, overcoming an imperial army, but also in the triumph of new ideas over entrenched monarchical systems.
A new kind of politics and new ways of thinking have been born in history’s greatest experiment.
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