Jay E Clair

Exploring how people think, buy, believe and belong - through marketing, culture, tech, trends and the occasional microwaved opinion.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Happy Birthday America 🎂

[MAHA Action @MAHA_Action]

The editors of the world's most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.

"We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don't believe what is being published in those journals is trustworthy anymore."

"The BMJ, The Lancet, all of those editors have come out and said, we have a huge problem. We can't replicate this research and we actually don't even know who did the research."

"Everywhere we've looked for corruption, we've found it."

Emily Kaplan, co-founder of the Broken Science Initiative.

@broken_science

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

The best cults don’t feel like prisons.
They feel like home.
That’s the problem.
#Belonging #CultThinking #ModernCultures

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

If your belief gives you an enemy, a tribe, a script, and a reason you’re better than outsiders…
Maybe pause.
Just for a second.
Annoying, I know.
#Tribalism #SelfAwareness #CultAudit

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

The leash starts feeling like jewellery.
That’s the trick.
#Belonging #CultPsychology #YoureInACult

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

Religion didn’t disappear.
It got better branding.
Now we have:
•wellness gurus
•productivity prophets
•tech messiahs
•political purity tests
•crypto evangelists
•podcasters with sacred texts
Same furniture.
New lighting.
#ModernReligion #WellnessCulture

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

One of the most thought provoking speeches I've seen in a while.

@Miss_Snuffy on how raising a generation to see the world through oppressors and the oppressed is changing the West.

If you don't have time, bookmark it. It's worth every second.

WATCH:

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

Nobody thinks they’re drinking the Kool-Aid.
They think they’ve finally found clarity.
That’s what makes the stuff so deliciously dangerous.
#CultThinking #SelfAwareness #CriticalThinking

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

A belief becomes dangerous when questioning it makes you a traitor.
That’s the line.
Not passion.
Not community.
Not shared language.
The danger starts when doubt has a social cost.
#BeliefSystems #Groupthink #YoureInACult

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

The first red flag is not that everyone agrees.
The first red flag is that disagreement makes the room go cold.
#Groupthink #CriticalThinking #CultPsychology

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

Smart people are not immune to cultish thinking.
They’re often better at it.
Because once they emotionally commit to an idea, they can build a cathedral of logic around it by lunch.
Very impressive.
Still a cathedral.
#SmartPeopleProblems #CognitiveBias #BeliefSystems

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

A cult doesn’t need robes.
It can have:
•a podcast
•a gym
•a diet
•a group chat
•a newsletter
•a founder
•a skincare routine
•a political slogan
•a productivity system
The costume changes.
The pattern doesn’t.
#ModernCultures #OnlineTribes #YoureInACult

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

The belief you defend quickest is probably the one to audit first.

Not the weird thing your uncle believes.
Yours.

Obviously.

That’s where the bodies are buried.

#SelfAwareness #CriticalThinking #CultAudit

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

Nobody joins a cult.

They join certainty.
They join belonging.
They join people who finally “get it.”
That’s why it works.
Madness rarely feels like madness from the inside.

It feels like relief.

#CultPsychology #BeliefSystems #YoureInACult

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

@FredPawle

[Donut Operator 🍩 @DonutOperator]

Too good 🤘🤣

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

@VeryInsig @AvidCommentator A truth for green/teals: you cannot be pro-high-immigration and pro climate action at the same time.

Net migration in 2023–24 was 446,000 people.
This adds approximately 6.87 million tonnes of CO₂ annually to Australia’s total emissions.

They need to choose.

[TheGladiator @TheGladiatorHC]

🇦🇺 $20T worth of natural resources for a population of only 27M people.

That's millions of dollars per household.

We should be the richest people on planet earth.

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

@k_mahlburg I've always noted that voting in Australia is like choosing between eating shit or vomit! It feels even more prevalent now.

[Jay E Clair @jayclairsays]

@edison62 @drcwhos @charliepick @MChandlerMather which supports the fact such a policy would do F all then correct