Has America been brainwashed?, page 1
Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 3 times
Topic started on 4-10-2009 @ 06:10 AM by oozyism
Well at least have the thought that you might be brainwashed, I even think about it. Please read all my threads and tell me if I'm brainwashed also.

Anyways:


In the 1950's, Psychologist, Robert Jay Lifton, performed a most interesting study of Brainwashing on former Korean War and Chinese war camp prisoners.



Lifton's brainwashing study took place in a "controlled and threatening environment" devoid of "normal social reference points" designed to "add to the targets difficulty in thinking critically and independently." Our current economic condition more than qualifies as a "threatening environment," when you take into account this is the worst financial recession since the great depression, we have a President that is heaping trillions of dollars in debt on a virtually bankrupt system, and an economy with millions of people out of work and thousands more losing their jobs every day with no end in sight.

In his study, Lifton defined three stages involved in brainwashing used by the captors, beginning with an "attack" on a prisoner's sense of self and ending with what appeared to be "a change in beliefs." Lifton defined the three stages as, "breaking down the self, the possibility of salvation," and "rebuilding the self." There are strong parallels between Lifton's stages and President Obama's incremental political strategies to, in his own words, "fundamentally change" America.

The "breaking down the self" stage is being fulfilled by President Obama, his administration, all his surrogates and the liberal media as they continue hammering the idea that people who oppose his policies are un-American, evil doers, racists, hate mongers, and anti-environment. This stage also involves trying to elicit guilt, shame and doubt from his opponents by intimating that their core beliefs are harmful to the country and the planet. Obama is even eliciting religion by saying that those who oppose his health care reform plans are "bearing false witness."

................


And the ending
As long as Americans stay focused on the true foundations of this great country and not its radical socialist leader, they will never be brainwashed -- and America will continue to be the "Shining city on a hill" President Ronald Reagan spoke of in his farewell address to the nation.

Source

How can we stop our brain from getting washed?

This has killed 6 million Jews during the Second World War. The virulent antisemitism was rooted in unchecked information pointing the Jews as the enemies, and their extermination was regarded as right. The brainwashing can go from visible signs like the swastika to more subtle ways, like bad jokes (you cannot imagine how much misogynism those jokes with blond women can trigger...). The best brainwashers are dictators, politicians, clericals, advertising agents, traders, journalists, radio and TV personalities, and others.

Source

Already more than a million Muslims have been killed, what do you suppose we do?

Suggestion Box
CIA Brainwashing Experiments



I want to collect some thoughts on how we can solve this problem, please don't hesitate to give us a hit of what you think the solution to this massive problem could/should be.

Thanks for your time

oozy

[edit on 4-10-2009 by oozyism]


reply posted on 4-10-2009 @ 07:23 AM by purehughness
Originally posted by oozyism
Originally posted by colec156
It's not just America my Friend.

Much of the so called modern world is being or has been brainwashed into accepting what is and what the govt tell you to believe.

When you start looking at the bigger picture you start to wonder about everything and anything that you have been told.

What you're told to hate, what you're told to like. Many people simply cannot think for themselves anymore.

Why can't we think for our selves? Does it have something to do with social issues? Or something else? Any solution to the problem would be appreciated.


[edit on 4-10-2009 by oozyism]


It's probably due to mass apathy. No-one really cares anymore, they just live inside their consumer bubble and only really look out for number one.
So they just turn on their huge televisions and swallow any sort of BS presented to them, usually by highly recognisable faces who suggest trustworthiness to the mass mind.

Selective media presentation (ie Propaganda) doesn't help either. When the media is essentailly government controlled, the mainstream outlets that the majority of people watch everyday consist only of what you are required to hear. There's no objectivity to it at all. No balance. When you're only being showed selective information, there's no way to form informed opinions, you're only repeating the party line..

It's a Ministry of Truth nightmare.

