TER in Everyday Life

In everyday life this routine (Trigger, Experience, Reaction) can be used to model what is going on in our minds almost all the time. There are overlapping triggers, experiences, and our reactions in a vast ever flowing concatenation of interventions in our mindstream. Usually, we muddle through our lives without applying such a model. And we live successfully without needing to focus on our emotional hygiene. Now because Russian Disinfolklore, which integrates this routine into almost every instance we can detect of it, has disrupted our community life to such an amazing extent, it is worthwhile learning how to spot this routine (Trigger, Experience, Reaction) so that we can take back control of our minds from nefarious manipulators.

Source: Reflexive Control!

TER is not an exotic theory. It runs constantly in our minds: overlapping triggers, cascading experiences, reactions triggering new triggers in others. We muddle through successfully most of the time. But when Disinfolklore weaponises TER at industrial scale, muddling through is no longer enough. The first step is simply noticing the routine — Trigger, Experience, Reaction — as it happens.

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