sus

Moderator
The thing happens on its own, as it always does. Anyone who's written anything worthwhile knows it comes out on its own from God knows where.
 

version

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The man is clearly performing an exorcism. Intense interpersonal charge. He takes all your attention so that the rest of the class disappears. He speaks so quickly that your own thoughts can't get through. He induces an altered state of dizzy darkness. More eye contact than you've experienced in years.

I think they call this 'grooming' nowadays.
 

sus

Moderator
"Cringe is the failed inducement to sacredness." Note that the failure of inducement is a relational failure between hypnotist and his mark; it might reflect on either one of them.
 

sus

Moderator
Cringe as a social-distancing technique. Feeling is always in the service of the action it elicits. The experience of cringe is necessary so that a body will quickly perform the necessary denunciations, to prevent contagious transfer between the accused object and his own social reputation.
 
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