The past number of years I've been digesting Robert Sapolsky and David Eagleman's respective works on how our brains work.

Eagleman has taught me the power of the subconscious.
Sapolsky has taught me how all our behaviors are the results of a complex soup of genetic and environmental inputs.

They both question the concept of Free Will. And that's a wild concept, as our society totally believes everything is based on choices.

And if you drill down in this No Free Will argument, it can be said that we can control ourselves, but we CAN control others.

There are tons of interesting aspects one could discuss in this field, but one that pops up for me that this group might like to kick around is the ways this interaction plays out.

Trump tells people what to do, what to believe, and then they do. It's amazing, but it follows the pattern of choice/non-choice that Sapolsky describes.

And I'm certain Trump has no idea how this works, other than he stumbled upon it in life and puts it to practice.