9k:RD/ Them's Writin' Words (Q10,2,71)

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Them's Writin' Words [1]
Heroic Reviews (Scribbler Productions) (sense) -> Scribbler has had a couple of different podcast playlists but the contents of them can be very similar, so I would say that any of these videos that contains fic reviews can be coded with this Item, using a sense label. through this method, any number of things which are significant in aggregate but not significant individually can all be covered with Items even though they don't actually have their own Items.
Them's Writin' Words -> so... I feel like, most of the episodes of this aren't Motif Level or Book Level. the podcast in general, sure. all the episodes, no. but because the content of the episodes is fully at Motif Level, the episodes should still be coded somehow. and, crazy as it is, maybe three-letter sense labels are the best way. AAA = episode 1.
podcast letters:
A) Oh Babble Scribbler B) Heroic Reviews C) Them's Writin' Words

Celestia's way or the highway /
As soon as she comes into contact with fundamental ideological differences that clash with hers, she forcibly converts them. ... a forcible conversion to the Celestia mindset ... you have to do things this way, the pony way. ... What happens if anybody else ever disagrees with this particular mindset of "the Equestrian way of life is the only way of life"? Was that what happened with Nightmare Moon? Is that what's gonna happen with the griffons? ... Nobody's allowed to disagree or hold their own opinions. They're allowed to think they are, but they're not actually. ... (Scribbler) [3] ->
it's quite funny how when people read MLP fanfiction they actually start thinking about imperialism for one second. even if they would never question anything in real life. even if they wouldn't look at alien civilization fiction like Star Trek etc. and find it convincing. even if they wouldn't question the show's morality most of the time. somehow fan fiction has a unique ability to make people stop and go "wait, that thing that happened is actually messed up"
Morality is a luxury [4]
Most people want to be "in chains" / The majority of people want to be "in chains" as long as those chains unify all humans into the same global population; this is not to imply that people want to "don chains" for anything that unifies people into a population smaller than a world population (meta-Marxism onto Christianity)

cult recruitment steps [5] -> this definitely came from some specific place, but I don't know from where.
invitation to a non-threatening event (cult recruitment steps)
love bombing
dangling the prize
extracting an agreement / manufacturing consent (generic)
shutting down dissent with threats of withholding the prize
establishing guilt (cult recruitment steps) / establishment of guilt
control of identity, information, and environment
Nation-states are basically cults -> this list of steps is so bad and vague I feel like it applies to all nation-states and maybe some tribal societies (think "Warriors and ShadowClan starting out as an ordinary tribal society").