Chase Hughes

And then repetition.

So if it's in a detainee environment, the massive focus is them being woken up in the middle of the night over and over by strobe lights and loud sounds, cold water, that kind of stuff.

Then the emotion, the entire time you're sitting there in your prison cell or whatever,

I've got every photo your family's ever posted on the internet playing on a slideshow using a projector on the wall.

So focus, emotion, then agitation.

Something is extremely disrupting to your ability to predict the future.

That's agitation.

And then repetition.

The cycle begins again.

And you can kind of do whatever you want.

That process creates a blank slate in people.

And that's like the baseline formula of how brainwashing works.

And that is exactly what social media is using.

Yes.

But I think a lot of people think, oh, there's some dark conference table, dudes smoking cigars.

Like, how can we really mess these people up?

I don't think it's that at all.

I think it's just an algorithm that's rewarding what's creating the most revenue.

So showing you an ad for shoes is way easier after you watch the little baby deer video or after I make you think that the water supply is being destabilized.

So I think it's just...