"Brain-Washing" (From a book of mine) (#14)

Brainwashing has been defined as: Intensive propoganda techniques that are applied under conditions of stress/or coercive persuasion, during which an individual is confronted by conditions deliberately designed to undermine his morale and make him question his accepted attitudes. This paves the way for indocrination with a "replacement set of beliefs" that will produce a change in behavior

Using this definition, we find that political education, religious indocrination, and general socialization can all be said to contain elements of brainwashing since all three have the same basic goal : to replace a persons present beliefs and behavious with beliefs and behaviors more in line with the agenda of whomeever is doing the brainwashing.

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Brainwashing or, mind manipulation can be seen literally ALMOST everywhere, sometimes in the crevices between the most common or thought well of things, even the "good" things in life.

And i make this post only to show people, hopefully to be aware of that manipulation can be used for our "good" or our "bad".

As the saying goes...A knife can be used to cut sausage, or used to cut someones throat.