Someone better let these Jamestown folks know.
Posted on 06/16/2019 5:18:55 AM PDT by aspasia
media outlets ranging from Vice to the Daily Beast to, just today, the New York Times have employed the term “brainwashing,” almost entirely uncritically.
The problem with that, which apparently has occurred to none of these outlets whose writers from time to time advertise their reverence for “science,” is that there is no such thing as brainwashing. It is a concept with no scientific basis, generally regarded as pseudoscience. It is mainly a literary device, one popularized by The Manchurian Candidate.
“Brainwashing” is right up there with “recovered memories,” “multiple-personality disorder,” homeopathy, chiropractic, reiki, the anti-vaccine movement, and the terror of GMO vegetables in the catalogue of voguish nonsense that has made its way at least partly into the mainstream of American life.
Everybody loves science — until they don’t.
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I’ve run into some of the same people you describe. Very sad.
There is brainwashing, and it’s practiced wherever leftists are in control: schools and media.
Someone better let these Jamestown folks know.
The psychiatric kind (Lifton) where stages are identified from, assault on identity, guilt, self-betrayal, breaking point, leniency, compulsion to confess, channeling of guilt, releasing of guilt, progress and harmony, final confession and rebirth.
The cult kind (cultivate, inculcate) whereby a leader induces a herd mentality of idolizing admiration to the point of irrational excess.
The Catholic/Protestant-kind where you are induced from youth into religious truths.
The public school kind, achieved chiefly by suppression of information and ostracizing and punitive redirection.
The journalist kind, typically called propaganda, a form of repetition that believes the more often something is said the more true it is.
Williamson's profound insight was prompted by recent press reporting of the Nxivm sex *cult* case.
Ask Korean War Vets.
Pinched a nerve in my neck several years ago, life debilitating pain 24/7
Considered putting a bullet in my brain to end it all. My Dr. recommended neck surgery.
Finally went to a chiropractor out of desperation.
he diagnosed me in 30 minutes and I was on the way to recovery.
The author of this article has experienced his brain being washed away. He is nuts.
He has no idea what he is writing about.
If brainwashing isn’t real, then how do you explain where you can talk a person into giving up his life, man’s strongest “will,” in trade for gaining an unproven glorious afterlife of earthly sins you never would get in that life? It’s called Islam and there are an estimated 609 Million of them in the world. Just a fad?
rwood
Oberlin was an absolute festival of brainwashing.
To manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
Hmmm, I never heard of that....
I’ve gone through a very long time in my life with headaches. Sometimes I think some are mild seizures but the quacks say no.
Pills help some but chiropractic does the most for me.
I know about being in constant pain and misery.
(it is)a lie...that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces. It hasn’t. The white middle class may like the idea of Trump as a giant pulsing humanoid middle finger held up in the face of the Cathedral, they may sing hymns to Trump the destroyer and whisper darkly about “globalists” and — odious, stupid term — “the Establishment,” but nobody did this to them. They failed themselves.
If you spend time in hardscrabble, white upstate New York, or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy — which is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog — you will come to an awful realization. It wasn’t Beijing. It wasn’t even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasn’t immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasn’t any of that.
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.
In this guy's demented world of course ther isn't any brainwashing, truth to homeopathy or chiropractic, GMOs won't hurt your nor will gluten or soy...you're just looking for a handout.
People like this are just like Soviets...do what I say, get back to work and stop whining.
I will call it mass mind control, because that’s exactly what it is, and it works extremely well, although not on everyone, but certainly on most.
What’s the point of it? I clicked on it but there were so many pop-ups distorting the screen. LOL. I guess NRO is in need of money.
“How did mankind treat illnesses before Bayer, Pfizer, and The FDA?”
Not very effectively.
:)
If anyone should give him the benefit of the doubt, he wasn't very thorough in his blurb.
Notice the gay Mr. Williamson doesn’t use the biggest brainwashing/lie of all: transgenderism.
Chiropractic care works for those with an issue it can help. Like a miracle.
For those with circumstances not served by adjustment, it seems like voodoo.
It’s like architecture or engineering for the body.
Once you get the foundation, alignment and support structures in the correct relationship, everything is groovy.
“Don’t call it brainwashing; call it indoctrination.”
One and the same, with “brainwashing” being the more dramatic term.
Does this genius not believe that indoctrination exists?
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