# Psychological Warfare Stops Progress and Plunges People into Pessimism by Susan Kokinda > “Stagnation. Abandoning the vision and progress. Turning from big dreams to small thinking. Those aren’t accidents. Those are the hallmarks of the Empire’s psychological warfare: stop the progress, stop the technology, and plunge a people into backwardness and pessimism.” > **— Susan Kokinda**, *The Saturday Wrap-Up, November 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [recording, 10:59–11:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=659s). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** Kokinda identifies stagnation, abandoned progress, lowered ambition, technological obstruction, backwardness, and pessimism as a deliberate psychological-warfare sequence; [recording, 10:59–11:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkxXlYlF9U&t=659s). Direct contiguous passage preserving “the Empire” as her term. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American Infrastructure|American Infrastructure]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Collection:** [[collections/The Politics of AI Infrastructure|The Politics of AI Infrastructure]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Susan Kokinda|Susan Kokinda]] - [[wiki/Deception|Deception]] - [[wiki/Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders|Colour Revolutions Versus American Citizen Builders]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Stagnation. Abandoning the vision and progress. Turning from big dreams to small thinking. Those aren’t accidents. Those are the hallmarks of the Empire’s psychological warfare: stop the progress, stop the technology, and plunge a people into backwardness and pessimism.” — Susan Kokinda, The Saturday Wrap-Up, November 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-susan-kokinda-psychological-warfare-stops-progress-and-plunges-people-into-pessimism ```