There is a secret hypnosis you and I experience every day: scrolling social media on your phone.
Scrolling is a stage for mass hypnosis.
It does not flash a spinning disk or swing a pocket watch.
It simply soaks up your time and attention.
Persuasion in its purest form is time plus attention.
Once it steals both it can nudge you to form opinions that the platform wants you to have.
Your perception blurs.
You see people differently.
This is how you grow distant from the real people in your life.