Probably one of the best videos about subversion: https://youtu.be/GwDdJsdYM3g
Care to link that part?
I'd believe it though. IIRC, disinformation techniques are meant to seize up rational judgement processes, and it makes sense that one way to defeat that is an extra-rational commitment to something.
I recall a scene in the show The Americans, where the Russian agent was blackmailing a very religious woman into helping him. Going against all rational self-interest and at great personal cost, she told her superiors about what was going on allowing them to thwart the Russian's plan, because she believed that was the right thing to do. The Russian agent character grumbled that religious people are the hardest to manipulate because they don't act predictably (or something like that).
Eh. I'll take fiction over lifeless facts and data any day, about the only thing better is history.
He showed up in this NY Times video identified as a former KGB agent, so that claim stood up to whatever fact checking they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo&t=180s.
> I've seen this guy a lot and he talks awfully like someone who is saying what a certain group of people wanna hear.
That doesn't mean he's wrong.
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Both right and left wingers hate him because he undermines their collectivist/authoritarian sides
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/09/21/jordan-pe...
So even if he were not associated with the right, in my view there is littele reason to watch his videos. For anyone looking for meaning and a way of life I would recommend modern stoics or even just classical Marcus Aurelius, or for those wondern about what is right something like Rawls' lectures on the history of moral philosophy.
Speak for yourself. I don't hate him but I'm not a fan -- I think he's a gifted speaker in crafting what people want to hear but find his reasoning specious.
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