A couple of notes on this video:
I realize it’s painted in broad strokes, and I don’t believe every single person who has feelings about what happened to Charlie Kirk is simply behaving in the way described in the video. Rather, my intention is to illustrate broader societal and sociological trends and the ways people in power harness collective consciousness to support their own interests.
I understand that people have a lot of feelings about his assassination, and they can’t all be squeezed into one box, nor are they all products of top-down puppeteering. However, I stand by the assessment that these feelings are being amplified, manipulated, and exploited and are often based on assumptions from previous programming.
Additionally, my intention is not to diminish specific concerns about extremism and radicals, but I strongly believe these concerns are actually outgrowths of the system itself. If you are familiar with my work, you are likely aware that I view government itself as extreme, so it is unsurprising that even more fringe beliefs form on both sides of its predominant ideologies. I also believe people in power leverage concerns about extremism and other distressing realities to further divide people and keep them scared and dependent on the ruling class.
One final note: all the terms/phrases I used for left/right propaganda were so abundant that I had a hard time picking just a few (the video would have been way too long had I included as many uses of these affirmations and repetitions as I found). I want to credit filmot.com for making it so easy to find so many iterations of these terms. If you have doubts about how frequently these terms are hammered home, a search for them on this site makes it clear. You can see each term used among “leaders” in politics and mainstream media, as well as in the big-name podcast circuit and among smaller creators, demonstrating how these beliefs and rhetoric trickle down.
A few thoughts on Charlie Kirk’s assassination:
1. It’s abhorrent to celebrate murder. Even if you thought the victim was evil, celebrating more evil and wrongdoing is a sign of deep spiritual and emotional sickness. That said, I have seen similar vitriol coming from the right in their disdain for “the left” and their calls for “crackdowns” and “round-ups.” This is also sick.
2. On that note, it was heartening to see Erika Kirk champion forgiveness during her speech at Kirk’s public memorial. I hope it soothes the rage of many people, but I am generally not optimistic given Trump’s promotion of hatred and the deeply ingrained ideas and sentiments discussed in my video.
3. Watching the current regime exploit Kirk’s death to score political points and advocate for restrictions on “hate speech,” which he did not even believe existed, is concerning (as is the “Secretary of War” cloaking military violence in Jesus Christ). I expect politicians on the right to use his name as a trigger for hatred, rage, and support for anti-freedom policies in the future. “Charlie Kirk” will likely become an “affirmation” all its own.
4. I disagreed vehemently with most of what I heard Kirk say; I didn’t follow him closely, but every time he showed up in my feed, he was promoting Trump and his administration. I viewed him as an authoritarian and one who was using his platform to defend expansions of power. That said, I think he held his beliefs sincerely and believed he was doing the right and moral thing (as opposed to grifting), however misguided and dangerous that was.
In my view, his dangerous beliefs included (but are not limited to): supporting bombing cartels in an expansion and fusion of the liberty-crushing wars on drugs and terror; supporting passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill”; further involving the military in immigration; and ‘just trusting his friends in government’ regarding Epstein transparency. I also found much of his race-baiting and fixation on culture wars highly distasteful. All that said, it seems apparent he was questioning certain things, primarily Israel, and may have eventually broken from official MAGA narratives (perhaps I am projecting and overly optimistic).
5. I don’t trust the FBI, anyone in Conservative Inc., or anyone in positions of authority regarding the truth of who killed him and why.
Whatever I thought of him and his views, I hope his soul is at peace. I wish for healing for the souls of everyone grieving him, everyone mocking his death, and humanity as a whole.
Correction on this video noted 12/4/25:
While working on this post, I mistakenly read some of Le Bon’s writings to mean that when it is wanted to “stir up a crowd,” one can use the three-step process described in the video. Rather, he distinguishes between stirring up a crowd and imbuing ideas and beliefs into a crowd (the latter requires the three-step process, according to Le Bon).
He notes that to “stir up a crowd,” that crowd should have been previously prepared by certain circumstances, which I took to mean the three-step process I describe in the video. He does not appear to clarify what previous preparation is required for crowd stirring, but I still tend to think affirmation, repetition, and contagion are a key part of being able to '“stir up a crowd” in the short-term.
