A recipe for brainwashing in America

[Perry]

It took me awhile to comprehend how to put into words exactly how brainwashing in America works.
I'm going to attempt to explain it here and you can tell me what you think.

First off you start by dumbing down a nation. Take control of the education system and instead of giving children math problems give them "math games" so that they can both learn and stay entertained. Build insecurity in children by drowning them in advertising and useless entertainment that tell them they're not good enough, pretty enough or strong enough. Convince parents that if a child can't sit still there is something wrong with him or her and that they need speed to be made normal. Since more and more children have increasingly lower self-esteem Lower the standards of schoolwork so that all the kids can get good grades. Remove facts from history and teach positive patriotism only. Teach them that there is only good and bad and that if they don't choose good then they are choosing bad. In doing so we remove the childs ability to be objective.
Skip forward years in time.
Planes crash into towers and thousands of people are brutally and senselessly slaughtered.
Play it on the TV again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
Pound the pain and suffering into their consciousness.
We know from nazi experiments and other work in the various fields of psychiatry that when an individual undergoes psychological trauma they are especially receptive to manipulation as they are looking for logical answers and therefor a way to escape the confusion and pain.

Now your person is hurting and confused and since you have robbed them of the history of Americas violence and crimes against Arab nations they have no context to put the attacks in. They are now desperately looking for answers.
"Who did this and why would they do such a thing"?
Now strike! Provide them with their needed answer.
The terrorists hate us. They hate our freedom. We are innocent. They are evil and we must destroy them. If you are not with us you are against us.
Then continue to maintain & escalate the fear by constantly warning them of the danger they are in.

You see...there's nothing hocus pocus about it. It's simple psychology, social engineering and the deprivation of relevant facts and information.

There are many other similar recipes and all components are not necessarily needed to achieve said results.

[Deborah K]

....and it all started with Edward .......L...........Bernays..........American nephew of Sigmund Freud.

[RideTheDirt]

Very interesting, I believe you have overcome the suppression of intellect, like many young are starting to do. It gives me a lot of hope, knowing that even if Ron Paul doesn't get in the white house, we have millions fighting for not only his ideas, but their own.Liberty will overcome this hardship and will live on through US.We will have children who we will teach how to be great people, who will do the same for our grandchildren.Liberty cannot die.People love freedom, but currently have been fed so many lies that they cannot decipher truth.Brainwashed does not fully encompass the oppression that The United States should never have been subjected to.

[Zolah]

Great post, you've managed to put it into better words than I could myself.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

First off you start by dumbing down a nation. Take control of the education system and instead of giving children math problems give them "math games" so that they can both learn and stay entertained. Build insecurity in children by drowning them in advertising and useless entertainment that tell them they're not good enough, pretty enough or strong enough. Convince parents that if a child can't sit still there is something wrong with him or her and that they need speed to be made normal. Since more and more children have increasingly lower self-esteem Lower the standards of schoolwork so that all the kids can get good grades. Remove facts from history and teach positive patriotism only. Teach them that there is only good and bad and that if they don't choose good then they are choosing bad. In doing so we remove the childs ability to be objective.

Help me here please. As the reader I shouldn't be the one having to set this up logically. Just how am I not having to fill in the blanks here?

Premise: I dumb down the nation to do what?
Premise: I take control of the education system to do what?
Premise: I build insecurity in chidlren by drowning them in advertising and useless entertainment that tells them they aren't good enough, pretty enough or strong enough to do what?
Premise: I convince parents that if a child can't sit still there is something wrong with him or her and that they need speed to be made normal to do what?
Premise: I lower the standards of schoolwork so that all kids can get good grades to acheive what purpose?
Premise: I remove facts from history and teach positive patriotism only to acheive what purpose?
Premise: I teach them that there is only good and bad and that if they don't choose good then they are choosing bad to acheive what purpose?

The statement "In doing so we remove the childs ability to be objective" implies we are all responsible for tyranny.

