Podcaster Argues Social Media Algorithms Use Cultural Trauma to Mind Control Users

What was said

"Public assassinations, create trauma, cultural trauma... The trauma response opens you up to conditioning. It's the same shit kidnappers use... They freak you the fuck out so that you kind of disassociate... And then in that place, they show you the Asics commercial."

Duncan Trussell articulates a theory that algorithms exploit traumatic events like assassinations to fragment attention, induce dissociative states, and insert propaganda or commercial messaging. He compares this to torture techniques used by kidnappers, claiming platforms like Instagram are microdosing cultural trauma to condition behavior and increase surveillance capitalism's effectiveness.