You spelled "NPC" wrong.
I guess mob psychology doesn’t exist either.
He’s setting up a strawman and knocking it down. Does he bother to define his terms? This is the problem with unscrupulous types. When they use a word, it doesn’t usually mean what you think it does.
Advertising is a form of brainwashing when you get right down to it. Billions of dollars are spent to persuade people to buy certain products.
Indoctrination is a form of brainwashing, especially when coupled with younger students who don’t have a fully formed sense of self. Much of what passes for education today is clearly a kind of child abuse. It’s not even so much what they are teaching, it’s what they are not teaching. The ability to think critically, the weigh the source of the information, to spot classic logical fallacies, to use facts and reason and experience to shape our opinions versus emotion.
The modern university liberal arts school is just a marxist boot camp where impressionable youth is turned into reactionary foot soldiers and “community organizers” and similar. This has been ongoing for decades.
The so-called Frankfurt School aka “Social Research”, numerous communists were kicked out of Germany in the 1930s and set up shop in America, Columbia and elsewhere, where they immediately set about dismantling society. This is the thanks they gave.
Willard’s Daddy, George Romney, claims he was when he was Gov of Michigan and went with a group of politicians to Vietnam...
Then how does one explain Scientology?
He’s right so far as TV/movie/spy novel/”Manchurian Candidate” style brain washing. Can you persuade people to do & think illogical stupid things? Yes happens all the time! Often you don’t need to, they persuade themselves for various reasons. Guess that’s “brain washing” in a sense. Actually its modern marketing!
It not brainwashing, but it is conditioning.
There are tons of examples that have been used since the Catholic Church first founded the science of propaganda years ago. And it’s not a slam at the Church—they WERE the organization that created the process.
These days we often mistake intellectual laziness for brainwashed. And it’s not just a product of the left. Look for memes and repeated comments that are familiar from TV and the Internet.
I used to tell my wife that usually the people parroting propaganda with buzz words and catch phrases, never read to the end of the book.
Brainwashing is DEFINITELY not real for demonrats... if anything, they require a light rinse...
Really, our skools and moms’ basements are full of the end results of ... brainwashing.
He sounds brainwashed.
It seems to have worked on him.
Guess he has never been a prisoner of war or tortured.
So if there’s no brainwashing, what really happened to the American soldiers captured by the communists in Korea?
You spelled "NPC" wrong.
If BIG TOBACCO hadn’t dreamt up such an exceptionally effective brainwashing campaign (product placement in film and TV and print and electronic advertising), 44 million Americans probably wouldn’t still be stupid enough to smoke cigarettes.