That term has fascinated me from the moment I heard the term.
Same goes for Social Conditioning.
I used to think people were willfully ignorant to these concepts. As I got older, I come to think it’s more of a combination of naïveté and fear.
We’re hard wired to conserve our energy and effort. This has been, is, and will be exploited by those with power and influence against those without them to keep it that way.
Control.
It’s all about control. Influence. Manipulation.
To do what?
Benefit those in power.
That those with the most have such a scarcity mindset is sad.
The fact that their scarcity mindset causes so much undue suffering to the masses is something worse than sad.
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