The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 19 Miil talks about the most cagey and dishonest of tactics, suppressed premises and the dangers to presuppositions.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 18 Miil talks about patterns of inference, the valid and invalid ways we make judgements.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 17 Miil talks about implications and conditions and the subtle difference between logical truth and truth in objective reality.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Episode 16 Miil talks about what makes a valid argument.

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. This episode Paul Miil explains "You can argue opinions, you can explain facts, but excuses are for losers."

The series is Defense Against the Dark Arts which explains how we are being manipulated. Ep 14 Miil covers "better", "epiphanies" and "close-enough encounters".

We all make assumptions based on what we think is right. We may not be right, even though everything looked like it was right. These wrong assumptions Miil calls Phantom Connections.

If ever there was a type of manipulation, priming is it.

The purpose of thinking is to make the known unknown and the unknown known.

For the slower kids in the back: We all are wrong about many things, and when we are wrong the things we think we know that are wrong are actually unknown things... to us, we just don't know it yet. If you slow down and think, you might achieve great wisdom in realizing that the known may be unknown. The bonus of thinking is that we learn things, so the unknown becomes known.

Make the known unknown and the unknown known.. It's not some esoteric ancient Chinese secret.. it's just common sense.

Also, it's so simple to not feed the monster, cut the strings and walk away.

Thought predators don't stop at mental techniques, they also use physical techniques. Miil goes over the physical techniques used by manipulators as well as thought-stopping (stopping wrong-think), inoculation (stopping outsiders from swaying the indoctrinated targets) and radicalization (contemporary university graduates.. ;)