and hypnosis (hopenosis, too)...
(I cannot take credit for the Pelosi-Medusa, and have forgotten where I found it!)
You forgot bright, moving, sparkling or glowing objects.
It doesn’t take a Stanford phD to figure that out.
Ever
Massive scale killings are always required as well.
OK, all together now, “YES WE CAN!!!”
Yes, but such tactics only work for a limited period of time.
Sustaining it - that is the key.
Sun Tze said - in military actions, sounding the drums one time will rouse the troops to action, the second time they will reach their peak, and by the third time, their zeal will be flagging.
[cue “Rawhide” by Frankie Laine]
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass... Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil... Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance... We have it from Hitler... that the genius of a great leader consists in concentrating all hatred on a single foe. [pp 85-87]