Trevor Noah

But you're hitting on another universal point that's really...

demanding, underlining, and with a red pencil, that the ideologies have truthful, important things in it.

And they quote famous people who say really important things.

So it's not just all BS.

And that's also, as a therapist, that's what I try to do in helping my clients deconstruct

How did they get hooked?

What were the pieces that hooked them?

And the technique, I'm jumping ahead and I'll circle back to your earlier question, but the technique that's most effective is I empower my clients to understand Chinese communist brainwashing, my model, etc.

And the technique is this simple.

I ask people to go back to that critical earlier moment when they were getting recruited or they were falling in love with someone who was a malignant narcissist that was going to ruin their lives.

If you knew then what you know now, what would you say and do differently?

And I have them reprocess because they didn't know what they didn't know.

But if I knew it was the Moonies, that this fat Korean billionaire was a pervert and involved with the Korean CIA and the Washington Times, etc., I would have said, you're not students.

Get the hell out of here.

I'm calling security.

But the point is it's a dissociative disorder.

I was using my hands before.

So the key is, once you're out, is deconstructing the programmed identity by going back to critical moments and rewiring using neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, saying, if I knew then what I know now, here's how I would have handled it or could have handled it or should have handled it.

Because then it empowers you going forward into the future to not get taken again with those techniques.

And the key is the locus of control has to be in you, not looking outside to some authority figure or ideology to tell you what reality is or what the beliefs are.