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Gene L
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Liberal Democrat. Fan of CSNY & all combinations, Peter Gabriel, Yes, Allman Bros, NY Yankees, LV Raiders, GSW & the Louisville Cardinals. Equal rights for all.
Park Hills, Kentucky
Joined February 2011
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Shock Doctrine, the OODA Loop, and the Cognitive Paralysis of a Nation Thereās a reason everything feels like chaos right now. Itās not an accidentāitās a strategy. What Trump and his enablers are doing is straight out of the Shock Doctrine playbook: create relentless crises, overload peopleās capacity to process events, and then exploit the confusion to consolidate power. The goal? Keep the public in a reactive, disoriented stateāso exhausted that they stop resisting. In military and police strategy, we talk about the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). Itās how people process and respond to fast-moving situations. If you can disrupt an opponentās OODA Loopāby overwhelming them with uncertainty, false information, or sheer unpredictabilityāyou gain control. They hesitate, freeze, and become incapable of effective action. As a cognitive scientist, I see the exact same thing happening at a societal level. This kind of sustained chaos hijacks our mental bandwidth, creating a state similar to learned helplessnessāexcept instead of giving up after repeated failure, people stop resisting because they donāt even know where to begin. Every day brings a new scandal, a new outrage, a new existential crisis. The brainās natural response? Shut down. Hereās the key: once people stop believing their actions matter, the game is lost. Thatās the whole point. So what do we do? - Recognize the strategy. Naming the tactic strips it of its power. - Refuse to be reactionary. If we let them control our attention, they control the battlefield. - Prioritize, focus, and act with intent. We canāt fight everything at once, but we can choose our battles wisely. - Support real accountability. Donāt just follow the outrage cycleādemand consequences where they matter. This is not about politics. Itās about psychological warfare. And the moment we see it for what it is, we stop playing their game. Letās break the loop. #ShockDoctrine #CognitiveWarfare #OODA #ResistDisorientation
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