So far I am left with nothing to formulate a premise.


Skip forward years in time.
Planes crash into towers and thousands of people are brutally and senselessly slaughtered.
Play it on the TV again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
Pound the pain and suffering into their consciousness.
We know from nazi experiments and other work in the various fields of psychiatry that when an individual undergoes psychological trauma they are especially receptive to manipulation as they are looking for logical answers and therefor a way to escape the confusion and pain.

Premise: I play this on the TV again and again . . . to do what?
Premise: I pound the pain and suffering into their consciousness to do what?

Premise: Nazi experiments and other work in the various fields of psychiatry (psychology?) that when an individual undergoes psychological trauma they are especially receptive to manipulation as they are looking for logical answers and therefore a way to escape from the confusion and pain.

Premise: ?


Now your person is hurting and confused and since you have robbed them of the history of Americas violence and crimes against Arab nations they have no context to put the attacks in. They are now desperately looking for answers.
"Who did this and why would they do such a thing"?
Now strike! Provide them with their needed answer.
The terrorists hate us. They hate our freedom. We are innocent. They are evil and we must destroy them. If you are not with us you are against us.
Then continue to maintain & escalate the fear by constantly warning them of the danger they are in.

Major Premise: Attack Iraq with war.
( Now strike! Provide them with their needed answer.
The terrorists hate us. They hate our freedom. We are innocent. They are evil and we must destroy them. If you are not with us you are against us.
Then continue to maintain & escalate the fear by constantly warning them of the danger they are in.)
Minor Premise: Americans are ignorant of history.
(Now your person is hurting and confused and since you have robbed them of the history of Americas violence and crimes against Arab nations they have no context to put the attacks in. They are now desperately looking for answers. Who did this and why would they do such a thing?)
Conclusion: Use Americas ignorance to attack Iraq.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Great post, you've managed to put it into better words than I could myself.

Could you please put this message in poorer words? I would find it utterly fascinating!

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

....and it all started with Edward .......L...........Bernays..........American nephew of Sigmund Freud.

Do you really understand this post, Deborah, or are you just being polite?

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Very interesting, I believe you have overcome the suppression of intellect, like many young are starting to do. It gives me a lot of hope, knowing that even if Ron Paul doesn't get in the white house, we have millions fighting for not only his ideas, but their own.Liberty will overcome this hardship and will live on through US.We will have children who we will teach how to be great people, who will do the same for our grandchildren.Liberty cannot die.People love freedom, but currently have been fed so many lies that they cannot decipher truth.Brainwashed does not fully encompass the oppression that The United States should never have been subjected to.

Major Premise: The intellects of the people have been suppressed.
Minor Premise: You and millions like you are overcoming suppression.
Conclusion: Your intellect is not suppressed.

Major Premise: We hold these liberties to be self evident and inalienable.
Minor Premise: The lessor truth will be known by the greater liberty.
Conclusion: The freeth will set you true.

[Perry]

Help me here please. As the reader I shouldn't be the one having to set this up logically. Just how am I not having to fill in the blanks here?

Premise: I dumb down the nation to do what?
Premise: I take control of the education system to do what?
Premise: I build insecurity in chidlren by drowning them in advertising and useless entertainment that tells them they aren't good enough, pretty enough or strong enough to do what?
Premise: I convince parents that if a child can't sit still there is something wrong with him or her and that they need speed to be made normal to do what?
Premise: I lower the standards of schoolwork so that all kids can get good grades to acheive what purpose?
Premise: I remove facts from history and teach positive patriotism only to acheive what purpose?
Premise: I teach them that there is only good and bad and that if they don't choose good then they are choosing bad to acheive what purpose?

The statement "In doing so we remove the childs ability to be objective" implies we are all responsible for tyranny.

So far I am left with nothing to formulate a premise.



Premise: I play this on the TV again and again . . . to do what?
Premise: I pound the pain and suffering into their consciousness to do what?

