- 27 Mar 2015 22:30
#14541105
A lot of mass media products have made fun of the concept of "brainwashing," often depicting it as the work of goofy mad scientists with spinning pop-art pinwheels.
But we really are all exposed to brainwashing through commercial advertising.
The two main psychological weapons of advertising (and other propaganda media) are transference and repetition.
This combination can actually "erase" the natural emotions and empathy of millions of human minds simultaneously, and could thus be said to have "washed brains."
It's not sci fi craziness. It's our sad reality.
This isn't what brainwashing looks like. This is what commercial media (brainwashers) want you to think it looks like. They want you to think brainwashing looks crazy like this so that you'll then think that you can identify and protect yourself from it.
What brainwashing actually looks like is a Pepsi logo at a ball stadium or a cellphone's appearance at the climax of a movie. And we've all been having a hard time protecting ourselves from that.
[youtube]ib-Qiyklq-Q[/youtube]
The 60s generation saw this ad thousands of times while watching popular TV shows
But we really are all exposed to brainwashing through commercial advertising.
The two main psychological weapons of advertising (and other propaganda media) are transference and repetition.
This combination can actually "erase" the natural emotions and empathy of millions of human minds simultaneously, and could thus be said to have "washed brains."
It's not sci fi craziness. It's our sad reality.
This isn't what brainwashing looks like. This is what commercial media (brainwashers) want you to think it looks like. They want you to think brainwashing looks crazy like this so that you'll then think that you can identify and protect yourself from it.
What brainwashing actually looks like is a Pepsi logo at a ball stadium or a cellphone's appearance at the climax of a movie. And we've all been having a hard time protecting ourselves from that.
[youtube]ib-Qiyklq-Q[/youtube]
The 60s generation saw this ad thousands of times while watching popular TV shows
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange