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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

 

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

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Nation unable to name "Broken Window Fallacy" or cite egomania from film "The Fifth Element" when witnessing.... writing on social media that “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH.” (www.huffpost.com)
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writing on social media that “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golfing-tariffs-stock-market-plummeting_n_67f0a7c4e4b0f761e074019b

As Stock Market Plunges Over Tariffs, Trump Takes In The Greens At His Golf Course

"THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH," Trump wrote from Mar-a-Lago as Wall Street continues to panic over his tariffs.

Fatima Hussein, Chris Megerian and Stephen Groves

April 5, 2025, 12:04 AM EDT

 

This same faith in "broken window fallacy" is depicted in the The Fifth Element 1997 film, leader character in total egomania, businessman Zorg: "By creating a little destruction, I'm actually encouraging life"....

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