People throw around the world ‘brainwashing’ a lot but I still don’t know what it means. Is it a ‘repeated truth’? Is it certain mind tricks? Is it some kind of chemical thing?
Disclaimer: not looking to brainwash anyone but there’s a cult in my area that apparently ‘brainwashes’ people
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Brainwashing can be as common and as subtle as the type of world viewpoint your society believes in. For example, some in the west believe that the Chinese are brainwashed by the media in China because the main media in controlled by the CCP. On the other hand, the same could be said of the news in America because it is very one-sided, vast majority of media is controlled by a handful of companies and gives viewers a certain view of the world.
Both are fair statements. If a particular piece of news is presented to viewers in either market, that particular piece of news could be presented quite differently depending on who is doing the reporting and what is their own personal / subjective bias as well as narrative they are coming from. This leaves viewers from one country with a very skewed view of the world that can be drastically different than viewers from another country.
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