Angus Fletcher

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Angus Fletcher · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

I know a lot about SIOPs.

So SIOPs is Psychological Operations.

And SIOPs is a branch of U.S.

Army Special Operations that evolved during the Cold War.

And the idea at the time was that the way to win the war is to tell the enemy the story that they can't win.

And so we've got to create this story and we've got to create fear and despair in the enemy.

And this is something that PSYOPs took essentially from autocratic totalitarian regimes, because what a totalitarian regime is always doing is it's always trying to tell you you can't do anything, you'll die.

And by doing that, it's taking away your ability to make your own story and therefore to innovate, change society.

So PSYOPs started out with this fairly negative mission.

And when I started to engage with them, what I started to realize is that even though that had been the predominant

emphasis of psyops.

And so if you go to almost any kind of psyops operation, if you look at almost any of the stuff that they've developed, it's very fear-based.

It's very ISIS, you can't win.

What I started to realize is actually what's much more powerful for a democratic society to tell is the true story of democracy.

rather than telling the other guy why they're bad and they can't win the war because we've got these missiles, why don't you tell them some of the most extraordinary things that have happened in democracy?

And why don't you let them experience?

And then if they question those stories, have them come and look and realize, no, actually that did happen.

There was a Rosa Parks.

And what we started to find is that those stories, even though they seemed initially to be more fragile, were far more powerful because what they did is they unlocked possibility as opposed to fear.

And the idea behind the fear was to control the enemy.

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