TaggartHoly crap this story knocked me over. It is everything I'm feeling about the machines right now.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
luna the doggie 
@mttaggart learning some chilling historical facts
The unraveling doesn't happen all at once. It is a slow rot, a decomposition of confidence that the Germans call Zersetzung. Psychological decomposition. It was the method the Stasi used to break dissidents not with torture, but with gaslighting, with subtle alterations of reality until the subject lost faith in their own mind.and from wikipediaZersetzung […] is a psychological warfare technique first used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. […] The Stasi used operational psychology and its extensive network of between 170,000 and over 500,000 informal collaborators (inoffizielle Mitarbeiter) to launch personalized psychological attacks against targets to damage their mental health and lower chances of a "hostile action" against the state. Among the collaborators were youths as young as 14 years of age.
@mttaggart you ever just wonder if this happens in an automated fashion nowadays