Premise: Nazi experiments and other work in the various fields of psychiatry (psychology?) that when an individual undergoes psychological trauma they are especially receptive to manipulation as they are looking for logical answers and therefore a way to escape from the confusion and pain.

Premise: ?



Major Premise: Attack Iraq with war.
( Now strike! Provide them with their needed answer.
The terrorists hate us. They hate our freedom. We are innocent. They are evil and we must destroy them. If you are not with us you are against us.
Then continue to maintain & escalate the fear by constantly warning them of the danger they are in.)
Minor Premise: Americans are ignorant of history.
(Now your person is hurting and confused and since you have robbed them of the history of Americas violence and crimes against Arab nations they have no context to put the attacks in. They are now desperately looking for answers. Who did this and why would they do such a thing?)
Conclusion: Use Americas ignorance to attack Iraq.

Well first off I thought I made it quite simple and most people seem to comprehend it. You ask one pertinent question.
That being for what purpose is all this dumbing down and micro control?
It's simple. In robbing the people of information you take from them the ability to think objectively and therefor erode their personal power.
In patriating them you are appealing to their lower privative instincts of pride(see Edward Bernays).
In short you are controlling their view of the world so that when circumstances arrive, whatever they may be, you are able to quickly and efficiently steer their train of thought on a mass scale.

Your second question of lesser immediate importance.
To what end? My answer... does it matter?
. If the wind is blowing north an educated man knows that the air pressure to the north is lower and therefor the higher pressure air to the south is rushing to fill in the void.
All an uneducated man knows is that that the wind is blowing north.
In both cases the wind is moving north.
All that matters is that it is. Knowing the end game is not pertinent to the facts and the facts do not depend on us knowing the answer to this question.
The only reason this second question can become pertinent is if you are confronting it from the perspective that this all sounds too fantastic to be believed in spite of the evidence.

[hawaiisb]

Great post.

[Deborah K]

Do you really understand this post, Deborah, or are you just being polite?


Yes, I understand where he is coming from on this subject. He is coming from here:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=century+of+self&hl=eN&sitesearch=#

and here:

http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html

The OP has his own perspective, but read #10 of the Communist Manifesto:

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Americans are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, but are actually "government force-tax-funded schools " Even private schools are government regulated. The purpose is to train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" . These are used so that all children can be indoctrinated and inculcated with the government propaganda, like "majority rules", and "pay your fair share". WHERE are the words "fair share" in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26)?? NO WHERE is "fair share" even suggested !! The philosophical concept of "fair share" comes from the Communist maxim, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need! This concept is pure socialism. ... America was made the greatest society by its private initiative WORK ETHIC ... Teaching ourselves and others how to "fish" to be self sufficient and produce plenty of EXTRA commodities to if so desired could be shared with others who might be "needy"... Americans have always voluntarily been the MOST generous and charitable society on the planet.

[Danke]

One problem I have with this premise is, many "mature" (older) adults who were schooled long before fuzzy math, etc. reacted similarly to the scared, vengeful, dumb down generation you speak of.

[Deborah K]

One problem I have with this premise is, many "mature" (older) adults who were school long before fuzzy math, etc. reacted similarly to the scared, vengeful, dumb down generation you speak of.


Precisely. Look at the vid I posted. Edward L. Bernays did his damage in the early part of the 20th century. Did you know that when the word "Propaganda" became derogatory, he simply changed it to "Public Relations" ?

Wordsmithing is a part of the brainwashing. Ever read "1984" ? Everyone has heard of it, but have you actually read it? Here is a link to get you started: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/section1.html

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH


I had an English/Literature teacher in high school who made us read TWO of Orwell's books: Animal Farm, and 1984. Lots of classroom discussion about it and I can tell you, it planted the seeds in me that have since flowered into the political acitivist that I am today.

We are ALL being manipulated. Some of us are aware of it, and some of us aren't. Those of us who know and have the courage, are trying to change things. I would venture a guess that all Ron Paul supporters fall into that former category in one way or another.