Anxiety Culture: Contents

Anxiety Culture: Contents


Control Systems:
The Guilt System – Your hidden, unresolved guilt makes you vulnerable. How to undo it.
The Distraction System – Society turns focused people into distracted automatons. Hedonistic focus to the rescue.
The Consumer-anxiety System – How our economy depends on consumer anxiety.
The Disapproval System – How advertisers and propagandists exploit our fear of disapproval.
The Inner Dictator – Think bad things and be unreasonably happy.
Controlled by Words – Certain words function as social control-mechanisms. You can easily identify them...
The Metaphysical System – Unsuspected metaphysical beliefs control us, until we become aware of them.
The Propaganda System – Semantic propaganda, and how to defend yourself against it.
Empire of Emotion – Emotion as a sold commodity, and as a social control system. Who is pushing your emotional buttons?
Anti-Perspectivism – How ruling authorities depend on "absolute truths" to control people. And how they misrepresent "relativism".
How to Stupidise People – Prevent yourself from being stupidised!