Coercive Control Is the Technique

Coercive control is the technique. This is what happened to people we might know in our own lives who got into abusive relationships, who got involved with pickup artists. It’s a technique. It works time and time again. And now it is happening to our civilization.

Source: Coercive Control Techniques

The universality claim. Coercive Control is the same technique whether deployed by a pickup artist, an abusive spouse, or a nuclear-armed state. It works “time and time again” because the mechanism is identical at every scale. And now it is happening to our civilisation. The personal is the geopolitical.

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