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Anonymous:
Can someone provide some perspective on the original post? Who wrote it? Who was it written to?
Anonymous:
I'd like to add some comments. I'm probably one of the people the original author would consider extremely suggestible---I self-hypnotize very easily, I go into altered states very easily. And when I was younger I was much more susceptible to true-believerism.
One of the things the author doesn't consider enough is that big caveat: as long as it doesn't go against the listener's morals, religion, or self-preservation.
With the exception of the last, in some sense and to some extent we're talking about the person's prior "programming."
Except there's that self-preservation caveat. What happens when a person is exposed to a LOT of alpha-state manipulation in multiple directions?
Remember when he/she was talking about army programming and that cynicism meant it "didn't take"?
There's a real world "experiment" in the person of the large numbers of kids following the baby boom generation---kids who grew up in front of the TV and maybe as kids wanted to buy everything advertised on it.
The advertisers first named this generation "generation X" when they noticed that there was a gap in their marketing---a group of people they were having real trouble selling to. A group characterized by a cynicism and an unwillingness to be "sold".
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Self preservation.
How many people in that generation begged their parents for a toy that looked good on TV, or saved their money for it, only to find out it was a piece of crap? Lots.
When the environment gets saturated with a lot of conflicting "buy me" signals, people's self-preservation sense kicks in and triggers cynicism as a survival reflex.
This is why to really brainwash someone, and keep them that way, you have to have isolation and physical control over them---you have to be able to screen out conflicting suggestions, or just suggestions that compete for enough of their behavior to trigger self-preservation wholesale rejection of a large class of suggestions.
I strongly suspect that this is why secularism increases where freedom of religion is present.
It's not necessarily rational to panic about all attempts at subliminal programming in the broad environment. It is rational to be very concerned about an organization or group being able to isolate people and control their sources of information so that the organization's programming is the *only* programming hitting the person's brain.
Again, the big danger of restrictive boarding schools is their power to isolate the kids.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---This is why to really brainwash someone, and keep them that way, you have to have isolation and physical control over them---you have to be able to screen out conflicting suggestions, or just suggestions that compete for enough of their behavior to trigger self-preservation wholesale rejection of a large class of suggestions.
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That can explain why, or suggest, that the kids in these programs may be or may have been brainwashed...but, that does not explain why the parents who place their kids in these programs can claim to also have been brainwashed. I think the parents who place their kids in these programs are tyring to brainwash their kids. I think that is exactly what they want the end result to be.
The parent who claim they too were brainwashed are just disatisfied consumers.
Anonymous:
If you think about it, life is one big behavior modification program. Thank God for sex, drugs and Rock 'n Roll.
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Anonymous:
Does anyone have access to all of the WWASP contracts that parents signed when placing their kids in WWASP programs? I would like to see exactly what is spelled out in writing in each agreement between parent and program. I am not interested in the "glossy brochures", it is the fine print in the contracts that I would like to see.
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