Sydney Powell is a sad example of the cost of emotional thinking & going off the deep end

She was a very, very good attorney who did some really amazing work in the Flynn litigation.

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and then she thought she found the Kraken after the 2020 election.

Now look at her. She's disgraced, possibly disbarred, being sued for billions, and faces criminal charges. Now clearly some of these are puffery, but look at the cost compared to what she actually had to offer, which was nothing other than stupidity masquerading as insanity.

There is a point where emotional thinking devolves into irrationality and that irrationality can devolve into utter insanity. You surround yourself with enough people facing that extreme emotional thinking and losing rationality and the repetition makes it seem rational. Sydney Powell clearly got caught up in this. The question you should be asking is if you are doing the same.

There is a very impactful and simple passage in an article I read recently about how cults brainwash:

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The brain learns via repetition.

Over and over again.



The more the information is repeated, the more it is deemed important by the brain.

The more the brain deems it important, the more the brain hyper-focuses on it.

Once it hyper-focuses on it, the brain identifies with the information.

Once we identify with something, the brain consumes information to justify the logic of what it idenitifies with.

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Brainwashing does not happen at once.

It happens in increments.

It is beyond your conscious awareness.

But one day, you wake up and find yourself thinking in a certain way.

So be very wary of repetition.

That’s how cults brainwash.

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Think about who you associate with and who you listen to and whether or not you're creating an echo chamber to reinforce beliefs you adopted out of pure emotional-irrationality. This stuff doesn't happen in a day or a week. It takes over your brain like an infection and before you realize it, you're Sydney Powell or feeling the effects of a cup of Flavor Aid (the Jim Jones cult did NOT drink Kool Aid, contrary to the popular idiom).