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The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer Paperback – October 11, 2022

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The Weaponization of Loneliness offers the first deep dive into how power elites weaponize the fear of loneliness to enforce social conformity and wage war on the private sphere of life.

Do you keep your opinions to yourself because you’re afraid people will reject you? Do you sign on to a cause just because everyone around you acts like it’s the right thing to do?

Welcome to The Weaponization of Loneliness. Tyrants of all stripes want to tell you what to believe and how to live your life. They get away with it by using the most potent weapon at their disposal: your fear of ostracism.

This book explains how dictators—from the French Revolution to the Communist Party of China to today’s globalists—aim to atomize us in order to control us. We fall for it because our need to connect with others and our fear of social rejection are so hardwired that they trigger our conformity impulse. These dynamics can even cause us to comply with evil orders.

We all need a better understanding of how the merchants of loneliness—power elites in Big Tech, Big Media, Big Government, academia, Hollywood, and the corporate world— exploit our terror of social isolation. Their divide-and-conquer tactics include identity politics, political correctness, and mob agitation. Their media monopoly spawns the propaganda essential to demonization campaigns, censorship, cancel culture, snitch culture, struggle sessions, the criminalization of comedy, and the subversion of society’s most fundamental institutions. It all adds up to a machinery of loneliness. Ironically, people tend to comply with this machinery to avoid loneliness, but such compliance only isolates us further.

The Weaponization of Loneliness offers a message of hope. We can resist this psychological warfare if we have strong bonds in our families, faith communities, and friendships. Let’s resolve to talk to one another openly and often, especially about the consequences of giving in to social pressures and media hype. Indeed, totalitarians always seek to destroy private life because it is the very fount of freedom.
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Stella Morabito cracks the code of one of today's most powerful political weapons: isolation. The Weaponization of Loneliness is an eye-opening and chilling look at how propagandists use the tool to enforce compliance and smear dissenters.
-- Sharyl Attkisson, Emmy Award winning investigative reporter

Stella Morabito is an original thinker. I don't say that about many people. In this important new book she explains how the left exploits the natural human fear of being isolated and alone to silence its opponents.
-- Dennis Prager, author of the Rational Bible series and founder of PragerU

Stella Morabito may have honed her craft as a former CIA analyst, but she has become one of America's most valuable experts on propaganda by casting a keenly observant eye inward. Whether from social media, the opioid epidemic, or political correctness, America is being torn apart by psychological warfare -- and only Morabito is skilled and brave enough to pull back the curtain exposing how the tyrants among us are exploiting the "machinery of loneliness" to isolate us, divide us, and force our compliance.
-- Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief, The Federalist

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bombardier Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 11, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1637582021
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1637582022
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
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Stella Morabito has published numerous articles at The Federalist about the social fallout of propaganda and mob psychology. She has been a senior contributor there since 2014, and has also written on those themes for other publications, including the Washington Examiner, American Greatness, Public Discourse, Townhall, and the Human Life Review. Stella served for several years as an intelligence analyst with a focus on propaganda and media analysis. She has a master's degree in Russian and Soviet history from the University of Southern California.

