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02/01/2026

Visiting San Juan. PR

02/01/2026

01/21/2026

Dissecting Idiocy
or: how to make the human brain sad, anxious, and chronically dissatisfied in 30 seconds of scrolling
Giulio Mike Bianco
The Chicago Hypnotist
Member of ASCH – American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Social media do not create depression.
That would almost be an excuse.
They train it. With method, consistency, and an enthusiasm that not even a Prussian military academy could match.
The protocol is simple.
Take a human brain, already delicate by design, evolved to compare itself with forty people in a village, not with four billion filtered avatars. Then bombard it daily with unreal lives, unreal bodies, unreal success, unreal happiness. Add a pinch of urgency, a splash of fear of falling behind, and a thick glaze of nonstop social comparison. Stir well.
Result: anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and a persistent feeling of being defective straight out of the factory.
🎪 Welcome to the circus.
The Sadness Factory
From a neuroscientific perspective, the mechanism is far less mysterious than motivational podcasts would like us to believe.
The brain runs on dopamine, not on likes.
The like is merely the Trojan horse.
Every notification promises a reward, but the reward is intermittent, unpredictable, arbitrary. Exactly the kind of stimulation that disrupts the mesolimbic dopamine system, the same circuitry involved in behavioral addictions.
Non-technical translation: the brain becomes a hamster with a smartphone.
When dopamine rises and falls intermittently, mood does not stabilize. It oscillates. And when it oscillates too often, the brain begins to interpret the world as unstable, threatening, and deeply unsatisfying.
That is where anxiety comes from.
That is where depression comes from.
That is where that delightful clinical sensation of “I don’t know why, but I feel awful” originates.
Longitudinal studies show a clear correlation between heavy social media use and increased depressive symptoms, particularly in adolescents and young adults (Twenge et al., 2018; Kross et al., 2013). Not because they are “weak,” but because their brains are still under construction.
It is like giving Red Bull to a nervous system that is still being wired.
Comparison: the Art of Telling Yourself “You Suck” Two Hundred Times a Day
Social comparison is an ancient instinct. It once helped us understand our place in the group.
Today it helps us understand that we are always below.
The key point, which social media elegantly omit, is this:
we cannot equal anyone.
We cannot, and we should not. Every comparison is, by definition, distorted. When we compare ourselves to an edited, filtered, curated version of someone else’s life, the message received by the unconscious brain is brutal:
“You are not enough. Improve. Buy. Become someone else.”
And if you fail? No problem. You can always mock, devalue, or attack. The mechanism is identical. Either you feel inferior or superior. In both cases, self-esteem goes bankrupt.
From a neuropsychological standpoint, comparison activates the amygdala and social threat circuits. The brain does not distinguish between a lion and the idea of being inadequate in front of the tribe.
It responds the same way: alertness, tension, hypervigilance.
Then we wonder why panic attacks show up.
The Industry of “Never Enough”
Social media do not sell products.
They sell insufficiency.
A better body.
A better career.
A better house.
A better relationship.
A better mind.
A better pillow.
A mindfulness practice better than your mindfulness practice.
The implicit message is always the same:
who you are, as you are, is not enough.
The brain, poor thing, takes notes. And once it internalizes that “more” equals “better,” the satisfaction threshold keeps moving further away. This is the principle of hedonic adaptation, well documented in affective neuroscience (Kahneman; Diener).
In plain language: the more you get, the less you feel.
Here lies the paradox: never in history have we had so much, and never have we felt so little.
Anxiety, Panic, and the Illusion of Control
Scrolling gives the illusion of control. In reality, it increases unpredictability. Catastrophic news, global tragedies, outrage on a continuous loop.
The sympathetic nervous system stays switched on like a Christmas tree in August. Cortisol rises, breathing shortens, muscles tense.
Then suddenly: panic.
Panic is not madness.
It is an exhausted organism saying: “Enough.”
A Non-Motivational Conclusion
The problem is not technology.
The problem is the unconscious, prolonged, compulsive, and culturally rewarded use of tools designed to capture attention, not to protect mental health.
The human brain is not defective.
It is simply ancient.
And we are treating it as if it were an algorithm.
🎪 The circus continues.
But every once in a while, turning off the screen and returning to the body is not escapism.
It is mental hygiene.
Essential References (for those who read before sharing):
Twenge, J. M., et al. (2018). Increases in depressive symptoms, su***de-related outcomes, and su***de rates among U.S. adolescents after 2010.
Kross, E., et al. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being.
Volkow, N. D., et al. (2017). Dopamine, reward, and addiction.
Sapolsky, R. (2004). Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.

