Provocation Logic: “Look What You Made Me Do”

The primary mechanism of coercive control is the Provocation Logic Cycle — what the author calls “Wife-Beater Logic.”

Russia’s Provocation Logic Cycle is a key Disinfolklore weapon… Let’s set it out in its simplest form: A accuses B of provoking A.

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One of the most important logics that most of us come across in this world is what I call the Provocation Logic. Provocation Cycle Logic, which is: You Made Me Do This. Basically, we can also call it wife-beater logic. So you provoked me. You forced me to invade your country.

Source: Wife-Beater Logic Podcast

The provocation logic is not simply rhetoric — it is a taught mental routine that embeds itself as a logic module in the minds of consumers:

These mental routines are actually taught. So we’re not just sitting listening to a story that inculcates this mental routine… When this is repeated a lot, then we not only hear the story, but we then take into our mind this logic as a unit, as a module.

Source: Wife-Beater Logic Podcast

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