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A Culture of Hypnosis
There must be room in all of us for understanding. Coming from a fighter that might seem a strange thought to some people. Ours is the only business in which the fundamental idea is to knock the other guy unconscious, and if you follow that thought through to its logical conclusion, it is the only sport in which a man has license to hurt another man.
…It’s the way of life put into the ring surrounded by ropes…
— Floyd Patterson
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“Hypnosis is Trump’s secret weapon. He has used it from the start.” In an interview with the Mirror, Morgan said Trump’s rallies are similar to a hypnotist’s show. The crowds wait through hours of rhythmic music and sometimes hypnotic films in which Trump, in silhouette, is shown with military, warlike images, backed by jarring soundtracks full of crashes, bangs and whistles.
Cartoonist Doug Adams…recognized the method, “A lot of the things that the media were reporting as sort of random insults and bluster and just Trump being Trump looked to me like a lot of deep technique that I recognized from the fields of hypnosis and persuasion.”
— Jim Rigby
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A long road made of longing and self-discovery is required in order to re-open the heart and reveal the gold within it. Another old proverb states that…