01/21/2026

"When someone loses your money, hides the truth, and then tells you that your reaction is the problem, that isn't friendship or advice. It's gaslighting."

"Gaslighting always ends the same way:
with you reclaiming your clarity and them calling it cruelty."

01/21/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great Digital Circus, where the lions are algorithms, the clowns are influencers, and the audience insists on throwing peanuts at its own head while shouting encore.
Some lawyers, bless their increasingly caffeinated souls, are now fighting on behalf of social media users who developed eating disorders, fell into scams, flirted with self-harm, or wandered too close to suicidal ideation. The legal briefs are serious. The evidence is serious. The damage is serious.
The behavior, unfortunately, is pure slapstick.
Social platforms do not merely reflect humanity; they distill it, boil it down, add artificial coloring, and sell it back as a superhero serum. Scroll long enough and you too can be omnipotent, misunderstood, persecuted, chosen. You are not bored or confused, you are awakening. You are not misinformed, you are brave. You are not impulsive, you are authentic. 🎪
Behind the velvet curtain, the ringmasters at Meta Platforms, TikTok, and their cousins are not asking whether content is true, helpful, or sane. They are asking a single, elegant question:
Does it keep the monkey tapping the glass?
The feed is not evil; that would require intent.
It is worse. It is indifferent.
It learns what excites you, scares you, flatters you, enrages you, then loops it like a circus organ grinder with one tune and a very tired monkey.
We, meanwhile, applaud.
We applaud when a stranger with a ring light and a microphone tells us we are secretly gifted, secretly oppressed, secretly destined for greatness. We applaud when marketing masquerades as prophecy. We applaud when nonsense wears a cape. 🦸‍♂️
And when it all collapses, when anxiety spikes, bodies shrink, bank accounts vanish, and despair quietly pulls up a chair, we ask:
How could this have happened?
As if the tent had not been labeled CIRCUS in blinking lights.
This is not a tragedy in the classical sense. It is a farce with a subscription model. Humanity slipping on its own banana peel, filming it in slow motion, adding a motivational quote, and selling the course.
So yes, lawyers are suing. Courts are listening. Experts are testifying.
All necessary. All overdue.
But the bigger trial is existential.
Are we citizens, or are we the audience?
Are we thinking beings, or well-trained seals clapping on cue?
Because until we stop mistaking marketing magic for wisdom, and ego-boosting garbage for meaning, the circus will continue.
Same clowns.
Same tricks.
New filters.

01/21/2026

The Gospel of Ignorance
A Short Tale on Dystopian Manipulation and the Industrial Production of Human Stupidity
by The Chicago Hypnotist.

