We are all Brainwashed.

[FrankOneParticipant 1417]

I would argue it depends how much discernment you have. I don’t watch much TV, but I’m not going to go to a car dealership and buy a new Lexus no matter how many commercials they show, because I know it will depreciate hugely when I drive it off the lot. I’ve had 3 cars in the last 30 years. I have minimalism down pat, having lived it for over 25 years. Advertising is designed to get you to buy s~~~, either by making you think it’s so much better than what you have, or that you’re missing out and need to keep up with the Jones’s. Hell, I’m typing this on a 55 inch TV, it’s plenty large enough since the stand is 6 feet away from me and I’m relaxing on my couch in the living room. Do I really need a 72″ TV? NO! There is beginning to be a move AWAY from this consumerism, towards experiences, but I don’t think a large segment of the population is moving towards minimalism.

The average person IS going to spend most of their disposable income, and many will spend MORE than their disposable income (living on credit). So these advertisers are just vying between each other what it will be spent upon.

The brainwashing also extends to the STORIES; a progressive agenda is promoted in fictional TV. A fictional agenda is promoted as ‘News’ which has become more ‘entertainment’. K-12 education is a brainwashing in many subjects, where the student is taught a false narrative in history, economics, and the social sciences. I refer to the public schools as ‘indoctrination centers’. When I’m confronted upon my choice of words, my retort? Do 80%+ of the teachers have the same political views? Same question I pose, when discussing mainstream media bias. The more intelligent sheepishly answer ‘Yeah, but they’re PROFESSIONALS and they’re ‘OBJECTIVE’… Hahahahahaha

[Anonymous 14]

I have had my sunglasses on for about a decade now, I see everything more clearly than I like to most days.

[black_knightParticipant 2602]

FrankOne wrote:

I refer to the public schools as ‘indoctrination centers’.

In more ways than one. For example, children are indoctrinated continually that drugs are bad. Laws say the same thing. Social messages say the same thing. Yet, simultaneously, schools endorse their pupils being pumped full of Ritalin to make them concentrate more on schoolwork. As there is no distinction between drugs in the ‘drugs are bad’ mantra, why then is one drug acceptable, and another is not? It’s because drugs ‘out there’ are not ‘these drugs in here’. The message should be “their drugs are bad, ours are good”.

But good for whom? Who does it benefit to pump children full of Ritalin? It benefits goverments, who, on the neo-liberal and globalised world stage need performing economies. And in our technological, information, and intellectual age, one way to achieve such economies is to ensure the best brains are developed – thus all children are farmed according to the most important thing of all: cognitive performance. Nevermind that the child that can’t sit still should instead be in dance classes, or performing arts. Stuff them full of Ritalin and associate the resulting behaviour with ‘good’ behaviour. Then every parent, through their guilt, shame, and fear, will strive to ensure this behaviour, lest their children become set in the sights of social services, or be deemed a dropout. I f~~~ing hate people. I’ve lost count of the number of parents – mostly single mothers – who I’ve heard say “I’ve got him on Ritalin” or “the doctor put her on Ritalin for her ADHD”. And I want to rip my eyes out at the lack of critical thinking.

ADHD, ah yes, a condition constructed by the psycho-pharmaceutical industry to justify a lucrative income for themselves through manipulating parents’ fears. It is of no surprise that 100% of the consultants who devised one of the latest editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders (DSM) had financial links to the pharmaceutical industry. Yes, 100%. I’ve not got the paper, so cannot source it, but I’ve read it with my own eyes, and I’m sure a google search (google scholar search?) would reveal it should anybody care to seek it out. You can probably also bet most of these lobby in government.

As I said in an earlier post, the most fundamental question to ask about anything said, shown, or written is: who benefits?

[HitmanParticipant]

[GrumpyParticipant]

I can read and comprehend in the “correct” English format.
I also learned to read backwards, upside down, incorrect spelling order, and through “light” paper/parchments, without changing the position of my head.
I had a “gift” for it, and was further trained to enhance that ability. Sometimes it led to rather tense moments.
Brainwashing or conditioning?(semantics)
I dunno, maybe we just need some mental floss once in a while.

@ hitman.
Yes I read that without effort.

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[FrankOneParticipant 1417]

Black Knight: Basically, they (Edumacators) argue recreational drugs are bad for,your health. I would tend to agree, but I don’t see great harm in moderate use of alcohol or marijuana for instance.

When these drug warriors balk at legalization, I like to tell them you could buy cocaine at a drug store in America at one time, and everyone was not overdosing and dieing in the streets. Then, for s~~~s and kicks, I argue you could buy whatever you wanted in an earlier era when we lived in a FREE country and government comprised 10% of GDP instead of 40% as it does today. I mention I don’t think I should work Mon and Tue every week to pay for government, I’d rather have the 10% size and just work 3.5 days a week. It doesn’t make them mad and gets them thinking.

And prescription medications can certainly be abused, as you note Ritalin is ridiculously over-prescribed.

