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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You have to be a sociopath basically. This is a person with no empathy for other people, who has learned to use what would normally be a disadvantage as a way to manipulate others. Because they have no emotional reactions to anything you say, they learn to fake it in conversation, and even start to pick up on ways to subtly influence you. There is no conscious in this person to stop them from abusing these exploits, so they only get better at it as time goes. Eventually, they gain the skills to orate random gibberish for hours, peppering in little inferences to decrease your self esteem until you get to the point where you question your own sanity. It is at this point where you are most vulnerable to the power of suggestion. In this way, they create willing slaves to magnify their own influence. It is basically a process of sophisticated abuse that breaks a person psychologically so they can be remolded.
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