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They didn't radicalize you. They trained you. We've spent decades trying to understand ideological extremism through the lens of belief-as if zealots are people who believe too hard, think wrong, or got brainwashed by charismatic leaders. We've been looking in the wrong place. RETARDMAXXING reveals that modern radicalization isn't primarily psychological. It's instructional. The same behavioral training methods developed in the 1960s for teaching pigeons complex discriminations have been accidentally rediscovered by algorithmic content platforms optimizing for engagement. What emerged isn't a conspiracy. It's worse: an evolutionary process that manufactures devoted actors without requiring devotion. BOOK ONE: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRISON maps the internal architecture of ideological fusion. You'll learn: Why the brain can't simultaneously defend territory and process information How ""sacred values"" hijack neural threat-detection systems designed for physical survival The metacognitive blindspot that prevents extremists from recognizing their own errors Why the ""identity vacuum"" makes turnkey ideologies feel like salvation How fusion transforms beliefs from tools into limbs-objects you could set down into parts of yourself you'd die defending BOOK TWO: THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY exposes the training mechanisms operating at scale: Task Analysis: How moral reasoning gets broken into mindless behavioral chains anyone can execute without understanding Overlearning: Why drilling ideological responses until they're reflexive beats critical thinking every time Errorless Learning: How algorithmic bubbles create information environments where you're never wrong-and your error-detection machinery atrophies from disuse Purity Spirals: The competitive dynamics that purge nuance-seekers and select for maximum certainty Cultural Group Selection: Why ""dumb"" groups beat ""smart"" ones when coordination matters more than accuracy The walls are closing in. The bricks don't know they're bricks. The question isn't whether you've been trained. The question is: can you still see the program running?

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