Newsletter Autoresponder – Message 6
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Subject: How Leaders Sway The Masses Through Covert Hypnosis

Have you ever been in a group setting where you just felt naturally compelled to go along with what everyone else wanted?

Let's say you were with a group of friends and everyone decided on a certain place to go out to. This may have been a place that you normally wouldn't have gone out to, but because everyone else in the group was in agreement, you actually wanted to as well.

This is an example of what's known as the 'crowd mentality'. Whenever we are in a group where we're accepted, we want to do everything we can to remain a part of that group, even if we're not consciously aware we feel this way.

Now let's look at how this same situation could be applied to a riot or protest. Many people in riots or protests are naturally law abiding citizens, however because they have a common interest with everyone else present, they may feel compelled to naturally go along with any riotous or violent behaviour that takes place, even if it wasn't something they intended to do.

Take this same concept and apply it to a national level, and you can see why normally innocent, gentle citizens, turned into raging killing machines throughout every age of history as dictators and corrupt leaders abused the vulnerability of the masses for their own twisted goals.

In a less subtle form, politicians still use the 'crowd mentality' to their advantage. The crowd mentality you see, is simply a form of mass covert hypnosis. It's a way of hypnotizing people into believing in a certain ideal, or cause, from a subconscious level. 

People don't realise that the reason they're believing in a cause is simply because “everybody else is”. We like to think we have come to our own judgements and conclusions, when in reality we're looking at what other people are saying, and doing. This of course becomes a cumulative effect, as the more people that support a politician, the more likely people are to follow their lead.

Next time you watch the news, pay careful attention to the speeches that politicans use. You may be quite surprised with the words they use  to sway mass amounts of people to follow their ideals.