Weaponized Division: Exploiting Beliefs for Power and Profits
Description
America, wake up! You're losing a war!
It's not between nations or armies, and it's not between Conservatives and Liberals. It's a war for our minds, our rights, our qualities of life, and our nation's wealth. It's between America's democracy and the divisive propaganda of economic fascism.
Social division is big business, so Big Business and the ultra-wealthy promote it, fund it, and profit from it immensely. This 'divide and conquer' strategy is so intrinsic to pilfering wealth that the ancient Greeks made it the ploy for how Jason stole the Golden Fleece.
Stem cells, climate change, Covid-19, Jan 6, immigration, gender issues, religion in schools. Americans care deeply about worldview beliefs, so they're used to divide us and exploit us year after year like a song on continuous repeat.
As America's polarization grows increasingly worse, consider this: What if a mental process that's ubiquitous to humans, occurs automatically, and without our awareness...
- has been weaponized to divide us and keep us divided to ensure we remain socially impotent?
- allows those who control us for profits or power to see nothing wrong with their actions or goals?
- is why nothing ever changes that truly threatens the agendas of Corporate America and the 1%?
- could doom mankind in an industrial age despite having helped it to survive the Stone Age?
This single aspect of human psychology put Donald Trump back in the Oval Office despite everything that should have kept him from it.
It's why over a million Americans died of Covid-19, why no steps were taken to avoid climate change despite its causes being known since 1856, why America's richest 1% owns fifteen times the total wealth of America's bottom 50%, and why our democracy teeters on a precipice.
This one aspect of human psychology shapes our lives, our world, and our futures, and like an insidious malware deep in our brains, we don't even know it's there, so we're powerless to resist it.
Psychologists call it "motivated reasoning."
Weaponized Division should appeal to readers...
* who sense that the psychological roots of America's polarization must be the keys to bridging it.
* who suspect that worldview differences make us ripe for manipulation.
* who wonder how intelligent people can rationalize realities to conform with biases and fixed beliefs.
* who fear that corporations and wealthy elites control our government, rendering our futures uncertain.
* who wish that America wasn't forever rife with social mistrust and discord.
Weaponized Division is a clarion call for America. We've allowed Big Business and the 1% to divide us intentionally and exploit our division for far too long. If we hope to defend our minds, save our democracy, and again be a united people, we need to see how we're divided, why we're divided, and who profits from our division.
