Mass Hypnosis

Using a story-telling distancing technique that, uncharacteristically, places himself with the audience, and opposed to the missile defence system operators who are smart, not ‘muscle guys.’

The effect is to embed a set of mental routines in the mind of his In Real Life and online audience: ‘Live in fear, suckers. We only have seventeen seconds.’ Also has the effect of, in the moment, lulling his audience. Hitler used the same technique: Mass Hypnosis.

Source: What Trump Doing.

Trump’s spectacle technique: place himself with the audience (us vs them), embed fear (“seventeen seconds”), and lull through repetition. The historical parallel is explicit: Hitler used the same technique. Mass hypnosis is not a metaphor — it is the mechanism by which spectacle plants mental routines that operate when the audience is no longer watching.

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