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Field Guide to Mind Control

Causal Oversimplification

Assign a complex outcome to a single cause, usually a convenient one.

How it controls you

Simple stories beat true ones. One villain, one cause, one fix: the shape is satisfying, memorable, and almost always wrong. Complexity does not go viral, so it gets amputated.

Spotted in the wild

"the one reason everything went wrong"

"this single decision caused it all"

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More techniques:
Loaded Language · Name Calling · Appeal to Fear · Manufactured Urgency · Flag Waving · False Dilemma · Manufactured Consensus · Casting Doubt · Thought-Terminating Cliché · Whataboutism · Appeal to Authority · Repetition

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