Have You Been Brainwashed

The brainwashing starts when we are born. We are raised in a society that brainwash us to be a good citizen. To be a 'mainstream' person. So.. yeah, brainwash is real lol. But it's how life is, we are influenced by everything around us, by the laws, the customs, everything

 

In Germany, the brainwashing is operated by the public service broadcasters. They belly brushes the Left and Green Parties and they fight the Conservative Parties.

 

Republicans are brainwashed to think Democrats are corrupted and steal elections.
Democrats are brainwashed to think Republicans do the same when they win.
and none of them have proof of it, they just say it because they have been programmed to think the "other team" are bad guys and that "their team" are the good guys

 

Neutrality and critical thinking is your key to break the cycle. Being overly passionate about one subject already has chances of tilt since most likely your view is a result from some external influence

 

Personally I think distinction between indoctrination and brainwashing is rather thin. We get influenced everyday, on every direction. More so today as technology has revolutionized the way we share knowledge. And how we share it. And the way we share it. Same topic can have 10 different opinions, and all the opinions can be heard if we want so.

As younger I thought how cool it would move to USA, as it was seen as land of opportunity. Later on I started to think that they are bit full of them selfs. Not all of them but majority. Nowdays... Let's just say that I rather keep my opinions for myself. But its not just USA that has lost its glimmering golden halo. Even my own country is in sharing my disgruntlement of the way how things are done. And it's because that said increased influence that is bombarded to people for every direction. Everything for everyone in every flavour. It's chaos, and I find it rather maddening.

USA is so easy to use as example as it simply is super power in this planet. That has lead them to certain amount of arrogance that they even themselfs (not all of them... but you know what I mean) believes it.

This is what I mean:

 

Wow, I LOVE this video. Super informative thanks for sharing

 

Well, going out with wet hair will get you cold is not totally wrong. Though not true for all, it depends on the "Prakriti/Body's nature". There are people who are prone to cold. They will definitely will get cold.
The problem is, not the knowledge. But the knowledge being applied uniformly without going into the basic details of its exact area of applicability.

Its like, "barking dogs won't bite" but actually, many can

 

Everyone is a victim. From marketing to social norms to peer pressure, it's all about controlling perception.

 

Humanity is by nature tribal, we form groups and classify things as friend or foe easily, as a sorting rubric. The issue is our current society has used psychological principles derived from our understanding of the human condition to manipulate and overpower our ability to reason with emotionally evocative stimuli.

Take the charities that show commercials of kids in the third world singing about having a Merry Christmas with the number to donate plastered on the screen. That's designed to emotionally manipulate people into giving them money by showing vulnerable children. Now the value or nobility of such a things is moot. The point is it's design is to accomplish a goal. Politics functions on a similar avenue with each party selecting a set of ideals that they think will appeal to an audience and then manipulating them into voting by associating their party with that ideal. ( Trump- 'MAGA' or Obama 'Hope and Change') its all designed to exploit our tribal nature and desire to belong.

The sad reality is that our tribal nature is a evolutionary adaptive trait it's easier to survive in a group. The problem facing our society isn't brainwashing per se but too many generations raise to value emotion over truth. We're sorting ourselves in to groups that feel good to us and that affirm our choices not into groups that will challenge us or demand we toil for something.

The fault lies with us, we chose to be comfortable to be affirmed in our virtue not thinking about the slippery slope and dismissing it as a fallacy. This willful ignorance of consequences allowed too many of us to be manipulated and controlled and now we have divisions that may never be healed and two tribes who live in two different worlds.

 

Most likely. To some degree.