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 dont.
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Radicalized should be added.
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.
Same with homeopathy. My chiropractor used a homeopathic remedy that restored my health completely after 9 years of struggling and pain with traditional doctors.
Yeah, but watch out when she comes home with a little teddy bear gifted by the *doctor.*
Jonestown.
Whoops! Thanks for making it right.
(+ ht to Mason-Dixon.)
One of the common strategies for leftards is the inculcation or provoking some form of white guilt, white self-hatred, and white self-doubt, in whites, on the premise that a guilt ridden mind is less inclined to critical,independent rational judgement, and is more susceptible to intellectual manipulation, and a decrease in self-assertiveness.
I can’t read it due to pop-ups.
As an aside, why don’t you try out a browser extension pop-up blocker, or a browser that blocks better?
The human mind learns. That is why it exists.
Unfortunately, it can learn to distrust its own thoughts, question its own interests and trust the thought processes of others over its own.
In my view, shutting down critical thinking is “brainwashing”, and it is the centerpiece of the Democrat party in America and Communism, worldwide.
Every plank in the Democrat platform is an act of self immolation in one form or other. Kill my babies! I want to live in a dark cave! I hate the family and want to embrace a life of hedonism and disease!
Democrats buy into this just like the people at Jonestown drank his cool aid. They learn to not think for themselves and then they are trapped.
So, brainwashing DOES exist and is used extensively.
The author is one of the users of it, and a liar.
Unless he meant to say that CIA/blankslate/rebirth kind of brainwashing is nothing but destroying an individual.
Brainwashing as in a weekend of indoctrination doesn’t totally change you overnight. This is why liberals repeat the same dogma from entertainment to academia to news for years.
This is why they have drag queen story times and children’s books on sexual perversion in preschool and demand to have complex lessons on gender fluidity throughout elementary grades.
By the time the kids hit puberty, they’ve heard the same, consistent message from liberals for YEARS.
That’s not brain washing, it is a deliberate imprinting/education process.
I got that war too. There are good chiropractors and bad. The good ones can do wonders. I am a perfect example. Years of very painful back and neck trouble due to sports and stress were fixed over a few weeks of treatment and it’s not returned in over 6 years.
A word of caution from the head of the Chiropractic Association I saw a few years ago in an interview. What can be easily snapped into place can easily be snapped out of place by the wrong doctor. He also said Chiropractic treatments can’t cure things like cancer and other ailments. If your chiropractor tells you he can, run.
There is no time period specified in the definition of "brainwashing." It can last a weekend or a lifetime.
BTW, here is the etymology of the term (for you fellow language freeks)...
Brainwash"attempt to alter or control the thoughts and beliefs of another person against his will by psychological techniques," 1950, a literal translation of Chinese xi nao. A term from the Korean War.
Source: etymonline.com
A chiropractor is OK if they attended Palmer for their training. The rest are mostly quacks.
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. “
Why would anyone read beyond here?
I guess mob psychology doesnt exist either.
Open your eyes. The chiropractic profession is filled with shamsters stealing people’s money and often causing more harm. It makes it difficult for legitimate chiropractors to maintain professional standards.
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