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Has your mind been brainwashed since birth?
Posted by danielpeci • 5/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: brain science, mind programming, re programming
How many of you out there beleive that we are all been brainwashed constantly.
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Ummm...depends what you mean by brainwashed. We're all fed different people's versions of reality...from our parents to our teachers to to the media....
Who's to say what non-brainwashed reality is? -
hmm brainwashed? put the context. -
Umm...no. Your parents teach you what they think is best. When you grow up, you make your own decisions as to what is best. -
"History and simple observation of people around you show how easily the majority can be swayed. Put the right kind of carrot in front of them or the right kind of scare behind them and they will jump in the direction that you wish them to go." -Kelly
"All coercive techniques involve, on one level or another, frightening, or threatening, or intimidating a person, so that they move into survival mode." Douglas Rushkoff
Propaganda - The deliberate attempt to influence mass attitudes on controversial subjects by the use of symbols rather than force. 2. A systematic effort to persuade a body of people to support or adopt a particular product, opinion, attitude, or course of action. Propaganda and Persuasion Techniques A Guide to Identifying Manipulative Information by Virginia Stewart, M.Ed.
"Words are the new weapons, satellites the new artillery. . . . Caesar had his officers; Napoleon had his armies. I have my divisions: TV, news, magazines." -- Arch villain Elliot Carver to James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies
click here to learn more-- psychocarnival.blogspot.com/2009/04/thoughts-and-theories-on-propaganda.htm...
And yes, I think we have all been brainwashed. Of course, when you say that, it automatically labels you as being paranoid. That's the ol' catch 22, as it were. Heck, it's easier to follow blindly anyway, isn't it? Monkey see-monkey do. -
Modern Propaganda Techniques have refined to the point you won't even realize that you are brainwashed: they will persuade you that the ideas they want to implant inside your brain come from your own self
Easy to do with all the "public opinions" fabricated by medias. -
“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”
Jacques Ellul
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays
Men willingly believe what they wish.
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Most brainwashing activity is done through comercial advertising. it only takes slowing down the video images of say... a Cocopuffs ad, to see the hidden subliminal sexual imagery-
I believe ya! There are heaps of subliminal "chemtrails" in da commercials.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihn-RlibPPU
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I don't know & I'm trying to find it out -
Brainwashing determines that you must have a brain to start off with.
*GRIN* -
I'm with elitethinker on this one -
Well my father tried but it didn't work. I think there are always attempts to manipulate our thinking by families, advertizing, politics, religion etc. If one is aware of it, or has had to deal with it they develop unconscious automatic defense system (those little red flags). Avoiding advertizing, toxic controlling families and not limiting one's exposure to news helps greatly.
We cannot stop being influenced but I do believe we can develop ways to recognize it and accept or reject it. -
Of course, we are, especially when we're very young (and our parents are also at that time, usually). And it has a big influence on how we behave when we get older. So we should really be very careful on how we behave when our children are young, they will just "absorb" our behaviour and probably replicate it later. Easier said than done, I agree... -
I can say with all honesty I have NOT replicated the behaviour of either of my parents.
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Well, maybe your parents were not the same when you were very young. You just do not remember how cool they were...
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"Well, maybe your parents were not the same when you were very young"
My father was a horrible man when I was little and he is still a horrible man. I stand by what I said.
He was a master manipulator, and I saw how he did it, how could make a person feel wonderful. Then he would start to peel away the layers and manipulate, triangulate, target gossip mean things about them, and use emotional techniques to get them to do what he wanted until he got sick of them. -
not all parents are cool, we all have different stories to tell
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I don't know about 'since birth' but it's pretty obvious that the vast majority are subjected to a sort of brainwashing. Consider attitudes to the female body...especially female body hair...the amount of people who consider underarm hair on a woman to be unhygienic but have never thought that about underarm hair on a man is staggering. If that's not brainwashing... -
Probably. After the birth of my daughter I constantly told her she was my princess that she is beautiful and smart. I tell my son he is the smartest boy in the world and he's cute. Point is they aren't lies but they are things to boost confidence. I'm more than sure, after living in domestic violence myself, all this can be erased and given a negative aspect until you begin to believe it. We mold our children. Our children act, think, and respond based on the things we do and say. -
I think we condition ourselves. We're compelled by our own choices. We believe what we choose to believe, because it's convenient or comforting or in our own self-interest. Blaming society or our parents for our problems is just a way of avoiding personal responsibility. On the level of action we're all free and can pretty much live the life we dream of. -
Yes, I think with the media and other authorities telling you what to believe and what to think a great majority of people are what's commonly called brainwashed. -
Now they are getting started earlier! Making the unsuspected fetus listen to music in the womb!
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I think to grow up in American culture, anyway, is to grow up with TV, computers, news papers, school, church, state, etc. So yes, I think there is just a "slight" (tongue in cheek) chance that we are ALL brainwashed. Hello!!
If we have to even ask this question (and it a VERY important question to ask) therein lies our answer. -
I have been so brainwashed, I just can't think straight these days...
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I can see where that idea comes from. Advertisements, TV, education....everything with it's own agenda formed to implant ideas into your head starting from a young age. But since I've gotten older I've re-washed my brain. Turned off the TV, released my self from commercial influence and found my own way. I think we can choose to do this or not. People who are more creative ususally choose to depart from things that are socially influential on a large scale. -
But if we'd been brainwashed properly, how would we know?
It's easy to let yourself be influenced by media, celebrities, forceful personalities or whatever. But you don't have to. As Bob Marley said: 'Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds'.-
Exactly what I said above. Take responsibility for your thoughts and actions and change them.
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My brain is "dry clean only." -
I love that...mine too,haha -
It's not hard to brainwash today's society - just give them a healthy dose of: celebrity news, Pop Idol, reality TV shows, the odd Soap on TV, and reveal what David Beckham wears in bed - and they're yours to control forever. -
Tehehe
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Tinfoil Hat since 1981-
I thought it was a tea cosy? -
Tinfoil was underneath it silly!
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You'll need to wear shades too...imagine the sight of crpitt in a Tinfoil Hat underneath a Tea Cosy, along with a pair of Ray Ban shades.
You'll be making a fashion statement as well as keeping brainwash free
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Definitely. I am fighting against it and want to be free from it.
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