A peculiar tale circulates daily through social media feeds, polished, motivational, heroic in tone, and proudly hostile to education. The tale announces that school enslaves, that systems exist solely to crush freedom, that intelligence equals money, and that liberation hides inside assets, hustle, and a well-priced online course.
The tone resembles a revelation.
The structure resembles a spell.
The effect resembles mass hypnotic belief.
A single paradox opens the scene.
Without education, without learning to read, write, count, measure, reason, test, and doubt, the reader would lack the capacity to read the very message declaring education useless. Literacy becomes the invisible ladder kicked away after the climb.
Without mathematics there is no internet.
Without physics there is no electricity.
Without chemistry there are no servers, batteries, screens, or data centers humming quietly while freedom quotes scroll across glass.
Without philosophy there exists no definition of freedom, no concept of autonomy, no language capable of rebellion.
Strip those elements away and humanity returns to the Stone Age, chasing animals with sticks, debating rock ownership, rejecting fire as suspicious innovation, and complaining about systems invented minutes earlier.
Money disappears.
Contracts vanish.
Assets revert to goats, frequently stolen by neighbors with superior tools.
Yet the modern prophet types comfortably on a device built by centuries of disciplined study, declaring war on education with every keystroke.
This phenomenon deserves a proper name.
Dystopian manipulation.
The Architecture of the Spell
This manipulation thrives on reduction.
Complex reality becomes a fairy tale.
History becomes a slogan.
Education becomes an enemy.
Ignorance becomes a badge of courage.
A foggy villain called “the system” enters the stage. The villain lacks dates, laws, policies, institutions, or economic mechanisms. Vagueness grants invincibility. Disagreement transforms critics into collaborators. Analysis dissolves into mythology.
This structure mirrors classic indoctrination. Define an enemy. Keep it abstract. Offer identity in exchange for obedience.
The reader receives a gift: superiority.
“You see what others miss.”
“You woke up.”
“You escaped.”
Ego accepts eagerly. Critical thinking exits quietly.
Intelligence Reduced to a Wallet
In this tale, intelligence shrinks to financial behavior. Wisdom converts into assets. Freedom compresses into income streams.
Health disappears.
Ethics evaporate.
Law fades.
Social structure collapses into background noise.
Human life becomes a spreadsheet with motivational background music.
Failure remains invisible. Survivor bias does the storytelling. The winners speak. The silent majority carries debt, anxiety, and shame with admirable discretion.
The prophets earn handsomely, often through selling the prophecy itself, quoting figures like Robert Kiyosaki as philosophical authorities while bypassing contradictions, bankruptcies, and the small detail that book sales outperform most advertised investments.
Marketing dresses as enlightenment.
Consumption dresses as rebellion.
Why Education Becomes the Target
Education teaches people to recognize fallacies, probability, bias, complexity, delayed consequences, and uncomfortable questions. Those skills ruin simple stories.
An educated mind resists slogans.
An educated mind asks for sources.
An educated mind understands tradeoffs.
Ignorance feels faster.
Ignorance feels heroic.
Ignorance feels like freedom.
Dystopian manipulation thrives where education feels suspicious and shortcuts feel virtuous.
Dulcis in Fundo: How to Supercharge Human Stupidity
A manual for accelerating human stupidity writes itself.
Convince people that education represents oppression while enjoying every technological fruit education produced.
Flatten complexity into slogans short enough for thumbnails.
Replace knowledge with emotion.
Replace ethics with hustle.
Replace history with identity.
Promise freedom without responsibility.
Promise wealth without competence.
Promise wisdom without study.
End the process with a course.
The result tastes sweet.
Dulcis in fundo.
The manipulated feel awakened, exceptional, and free, while surrendering the very tools required to detect manipulation.
True freedom emerges from understanding systems deeply enough to navigate, reform, and resist them intelligently. That skill develops slowly, painfully, and without applause.
Stupidity spreads faster.
Stupidity feels better.
Stupidity sells beautifully.
The tale continues.

The Chicago Hypnotist
Giulio Mike Bianco
Member of ASCH

01/21/2026

Why should Greenlanders downgrade their lives to the US level? Greenland has:
-Universal Healthcare
-Free Education
-Student Grants
-Unemployment Benefits
-Social Assistance
-Child Benefits / Family Allowance
Maternity Leave
-Public Pension
-Housing Subsidies
Paid vacation 5-6 weeks annually

Home rule and self-government.
The Self-Gov. Act explicitly recognizes that the people of Greenland are a people with the right to self-determination under international law.
is not “a Danish property”.

01/14/2026

in Italia: la medicina che ferisce, il silenzio che protegge.

Indagine su una pratica tossica, tollerata dallo Stato e venduta come cura
In qualunque altro ambito scientifico sarebbe uno scandalo.

In medicina, in Italia, è diventata una consuetudine sommersa.
Un gas classificato come tossico per l’apparato respiratorio, privo di dimostrazioni cliniche solide, viene somministrato a pazienti fragili da professionisti regolarmente abilitati. Non in laboratori clandestini, ma in ambulatori, poliambulatori, centri “medicalizzati”.
Con fattura. Con consenso informato. Con il camice.
Si chiama ozonoterapia.
Il problema non è più stabilire se funzioni. Il problema è capire perché sia ancora tollerata.
Un fatto biologico, non un’opinione
L’ozono non è una molecola “controversa”. È un agente ossidante violento.

