PeakOil is You
Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
Re: Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
by Plantagenet » Wed 20 Jun 2007, 16:21:02
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ferrelgiraffe', 'C')an't blame Castro.
Why not?
He's been dictator of Cuba for 50 years, and oversaw the collapse in Cuba's economy. Surely he bears some responsibility.
Never underestimate the ability of Joe Biden to f#@% things up---Barack Obama
-----------------------------------------------------------
Keep running between the raindrops.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Keep running between the raindrops.
-
Plantagenet - Expert
- Posts: 26765
- Joined: Mon 09 Apr 2007, 03:00:00
- Location: Alaska (its much bigger than Texas).
Re: Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
by bobaloo » Wed 20 Jun 2007, 17:10:32
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his is brainwashing? I don't think so.
I do. Even at 10 years old in 1965 I knew it was brainwashing, and when I told my teacher I chose not to participate I was threatened with expulsion and other dire consequences. I finally prevailed and it was a very educational experience.
Patriotism is brainwashing, pure and simple.
The reason it's not so obvious to most folks in the US is that it's so pervasive, you get it every day, from every source, it's just a trickle all the time but it soaks in so deep you can't see it or hear it any more, like a constant noise from across the street that you simply can't hear until a guest comes over and asks "what's that noise?", or the stinky factory in your town that no one who lives there can smell.
American culture is like a fast river, so long as you're floating along with the current nothing seems to be happening and everything is fine. The minute you begin to struggle against the current you realize that a huge force is pushing you at high speed toward the waterfall and there's nothing you can do to avoid it.
I used to have a good buddy who moved here from Argentina when he was about 40 years old. He used to look at me and say "do you know the difference between Argentina and the US? In Argentina everyone KNOWS the media is controlled."
-
bobaloo - Coal
- Posts: 468
- Joined: Thu 14 Oct 2004, 03:00:00
Re: Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
by Pretorian » Wed 20 Jun 2007, 18:23:54
Patriotism teachings and other crap in the long run pays for itself, as our "masters" save a lot of money on herd superwising, IRS personell, military recruitings ,ets.
Anyway US's brainwashing is very, very successful one. I know one guy for example, he was smart enough to become a top-manager with a high-school diploma only, but yet he believes that if US will pull out of Iraq terrorists will come to his middle of nowhere to blow up his ass. His mindset completely constructed by US media-- whatever they talk about.
I also know a couple of middle-aged people for more than 3 years, and in these 3 years , I've never, never even heard them mentioning that they've read something. Ever.
Anyway US's brainwashing is very, very successful one. I know one guy for example, he was smart enough to become a top-manager with a high-school diploma only, but yet he believes that if US will pull out of Iraq terrorists will come to his middle of nowhere to blow up his ass. His mindset completely constructed by US media-- whatever they talk about.
I also know a couple of middle-aged people for more than 3 years, and in these 3 years , I've never, never even heard them mentioning that they've read something. Ever.
- Pretorian
- Light Sweet Crude
- Posts: 4685
- Joined: Sat 08 Apr 2006, 03:00:00
- Location: Somewhere there
Re: Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
by I_Like_Plants » Thu 21 Jun 2007, 00:43:10
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', ' ') By the way what happens with the kids who refuse to repeat it ? They get medicated? Locked up ? Bad grades? They disappear?
Well, one kid in high school refused to do it, when we said it once in a while, since he refused we all had to stand and cover our hearts etc like in elementary school and say it EVERY morning.
- I_Like_Plants
- Intermediate Crude
- Posts: 3839
- Joined: Sun 12 Jun 2005, 03:00:00
- Location: 1st territorial capitol of AZ
Re: Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
by max_power29 » Thu 21 Jun 2007, 06:34:07
The "liberty and justice for all" is a blatant lie and the whole purpose for everybody to repeat this over and over again is to get people to believe the lie. The brainwashers love this part in there. They wouldn't want to take it out for anything. They hate liberty and justice for all but they love people believing there is liberty and justice for all.
This is a major brainwashing tool in the U.S. repeat a obvious lie over and over again and people believe it.
This is a major brainwashing tool in the U.S. repeat a obvious lie over and over again and people believe it.
Iran: 'Murrica's FINAL frontier
-
max_power29 - Tar Sands
- Posts: 883
- Joined: Wed 23 Mar 2005, 04:00:00
- Location: Orygun
Re: Brainwashing: USA vs USSR
by NoLogos » Thu 21 Jun 2007, 09:47:14
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobaloo', '
')I used to have a good buddy who moved here from Argentina when he was about 40 years old. He used to look at me and say "do you know the difference between Argentina and the US? In Argentina everyone KNOWS the media is controlled."
')I used to have a good buddy who moved here from Argentina when he was about 40 years old. He used to look at me and say "do you know the difference between Argentina and the US? In Argentina everyone KNOWS the media is controlled."
Even the most ignorant of Americans will admit that every source of media in the US of any size is controlled by a corporation. Any corporation is in business to make money for it's stockholders, period. Nothing grows corporations but black ink, nothing kills them like red ink. These obvious facts are enough to cause problems. Throw in increasingly larger corporations controlling larger percentages of the MSM, add in a corrupt government, environmental degradation and peak oil, and the difficulties can only get worse.
The part that scares me the most is my own ignorance. We all take for granted the nice shiny technology that humankind has created. Our knowledge of nearly everything has increased greatly. How much more effective have TV commercials become over the years? Can cognitive dissonance be used to get some percentage of the population to ignore stolen money and resource wars? Can people be induced to borrow money by making them feel that everyone else is doing it? Can something as painfully obvious as Peak Oil be trivialized into oblivion?
-
NoLogos - Peat
- Posts: 68
- Joined: Mon 13 Nov 2006, 04:00:00
