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That Nissan example feels personal😂

Good

Anger is addictive. Gives us an illusion of power. And like any drug over time, the anger level has to keep rising. The fire demands fuel. trump feeds it with every word and deed.

So glad I grew up in the 70s. If you had something to say to someone, you said it to their face instead of these incel losers hiding in mom’s basement attacking everyone they perceive who wronged them. Always blame and deflect and never take personal responsibility. It’s both pathetic and sad.

You should start an IE targeting moderates of all ages and run a smart media campaign (to low and high info voters) to win key races in 2026 to pull the country back from insanity. In between Chelsea matches, of course.

That I did not realise. I imagine that it is also much easier to design an algorithm to encourage rage than it is to encourage sex. Another also, sex comes with taboos; rage is universal and can be encouraged without restriction.

Thank you

Definitely explains the rise of the rage-industrial complex.

I see it. Rage has become the norm and an automatic trigger for some posts on social media. We are in an atmosphere of “them against us” with a focus on character attacks & demonization. Also, there’s a mark increase in narratives without substance to present fallacious inferences of wrong or harm.

Really good until you talked about “a little bit of money for college”? Are you rage-baiting here?

Yes!!! Educate! ESP young men and women.

Thanks Scott. Please add a Bluesky post icon ( next to the Facebook, X icons) to your newsletter/ blog.

This is why we need to encourage people to get off meta, twitter and YT and come to Substack and blue sky. We have to bring people to the platforms that won’t regulate their feed

Let’s appeal to emotions. Particularly anger. When you are dealing from that point logic is out the window in your thought processes are irrational. But it sure does make one feel powerful. Harness that and send it to Washington DC January 6…… In case you wondered how we got here .

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Anger is validating emotion when you are angry, you feel 100% justified in whatever you are doing. Perpetually make a population angry, and you can convince them of anything.

Interesting

This is such a great snapshot of where we are, why we’re there, and why it feels like a one way street that ends in a cul de sac.

It's wild we're headed towards political violence and civil war in america, and the people causing it are not doing it based on ideologies they believe in, instead its just another boardroom strategy to make money off advertising. How calloused/dead-inside/small-minded/short-sighted can people be

I’d like to better understand where marketing teams learned that “rage sells more than sex”. Is there data on this?

I’m so sorry. There are millions of us affected by this - I’ve been advocating for a decade. No one cares. My dad died in hospice a year and a half ago and was denied pain meds on the day he died.

We are becoming Russia, not North Korea.

seems to explain the rise of fox news

You nailed it. On top of that, we are not innately wired for the slo-pa. My kids hated me making them invest half of their money. 10 years later they are believers in investing. I am not sure I would have been as successful raising them through these new algorithms.

Was this the point of the patently ridiculous Jaguar re-brand?

Yes! I was in marketing for a long while and started picking up on this too around 2015ish. I’m certainly not as well versed or experienced as you are, but over time it became so blatant.

Braziers

your remarks are spot on

Seriously, this guy has been part of the problem

In all seriousness though. You are correct.

I propose a "buying strike" to protest the GOP's tariffs. I will not buy ANYTHING - Other than food - until these tariffs are removed. Nothing ---------- see if US businesses have any leverage.

THESE MEN HAD A TEMPER...how did that work out?

Keep it up Scott. We need lot's more rage!

How do I pin 📌 your feed?

Calm down. Behave yourself.

This is dead on. Facebook didn’t have an angry reaction option until 2016.

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I’ve long said that marketing is actively making the world a worse place. The world will not be saved by an MBA.

I love slow-dopa, first I'm hearing it. My mother was ahead of her time and described it as "productive boredom." The mind is at its best creatively when boredom occurs. That's when hobbies and outlets are sought, and this is diminished or eradicated when you can fill all silence with dopa-bag.

Use the algorithm. Don't let the algorithm use you. Use the tool. Don't become anyone's tool. What else? I feel like we could keep this fortunately / unfortunately game going all day. It's good. I like it.

Who’s going to educate young women since they aren’t doing anything wrong and it’s all patriarchy’s fault?

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