Scott Mann

The enemy is not the mask or no mask person in front of you, right?

The enemy actually is a very unique, unprecedented, novel set of social conditions that we've never seen before in this country.

And it's a set of social conditions that have actually caused us to evolve to a place where we're doing what you just said, where there's no human connection at all.

It's straight up division.

It's fear-based.

Most people are operating in what psychiatrist Ivan Tyrrell calls a trance state.

When we are in a persistent state of fear or anger, we go into a trance, right?

And it happens all the time.

It's just a state of hyper-focus where I'm angry or I'm afraid and the body takes over.

and the body is focused on survival, right?

And if you look at people all the time, they're in this trance-like state where they're either focused on surviving, they're afraid, or they're angry.

And they've been conditioned through these damn phones, through the 24-7 news cycle, divisionist politicians, and it's over and over and over.

We're inundated with this.

And over a period of time, the amygdala, the primitive brain, it doesn't know the difference between a saber-toothed tiger and a contentious election.

Right, so our bodies haven't changed in a quarter million years.

So we have this primal response of trance.

And so most people are walking around in a trance state, man.

And when that happens and you're afraid, what you do is you revert back to the most primal form of trust, which is your in-group, the people that look like you, think like you, believe like you.

And those people over there, they're dangerous, existential threat.

and we start treating each other, as Junger says, with contempt that would normally be reserved for one's enemies, right?