[OldBillParticipant]

Become an educated consumer of media.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[GnosticParticipant 2491]

Brainwash is but a word. More importantly does the brainwashing benefit you? In my youth I brainwash myself on a daily basis for my own benefit.

If brainwashing make you do things that harm you then you have to snap out of it. If brainwashing make you do things that benefit you then it is good.

The litmus test will always be the cost benefit analysis.

Here is an extract from my introduction.

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In secondary school I came across a mentality called “Stealing The Mind” I did not know its name at that time, but it is a method of controlling your like and dislike to produce a better outcome for yourself. It is reprogramming / brainwashing your own mind.

In a group holiday tour we are visiting a strawberry farm and eating strawberries we picked. There are people complaining that the strawberries is not as good as they expected. The strawberries is not really ripe, the other farm sell cheaper and better strawberries and so on. A man then said “Hey, we should think these strawberries are delicious so we can enjoy the food and keep the complains later. We cannot change anything by complaining and it hurt our appetite. If we think these strawberries are the most delicious things ever, we can enjoy them.”

I don’t remember word for word, but the gist of it is we are smarter to enjoy things that we cannot change, we just look from another perspective and change things we can. We can be happier to flip our mentality to like things we cannot change like already bought the strawberries and change things that we can, like our like dislike of the strawberries. The strawberries ain’t s~~~, it is better then average, why should we diminish our enjoyment of them because there are better strawberries? And yes the strawberries tasted better because we thought so.

After that, it make me thinking, if we can reprogram our like dislike that way, what different are we from robots? These are metal robots that get their thinking and behavior download by cable or CD. We are protein robots that get our software downloaded by the environment, books, society. For now we may be more complicated protein robots, but the ability to program ourselves should be the same like the metal robots.

Around that time I failed physics and have bad grades on other subject. I dislike warping my mind to understand the formulas and workings and am lazy to study. I then thought what if I brainwash myself to like studies and such? What if this protein robot twist its dislike to like?

It is not easy. I tried a lot of things. Starting with the little things, I did the opposite of what my desires told me, as long as my logic tells me doing the opposite of my desires will not harm me. If I like something I give it to other people, if I like to eat something I give it to other people, or wait half and hour before eating and drinking water to prevent gastric. I stop doing things that I like but does not benefit me. I stop playing games, watching video, reading novels and such. I fear the dark, I purposely go to dark places and bask in it. When I hear music that distract me I stop the radio or go to other places. If I see a pretty girl that distract me I will look other way or look at the ground. (This practice make it easier to break the illusion of women). I have a numbers of relapse like a drug addict but slowly my desires give way to my mind.

In the end when I flip my mental switch and say yes I love this, I enjoy this; my body and brain will become hot, my breath lengthen, I start to laugh and enjoy the task I set for myself. I truly enjoy it as I slay equation after equation and experience each eureka moment. Studying become easier and easier and when I look back at my old self, I wonder how come my old self is stump by such an easy problem?

I focus my entire being on studying. My routine become eat, cycle, study, sleep, bath. I don’t allow my mental resource to be directed to anything else. And from a fail student I scored high enough to earn a conditional scholarship. That’s why I think men are inherent intelligent, they just let their desires to keep them sidetracked and after being sidetrack long enough they cannot compete with other men who don’t get sidetracked. Unless they put in A greater amount of effort.

I recognize one of my desires, my distraction is pretty women, and won’t allow myself to get sidetrack. I am lucky to conduct this brainwashing experiment during puberty and keep me away from the vices of women. Practicing no sex before marriage helps too. Nature makes the desire for women a powerful drug.

I tried a number of things breaking my attraction for women. I imagine my eyes are X-ray and see beneath the skin. This is the skull, the bones, the marrow, the ligaments. What’s so pretty about it? This is the intestine, Yuck, all women carry s~~~ with them everywhere. No matter how beautiful a woman she will s~~~, she will urinate, she will sweat, her nose have s~~~, her ears have s~~~, her eyes have s~~~, her mouth will smell until she brushes in the morning and she will vomit. What’s so great about her. Visualize the toilet and the things she do in the toilet make me nauseous and lose the attraction quickly. After doing that a lot of times my brain is train not to bother me like Pavlov’s drooling dogs experiment.

My self reprogramming experiment don’t end there. In my first job I am paid half the market rate, have to do things outside my job scope like driving, picking up goods and personal, doing technician wiring and drilling when I am an engineer. I thought to myself, well I will just think that I am still in the university. And this is the best university ever. This university have driving curriculum so you know the lay of the land. This university let you experience the job of people who work under you so you will not be cheated by them. What university pay you to learn instead of you paying them while subsidizing for your mistakes? I shall learn as much as I can before I graduate.

After 3 years I have a sizable boost in my salary and was promoted to assistant manager. I then graduate for another company about twice the pay
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There is no magic in MGTOW, just recognition of the truth and logical decision how to avoid dangers. The red pill is but the truth, it is no magical potion. Do not think in this modern world men have no longer have natural enemies, men are prey to women and government.

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