Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

Chapter 3: The Engaged Follower

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

Show Notes

What does it take to turn a normal person into a killer? What’s behind a recent string of assassinations and assassination attempts? In this chapter, we do a deep dive into the psychology of “engaged followership” and a dark experiment that proves just how easy it is to get a seemingly normal person to kill.

Chapters:

(02:31) - Infiltrating a Mind Control Cult

(10:30) - How Mind Control Cults Work

(13:15) - Mind Control Techniques in PSYOPs

(16:05) - Screens Influence Behavior

(23:51) - Creating a Manchurian Candidates?

(25:55) - The Milgram Experiment

(33:15) - The Crimes of Nazis

(38:43) - Chase Hughes on the 4 Core Aspects of a PSYOP

(46:12) - Sparking Political Violence

(50:15) - The Lesson of the Milgram Experiment

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