Tucker Carlson: “Let's say you had a population that had been promised it was…”

“Or I learn a sport or I learn a language, just to put it. Into a larger governance contexts. Let's say you had a population that had been promised it was control. It had control of its own government, owned its own country. And then for, I don't know, like 50 years, you did nothing to serve their actual interests and you started to worry that they would rebel against you in some sort of violent revolution. You didn't want that. Wouldn't you do everything you could to make them dumber and more passive, lower their testosterone levels, lower their brain activity, have some kratom, have some SSRIs. Here's a benzo. Get fat. You're like, why wouldn't you want that if you wanted people to be docile? So I wrote another book called the End of Mental Illness. And in it I imagined if I was an evil ruler and I wanted to create mental illness, what would I do?” (1:09:23–1:10:00)

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