Are you lonely? More people than ever are lonely these days - we've been scared to death by reports about Covid19 and made to lock ourselves up during lock-downs. And, have you noticed, it's taking longer than you might have expected to come out of your cocoon and feel comfortable socializing again. There's an even greater danger lurking than loneliness itself, as today's guest will explain. Stella Morabito is the author of The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide and Conquer. Ms. Morabito, who served as an analyst at the CIA, explains how the merchants of loneliness—power elites in Big Tech, Big Media, Big Government, academia, Hollywood, and the corporate world— exploit our terror of social isolation. Do you keep your opinions to yourself because you're afraid people will reject you? Do you sign on to a cause just because everyone around you acts like it's the right thing to do? This is an example of The Weaponization of Loneliness at work. Tyrants of all stripes want to tell you what to believe and how to live your life. They get away with it by using the most potent weapon at their disposal: your fear of ostracism. Ms. Morabito explains how dictators—from the French Revolution to the Communist Party of China to today's globalists—aim to atomize us in order to control us. We fall for it because our need to connect with others and our fear of social rejection are so hardwired that they trigger our conformity impulse. These dynamics can even cause us to comply with evil orders. But, there is hope... as you will hear.