Reagisce distruggendo membrane cellulari, proteine e lipidi. Questo è il suo meccanismo. Non ce n’è un altro.
Non “stimola”, non “rinforza”, non “ossigena”.
Danneggia!!!

Per questo:
la Food and Drug Administration afferma che l’ozono è un gas tossico, privo di utilità medica dimostrata;
l’Environmental Protection Agency lo classifica come pericoloso anche a basse concentrazioni;
l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità lo include tra gli inquinanti con effetti respiratori documentati.
Esiste un punto che raramente viene spiegato ai pazienti, forse perché demolirebbe l’intera narrazione:
per essere antimicrobico, l’ozono deve essere presente a concentrazioni incompatibili con la vita umana.
Se è “efficace”, è dannoso.
Se è “sicuro”, è inutile.
L’Italia e la zona grigia che fa comodo
In Italia l’ozono non è un farmaco.
Non è approvato.
Non è raccomandato da linee guida evidence-based.
L’Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco non lo riconosce come trattamento standard.
L’Istituto Superiore di Sanità non lo include tra le terapie validate.
Eppure viene praticato.
Come? Attraverso un artificio lessicale: “terapia complementare”.
Una definizione che, in assenza di controlli stringenti, diventa una zona franca clinica, dove tutto è permesso purché non si pronunci la parola “cura” troppo apertamente.
Chi paga il prezzo reale
I destinatari non sono soggetti informati e sani.
Sono:
pazienti oncologici spaventati,
persone con dolore cronico,
anziani,
soggetti depressi o ansiosi,
individui che hanno già fallito terapie convenzionali.
A loro viene raccontato che l’ozono è:
“naturale”,
“privo di effetti collaterali”,
“integrativo”,
“scientificamente studiato”.
Queste affermazioni, nella migliore delle ipotesi, sono false.
Nella peggiore, dolose.
Il consenso informato come alibi
Molti medici si difendono dietro un foglio firmato.
Ma il consenso informato presuppone informazione corretta, non narrativa rassicurante.
Omettere che:
l’ozono è un tossico noto,
non esistono prove cliniche robuste di beneficio,
esistono rischi documentati,
rende quel consenso eticamente nullo, anche se legalmente timbrato.
“Lo fanno i medici”: la bugia più pericolosa
In Italia persiste un’illusione culturale devastante:
se lo propone un medico, allora è scienza.
La storia della medicina è un elenco di pratiche difese da medici e poi abbandonate perché dannose. Il camice non è un vaccino contro l’errore, né contro l’avidità.
La medicina non è democratica.
Non decide a maggioranza.
Decide con i dati.
Terapie sicure ignorate perché non spettacolari
Mentre si tollerano gas tossici, si marginalizzano interventi a basso rischio biologico e con plausibilità neurofisiologica, come:
ipnosi clinica basata su evidenze,
terapie di regolazione del sistema nervoso,
terapia assistita con animali in contesti certificati.
Non promettono miracoli.
Non producono danni irreversibili.
Non generano fatturati rapidi.
Forse è anche per questo che ricevono meno attenzione.
La domanda che nessuno pone
Se una pratica:
non è approvata,
non è supportata da evidenze robuste,
utilizza un agente tossico,
viene proposta a pazienti vulnerabili,
perché non viene fermata?
La risposta non è scientifica.
È politica, economica e culturale.
Conclusione: quando la tolleranza diventa complicità
L’ozonoterapia in Italia non è una curiosità alternativa.
È un fallimento del sistema di vigilanza, un cortocircuito tra medicina e mercato.
Tollerarla significa accettare che:
la scienza sia opzionale,
il rischio venga normalizzato,
la paura del paziente diventi una risorsa economica.
Quando la medicina rinuncia al metodo, non diventa più “umana”.
Diventa arbitraria.
E questo, in uno Stato che si definisce civile, non è più accettabile.
Fonti principali
Food and Drug Administration, comunicazioni ufficiali sull’ozono
Environmental Protection Agency, effetti sanitari dell’ozono
Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità, Air Quality Guidelines
Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
NIH, letteratura su stress ossidativo

01/13/2026

Visiting Italy