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Psyop Expert: “Brainwashing Is Real And It’s Happening Now” - Chase Hughes - #1103
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May 28, 2026
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How Shame and Guilt Control Behaviour
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Emotional Debt: The Childhood App That Runs Your Adult Life
Every childhood coping strategy that earned you friends, safety, or love gets hardwired into behaviour by around age 12–13. By adulthood it's no longer a conscious choice — it's source code. The 34-year-old who still sucks up to bullies learned that app in middle school and never deleted it.
Guilt proportional to perceived likelihood of being caught
A person's felt level of guilt about a transgression tends to be proportional to how likely they perceive they are to be caught, not purely to the severity of the act.
