Orwell wrote that international socialism is powerless against the power of simple patriotism. It's a simple concept that radicalized leftists are helpless to understand. Before the secular Cult of Wokentology can erect American temples, patriotism must be crippled. This is why basic American pride has been under systematic agitprop attack for decades. Traveling the third world: Todd articulates how, rather than creating another liberal "global citizen", it instead ignited his steadily building, and unexpected, patriotism.   Also: How conservatives could easily win over Latinos Tribal politics and collectivist globalism are mutually exclusive Identity politics and the American Indians' demise How failing to unite against the clear and present threat both doomed Native Americans and led to Hitler Wokentology's narcissistic time bomb: a rare message genuine of anti-woke hope! Communing with the ghosts of my colonizing ancestors at Ft. Michilimackinac Fragile souls sent spiraling into a mental health crisis by "misgendering" pronouns and uncomfortable ideas demand that we be ashamed of, and apologize for, our very badass ancestors? Ha! No.  Like it? Subscribe then share it!  Subscribe on YouTube for video highlights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com

As with propaganda, Todd's thoughts on tribalism have evolved in the last 9-years. It's a trait, not a defect. Evolution burrowed tribalism deep into the human psyche for a reason and it's going nowhere. That makes it a potent force that needs to be more clearly understood.  Segment 1:  Sebastian Junger and his book Tribe Tribalism and social evolution The doe eyed folly of "anti-tribalism" splinter factions Unity Via Division, huh? Go home, you're drunk The Fantastical Cult of Utopian Diversity: do diverse super societies have a shelf life? Vichy Whites: Wokentology's moneyed bourgeois assuming they'll be judged as "one of the good ones"  Careful of those reprisals Segment 2 (30:00) Tribalism offers the protection of the herd: physical, ideological, even rhetorical The accidental consequences of actually being a lone independent thinking chimp Tribal politics, agitation and integration propaganda, and "revolution" Collectivism vs Individualism: The invasive species attacking the foundational and cohesive myth Revolutionary destabilization is the goal Extremist Roulette: the scapegoated majority choosing their own tribe's self-interest Mention this episode and receive half off any anti-depressant! Thanks, Dementia Joe!    Like it? Subscribe then share it!    Subscribe on YouTube for video highlights: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com

In this short episode, Todd discusses the near complete loss of trust in American institutions, particularly the media, and the result: informational anarchy. What filth is left free to slither into the trust vacuum?    Like it? Subscribe then share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A

Starting with a discussion about painfully reaching rock bottom and its role in addiction and recovery, Todd applies it to the dopamine drip of technology-driven tribal politics and how he and others wrongly assumed Donald was the tribal floor. (13:52) The Left's application of Newton's Third Law of Extremism: the Green Tea Party and how, with the media's deification of The Holy Counterfeiter, it mutated into an invasive Ideological Insurgency using scapegoats to aggressively attack American history, institutions, and core values. To colonize anywhere, you must first exterminate foundational myths and cohesive narratives, the established religion, in order to replace it with your own. There’s a reason Latin America is Catholic, after all.   Also: The Sopranos as social anthropology What if there is no floor and rock bottom instead hits like Chicxulub?  In the failing era of Unity Via Division, selling unity knockoffs is a good dollar Can we just dispense with the infanitile "Let's Come Together" stuff?  No? Show your work! The "need to believe" is the death of reason   Like it? Subscribe then share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A

In the continuation of the last episode, Todd re-explores his oft-ignored Path to Empathy, the DIKW pyramid, and data Overload before exploring religion's real purpose and offering our pompous atheist friends the back of his rhetorical hand. From that joyful and uplifting summit, he moves on to question how woke parents can sacrifice their own children to a foreign ideological god.    Also: Introducing The Desert of the Why! We know what legislative riders are. What about "truth" riders?  The one thing in news, information, and tech that must remain unspoken. Why climate change hysterics are misguided and a waste of time. How the stupid cliques we form as kids flare up like herpes for the rest of our lives. Todd's new Gatekeeper disconnect. Chasing Che.    Like it? Share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A

After a brief introduction to metacognition, Todd delves back into how people are born as storytellers, not rational truth seekers, and how the storytelling ape probably evolved out of a need for simple explanation and meaning. Also, why are experts in detecting the "enemy's" bullish*t but so bad at sniffing out our own team's? After reflecting on the Facebook Wars, have we become organic pieces of agitation propaganda ourselves? Worse, can innate tribalism be exploited by agitprop-fueled hatred? Last question: gee, ya think?    Like it? Share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A

Mr. Sunshine delivers another cheerful monologue on our deep and persistent strain of authoritarian thought! Book those children's parties now! Subtopics:  America's puritanical tradition began on the Mayflower. Why totalitarian cultural eugenics might do more harm than "good." Agitprop and authoritarianism are conjoined twins. Can a true Democracy even defend itself? The generational tyranny of tradition; each new generation has the right to rule itself free from the yoke of their dead ancestors. Is authoritarianism, like deceit and self-deception, an inherent trait rather than a character flaw? Is it democracy's self-destruct button? A brief introduction to Harold Lasswell. And finally, if you suddenly find you lack the freedom to NOT believe, you're living in a theocracy. Stand up. Push back.    Like it? Share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A Now on Discord.

Your feral host is suddenly prolific? In the first of at least two episodes, Todd talks about how the Facebook document dump confirmed what most people already knew yet will only play to the messenger's choir. Trust: it matters. Also, what will happen when AI begins churning out endless supplies of effective algorithm-targeted agitprop? (hint: nothing good) Then comes a surprising, albeit half-hearted, defense of The Gatekeepers seasoned with a not as surprising dash of I-told-you-so.    Part two drops in a day or two.   Like it? Share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A Now on Discord.

After another extended hiatus, Todd's back with another sparkling hour of uplifting inspiration!   (8:40) How does a person enthusiastically produce a podcast when the subject matter and outcome is completely devoid of basic hope?  (9:41) "Fix" the for-profit media complex? Good luck. "It's the people." Tiptoeing into how pre-programmed deceit and self-deception are major parts of the how and why. (30:45) Deceit and Self-Deception. The opening salvo.    Like it? Share it!  https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A Now on Discord.

Taken from two episodes released in 2019, I begin laying the 2023 foundation for a return to my unfinished series focussing on Jacques Ellul's book, Propaganda. This episode focused on how propaganda severs the individual from themselves, robs them of their intellectual autonomy, and "crystallizes" inseminated thoughts, opinions, and agendas, inside the propagandee host. It then uses slogans, symbols, stereotypes, agitprop, and the warm glow of tribal fellowship, to turn them into malleable proselytes and militants always awaiting their righteous marching orders. More of what’s covered: a preview of what’s to come and having the real Courage to be Disliked as opposed to surrendering to fear and social momentum to avoid the pain, and punishment, of leaving a group.     "ToddzillaX" on most social media. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747 https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A