{"product_id":"9780593716588","title":"Manufacturing Delusion: How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You","description":"\u003cb\u003eA former CIA analyst draws on his experience combatting jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to show how citizens lose touch with reality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of history?s greatest empires have devolved into genocidal lunacy?often with shocking compliance from their own people. What methods can create this madness?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Delusion, \u003c\/i\u003eacclaimed conservative commentator and former CIA officer Buck Sexton offers answers. Drawing on his intelligence experience, expertise in crowd psychology, knowledge of propaganda, and research into some of history?s darkest totalitarian chapters, he equips you to identify mind control tactics used to form compliant citizens. He explores the eight tactics of mass delusion through examining:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Stalin used Pavlovian mind games to establish absolute control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Chinese thought reform transformed opposition into terrorized pawns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Jihadist preachers replace shared humanity with weaponized fear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing these examples and others, Sexton walks you through a history of controlling regimes and the methods they used to create passive citizens. More importantly, he shows you how some of the early stages of mass delusion have already occurred right here in the United States of America, on issues of public health, gender, and racial justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unnerving explanation of how Orwell?s \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e could become reality, \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Delusion\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to stand strong when everyone around them is going crazy.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42997454209085,"sku":"9780593716588","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593716588_p0.jpg?v=1771581358","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780593716588","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}