Mark Henkel > Recent Status Updates

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INDEX pp.299-311
About the Author Pg 312

References Complete

Rather than use End- or Footnotes and Bibliography,
this section offers sources fro each of the 6 parts of the book.

Acknowledgments Complete

"I especially want to thank the many misbelievers."
...I appreciate your willingness to engage with me & help me understand this complex world we live in."

I NOTE:
By 2025,
in terms of what I call #Covid1984
and the #TrumpDerangementSyndrome so common in academia, the media, and the ousted political party leaders,
the biased-author HIMSELF
turns out to be MISBELIEVER
of now-proven truth!

Ch.12 Complete
Why Superman Gives Me Hope
A Final Word (Not Really)

Pp.288-289
"If you'd asked me 10yrs ago whether
mistrust &misinformation were big issues,
I'd have shrugged them off...
Now... top of my list...
...Misinformation...
as a real threat to our ability to come together
and solve larger challenges"

(by 2025 #Covid194 has since been a proven tyranny
to which AUTHOR had succumbed to ACTUAL msinformation)

Ch.11 Complete
Can We Afford to Trust Again
--and Can We Afford Not To?

Pg.272
"all of this is a story about trust and the erosion of trust"

Misses that IMPOSITION Creates OPPOSITION ™

Twice author has access to elites that regular people never have

Mistrust &the Media

(unwittingly shows media IS propaganda)

Temptation Not to Trust

(Neglects govt IMPOSING creates distrust
rather than "stop IMPOSING: solution)

PART 6 Begins
MISBELIEF, TRUST, AND THE STORY OF OUR FUTURE

Ch.10 Complete
The Social Accelerator

Cognitive Dissonance

Fake Conspiracy, Real Community?

Using Extremity to Enhance Identity

Pg.255
"half-bearded devil... Illuminati... & Bill Gates"

Identity, Polarization, &the Acceleration of Misbelief

Jonathan Haidt
NBC News

Pg259
"we're all...misbelievers"

Social Media - as Elite, Author access to platform team

Those who left QAnon
(But same of who left progessivism)

Ch.9 Complete
Ostracism, Belonging, and the Social Attraction of Misbelief

"Misbelievers"
"suspicious of govts... finds all the govt-issued restrictions during Covid-19 pandemic confusing & frustrating"

Says it's understandable that "Misbelievers" attracted to people who feel likewise, while author does the same

Ostracism drives Misbelievers deeper into Misbelief

Does not realize: IMPOSITION Creates OPPOSITION ™

***PAST NOTE HERE***
PART 5 Begins
THE SOCIAL ELEMENTS AND THE STORY OF TRIBALISM

Ch.8 Complete
An Attempt to Classify the Role of Personality in the Funnel of Misbelief

Various tests I did extremely well

Pp199:
15/9 = 1.7 out of 100

Intellectual Humility
Pp.206:
1120/18 = 62.2 avg, mostly with "it depends in principles"
(eg, I'll never be a nazi or socialist)

Pp.212
Cognitive Reflection Test
I got ALL 3 CORRECT

Heuristics
D.Kahnenman
Conjunction fallacy
Illusory correlations
Hindsight bias

Ch.7 Complete
Lessons on Personality from Alien Abductees

Covid1984 &
how one becomes "misbeliever"
(ignoring IMPOSITION CREATES OPPOSITION™)

Personality Traits & States

Not "trusting establishment" = Misbeliever

Conspiracy Theories test
I avgd 16.1 / 100 = LOW!

Authors admits deceptive & defaults to assumption

Sleep paralysis & Alien Abduction
False Recall & Recognition

2nd self-test
I avgd 1.25 / 100 = LOW!

PART 4 Begins
THE PERSONALITY ELEMENTS
AND THE STORY OF OUR INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

Ch.6 Complete
Working Hard to Believe What We Already Believe

Motivated Reasoning

Pg.138
"my friends on the Left"

Drop Defensive Mindset

Misses fact
IMPOSITION CREATES OPPOSITION ™
blames distrusting "misbelievers" "looking for villains"

Lots of author progressive bias he should not have used
b/c it was proven wrong after book published

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Bicycle Test

Paradoxical Persuasion

Overconfidence

Ch.5 Complete
Our Search for the Truth We Want to Believe In

Author makes some good ideas about generalizations leading to confirmation bias, while doing the very same thing himself in favor Covid1984 tyranny for example.

Page 126, the Wason Cards
4 7 E K
If even numbers will have a vowel on the reverse side,
which cards do you turn over to prove that hypothesis?

Most people search to confirm, not to disprove.

PART 3 Begins
THE COGNITIVE ELEMENTS AND THE STORY OF OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL INFORMATION-PROCESSING MACHINERY

Ch.4 Complete
Picking a Villain as a Way to Regain Control

Completely missing impact of IMPOSITIONS on people,
as if such IMPOSERS are only causing "stress" for people who become OPPOSERS,
this book mistakenly uses now-disproven examples of
Covid1984 and
the framed set-up of "Jan.6 insurrection"
to smear "Misbelievers" as
emotional & finding villains
rather than hold the IMPOSERS accountable.

"Psychology of Hate"

Monday, December 1, 2025

Ch.3 Complete
Pressure, Stress, Bending, and Breaking

Rather than realize the
IMPOSITION Creates OPPOSITION,
author propagandizes on behalf of the "Elites"
while pretending to not be doing so,
by mis-labeling people who were
devastated by the IMPOSED
tyranny of Covid1984
as f they are simply
being scared, emotional, and distrusting excuse-blamers
while author never holds
the IMPOSERS accountable at CAUSE at all!

PART 2 Begins
THE EMOTIONAL ELEMENTS AND THE STORY OF STRESS

(This actually began 2 days ago on
Friday. November 28, 2025)

Ch.2 Complete
The Funnel at Work

Misbelievers'
4 stages of "Funnel of Misbelief"
1.Emotional Elements
2.Cognitive Elements
3.Personality Elements"
4.Social Elements

Pg.36 Figure 2 is too dark ink to view fully

Pg.17-18
"our socity's level of trust is decreasing"

"Mistrust... thrives on a loss of trust"

"Mistrust begets mistrust"

Mistrusting everything:
govt, medical profession, nonprofits, media, & the elites"