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  • Tim Blythe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Far more than you might assume
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024
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    This would be a great addition to anyone’s reading list. Regardless of where you stand on issues this book has the potential to enlighten and open doors to civil discourse and debate across lines on any topic—especially those topics that are used to divide us. Now more than ever—the attack on free speech and silencing of opinions, perspectives, and ideas, are being used to silence people and play directly into the hands of technocrats, global elites, and totalitarians who will not (never have) stop their brand of oppression through total control once they have buried free speech.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A very informative read.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2024
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    I recommend this book to everyone who stands against the current spirit of the age. The author provides examples how to fight back against the tyrants in power which makes up about 90% of our current politicians. Together we can take our freedoms back.
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  • David H.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing the tyrant's game plan
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2023
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    The author brought into focus so many illustrations about the techniques and long term consequences of the mass manipulation that is so prevalent in our society. To me, the layout of the book is much like a classic military training session: tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and close by telling them what you told them. The sections of the book repeat topics introduced earlier in the book and work to reinforce the notion that the work of tyrants results in a cancerous rot that naturally follows the ascent to power by the totalitarian. The author makes a solid case that the life cycle follows a pattern whether it is in government, the corporate jungle, or academia. With 424 endnotes, there are so many opportunities for the reader to dive deeply into many subjects. The book is a good value and I look forward to reading more of Stella Morabito’s essays.
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  • Elizabeth P.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Be Silenced
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2023
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    This book examines the manifold destructive forces continually at work to degrade American society and culture. They are calculated in intent, and are highly pro-atheist, anti-individual and, therefore, inimical to liberty. Moreover, these radical forces continue to make inroads in attaining their objectives. Ms. Morabito cautions the reader to be informed of the sinister forces at play. I find her book to be a highly effective weapon in the arsenal of those who would resist authoritarian impulses. It is well-crafted, painstakingly documented and, indeed, downright chilling in its admonition to readers to stand for freedom now, while there is still the opportunity to do so. Freedom, like life itself, cannot be taken for granted.
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  • Trojanwife
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    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2024
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    This book is eye-opening and something our young adults should read before going to college. Learn how the psychology of creating loneliness in people, divinely created as social beings, can cripple a society and lead to tyranny.
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  • B. Blake
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, informed analysis on the state of the world
    Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2023
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    This book is fascinating. It explains so much about what is going on in the world today, and how we got here. The author has extensive knowledge and experience about the subject of tyrants and how they attempt to achieve their ends. But she also presents hope in the form of knowledge and strategies to fight against tyranny. She recommended a number of other books on the subject, but I’m content with just hers alone.
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  • Jim Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Instant classic
    Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024
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    I have read dozens of books on the subject of propaganda, mob formation, and government controls over whole cultures. This book ranks right up there with Jacque Ellul's famous 1971 book, 'Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes.' After reading this book you will understand that we all live in a real life "The Truman Show." You will find yourself asking: 'Where are the stairs?'
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  • Louise V.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Profoundly Important and Superbly Crafted
    Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2022
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    Every labor of love word in Stella Morabito’s book is a gift that needs to be cherished and shared, broadly, with others.
    Her message is clear…
    We need to stop the weaponization of loneliness that makes us deaf, dumb, and blind to the dark side. Then, we can reassert command of our lives by infusing our culture with love, compassion, virtue, and dignity!
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  • SpiritofLakotaSioux
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read so informative!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2023
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    I have read thousands of non fiction books in my life it is my passion. This is in the top 5 of the best books I have ever read. A must read for anyone who thinks outside the box and refuses to accept the garbage that comes out of the mouths of the clowns at the BBC, MNSBC, KSF0, CNN, Joe Scarborough, Geraldo, The View, or The Squad to name but a few. This book will stop you in you tracks and make you see what really is happening in our western society. Well done Amazon for making it available to purchase!
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  • R. Michael Fisher
    2.0 out of 5 stars This book is a Manipulation!
    Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2023
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    I liked the book potentially from it pointing out how "fear" is manipulated in societies. The title sounded good. The back cover was psychologically intriguing and seemed a fair way to perceive what most ails our society (e.g., North America, at least). There were slight signs of a "political" ideological agenda on the back cover, but not much. "Tyrants" and the tyrannical and exploitation of "fear of ostracism" are damn important. I have studied "fear" and its uses and mis-uses in a scholarly way for over 3 decades. So I bought the book trusting it would be a good overview and... then, I turned to pp. 108-10.

    What happened, was that I was trying to read this section on girls and women, to see what psychological and sociological insights re: fear would be there--and, I am then inundated, almost every paragraph, or sentence, with ideological "Right" and "Conservative" and "Traditional" agenda (and lens). I sure wished the author Stella Morabito (and the publisher) would have been more honest and transparent on the backcover book description and in the book title-- to prepare the reader with a caveat--of the political agenda of the author to trash virtually all "Left" philosophical, sociological, psychological and political views--and activities. Of course, she runs the typical game. She pulls out the worse (pathological) cases she can finds, and associates them with Left values and thought, movements--more or less, like using Patty Hearts (as one e.g.) that now she can moralize upon, in retrospect, looking at the 70s and the "cult" of conformism and see what it did to Patty.

    I scanned a bit more, to see exactly what this author was up to. And, there were no such cases that caught my eye of problems of the "fear of ostracism" and how it impacts people's behavior on the "Right" --and, so, you could pretty much guess, what the book is. It looks psychological and neutral-like (designed that way to catch the reader)--and, then slips in the ideological agenda--all over the psychological material. Really bad scholarship, journalism, or anything else that is attempting to give the topic of "weaponizing fear" (and loneliness) a 'good' coverage with balanced argumentation. Both sides, in other words, need to be critiqued equally, more or less. IF not, then tell your reader you are going to 'smear' one-side of the political spectrum during your so-called caring critique of the problem of tyranny and weaponization of emotions--especially, of fear, which is so powerful.
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