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MODULE I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

  


TNBC Explainers — Part I: Power, Perception & Society

TNBC Explainers — Part I: Power, Perception & Society


Your guide to understanding how modern societies work


Welcome to TNBC Explainers — Part I

This course breaks down the foundational concepts needed to understand how power, narratives, and collective behavior shape modern societies.


Rather than reacting to headlines, TNBC Explainers focuses on the ideas behind events — the concepts that quietly influence how people think, comply, dissent, and coordinate.

TNBC Explainers — Part I is structured as a six-module course, designed to build understanding step by step.

The Six Modules in Part I


  Whether you’re watching a deep-dive analysis, a TNBC History Rhymes episode, or an exploration of contemporary political and social tensions, these explainers provide the essential vocabulary to understand what’s really happening beneath the surface.


If you want to follow the forces shaping the next big cycle, it helps to start with the concepts.

TNBC Explainers — the ideas behind the analysis.


New explainer episodes are added regularly.

Subscribe and follow the full course to build a coherent framework for understanding today’s world — and for explaining it to others.


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The Six Modules in Part I

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

    How beliefs are shaped, attention is guided, and collective behavior emerge

Module II — Power, Governance & the State

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

How authority is structured, legitimized, and enforced

Module III — Economy, Money & Financial Power

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

Module III — Economy, Money & Financial Power

  How monetary and financial systems shape societies

Module IV — Systems, Complexity & Decline

Module VI — Global Order & Macro Transitions

Module III — Economy, Money & Financial Power

  Why societies behave non-linearly — and why systems unravel

Module V — Geopolitics & International Power

Module VI — Global Order & Macro Transitions

Module VI — Global Order & Macro Transitions

  How states compete, cooperate, and project power

Module VI — Global Order & Macro Transitions

Module VI — Global Order & Macro Transitions

Module VI — Global Order & Macro Transitions

  How the world reorganizes during periods of systemic change

Module I — Perception, Narrative & Mass Behavior

1.01 Propaganda — 

Why Even Smart People Get Fooled


How information, symbols, repetition, and emotional framing are used to guide perception and behavior 

1.02 Censorship  —

Why You Don’t Know What You’re Not Seeing


 Shaping what information is accessible before people even know alternatives exist 

1.03 What is Misinformation & Disinformation —

Being Informed Doesn’t Mean Being Right


 The real problem in modern information environments isn’t just false information. It’s confusion. 

1.04 Narrative Control —

Why Reality Feels Pre-Selected


How societies decide what matters, what gets attention, and what remains unseen. 

1.05 Manufacturing Consent — 

How Public Opinion Is Shaped


Hhow public acceptance of policies, institutions, and power structures can be produced without overt coercion. 

6 1.0 Groupthink — Why Societies Make Bad Choices 


 When disagreement disappears without being resolved, evidence stops shaping outcomes — and groupthink takes over. 

 1.07 Why Surveillance Expands



As a gradual system where monitoring becomes routine infrastructure 

 1.08 Social Credit Systems — Why Compliance Gets Quantified 


 What is social control — and why does it tend to expand when systems come under strain? 

Module II — Power, Governance & the State

2.00 Who Rules — 

And How?


 Introduction TNBC Explainers - Module II 

 2.01  Social Control — How Behavior Is Shaped Without Force 


 What is social control — and why does it tend to expand when systems come under strain? 

 2.02  Ideology, Systems, and Governance 


Why Politics Keeps Talking Past Itself 

 2.03  Legitimacy — Authority Without Trust 


Why Governments Stay in Power Without Trust

2.04  Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law — When Law Limits Power, or Serves It 


Why Laws Don’t Always Protect You

 2.05  Democracy — When Choice Narrows Without Disappearing 


Why Democracy Is Shrinking 

 2.06  Technocracy — Governance by Expertise Instead of Politics 


When Decisions Are Handed to Experts

 2.07  State Capacity — What Governments Can Actually Do 


Why Can’t Governments Do What They Promise?

2.08  Authoritarianism — Control Without Meaningful Choice 


You Don't Get To Choose Anymore

2.09  Totalitarianism — Control Over Behavior, Thought, and Identity 


When Power Wants Your Mind

2.10  Nationalism — Identity as Political Infrastructure 



 Why do societies increasingly divide into “us” and “them” ? 

2.11  The Welfare State — Redistribution, Compensation, and System Stability

 

 Why do governments spend more, tax more, and borrow more — even as their ability to deliver effective outcomes appears to decline? 

 2.12 Social Fabric — Trust, Cooperation, and Social Cohesion 


Why do societies increasingly rely on rules, money, and enforcement — instead of cooperation? 


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