The Hidden Cult-Like Techniques of Social Media | Your Undivided Attention

Would you ever consider social media to be a cult? The truth is we are all under some form of influence and in an era of likes, influencers and followers is there much of a difference? How can we become aware of undue influence and gain sovereignty over our minds? To what degree is influence used as a form of social control and what are the similarities between the digital space and cults?
This is an episode of Your Undivided Attention, a podcast from the Center for Humane Technology. Listen to more podcasts from the TED Audio Collective at / tedaudiocollective
Tristan Harris Co-Founder & President of the Center For Humane Technology and Dr. Steven Hassan, an expert on undue influence, brainwashing, and unethical hypnosis, break down classic cult tactics and how those techniques have evolved in the digital age.
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[@bytossen10]

A shame so few people have seen this.. But I guess Alphabet Inc, doesn't want us to know that we are being manipulated by them.

[@amonynous9041]

I didn't take the vaccine and I'm still alive. However the difference between me and those who are pro-vaccine is that I didn't pressure anyone to take the vaccine or not take the vaccine, while I on the other hand was pressured psychologically on all sides to conform. Still I didn't conform despite all the peer pressure. Do you see the difference? So in my mind you cannot equate those who did take vs those who didn't as two cults, because it takes extra steps to produce the vaccine and then take it in a leap of faith toward the ruling government vs just not taking it in a disbelief toward the ruling government, when the evidence of corruption is so painfully obvious in so many areas. In the end it was just a big experiment in conformity, vaccines might as well been just a placebo. It was fear driven economics, and it was very profitable because of how easily groups of people are manipulated.

[@ericconard7718]

Brilliant discussion!!! Thank you so much for facilitating it.

[@KwaNtu_Agencies]

I don’t even know whats true anymore , this makes so much sense now…

[@KwaNtu_Agencies]

And so not all cults are bad?

[@alaalfa8839]

This is the best comment by Andrea Laing not about the internet but about mediation practice. "Attention is the highest currency you have, therefore everybody wants your attention, your friends, television media etc. Including you. including your own ego, wants your own attention....constantly interrupting you from your passion. Therefore you have to bring it back with your meditation ad with your breath 100 times a day." :))))) And as Dr. Joe Dispenza says statistically people lose attention 6 times per minute.