Thank the heavens for places like ATS, where free thought is actively encouraged..


reply posted on 4-10-2009 @ 07:41 AM by Copernicus
Originally posted by oozyism
Why can't we think for our selves? Does it have something to do with social issues? Or something else? Any solution to the problem would be appreciated.


We are used to pyramid structures since birth. Just think about it... the family constellation, school system, work system - everything is built on the same power structure. We are taught from the start to accept whatever comes down as the truth.

You dont get good grades in school by being difficult and questioning, just as you dont make a career if you challenge the top dogs. We get trained to be dependent and weak. We just memorize lots of stuff and get a pat on the back for it.

If you want to know something, you turn to someone else who is "credible". You are taught to see this as the deciding factor in who to listen to. In combination with scientific stigma, its very easy to control information. Disagree with your peers and you become a outcast, and your reputation takes a nose dive. So very few goes public with alternate information because they always get their reputation assassinated.

Also it helps to be in control of the media. That way you can claim to be objective by asking two people from different sides come in, decide which one you want the public to believe and bully the other guy senseless for the 5-7 minutes he is on the air.

Thats how its done, basically. Control peoples decision making by giving them a simple set of rules to follow when deciding who to believe and who must be crazy.

Also we are lazy. Its hard to think for oneself. Its much easier to just go along.


[edit on 4-10-2009 by Copernicus]


reply posted on 4-10-2009 @ 07:51 AM by Pinktip
www.youtube.com...

How to Brianwash a nation....by a former KGB agent....

Hosted by G.Edward Griffin (sound familiar?)

The Creature from Jekyll Island


reply posted on 4-10-2009 @ 08:02 AM by detachedindividual
reply to post by oozyism


I thought this was all already proven?

Just look at the military and the training systems they have in place. This consists of breaking down existing belief structures, removing identity, and then rebuilding a modelled identity in its place to allow for the direct following of any instructions issued by a recognised figure of leadership.

But, rest assured, if you are questioning this they haven't been successful on you. Clearly any person who questions their leadership and the motives of those in positions of power are more intelligent than those who simply believe and accept everything their leaders put in front of them.

But isn't this precisely why they are now adding such people to lists in America?
Look at any publicly known free-thinking person willing to question, and they are undoubtedly on a "list" held by government and labelled as "potential problems".
It would be very interesting to gather up a few people openly critical of government and get them all to try and cross a border point.
Naomi Wolf, Michael Moore, Gore Vidal...

But, just as this applies to known names, those who attend protests, are part of free-thinking groups demanding change, they're all on lists too. Go to any protest or even view footage of some on YT, and you'll see an army of intelligence with cameras taking snaps of car reg plates and protesters.
This data is then compiled to include names on lists of those who have an opposing view of leadership policies.

How it will all be used and when is another matter. I think it's simply designed to harass and silence people. But if a dictatorship gains power it could be used in a wholly different manner

My point of all this is to point out that if you are on a list, the chances are you are a free-thinker, a challenger of accepted government opinion, a "radical". They haven't managed to convince you that they are right, or they haven't managed to instil in you a complete sense of apathy.

Likewise, if you are openly a free-thinker, and question government on important aspects of leadership and policy, you are probably on such a list.

Meh, I hope I'm on a list too.


reply posted on 4-10-2009 @ 08:07 AM by purehughness
reply to post by Drexl


But maybe that sort of shake-up is exactly what people need?

I mean, in recent polls, I think it was 30% of Germans who believe that 9/11 was an inside job? That's a pretty huge figure really.

I'm not the sort of person who will stand on a soapbox yelling 'wake up! wake up!', but I firmly believe that people need to see things for what they really are, only then will we be able to demand from our governments (as we should be albe to already) a truly fair deal. If enough people can realise that things aren't as they seem, a shift in power may well be attainable.

Maybe I'm just a dreamer..
Pages:     ^^TOP^^



Fox News Drops The Ball On Its Focus Group - Ron Paul Supporters!
  Posted 12 days ago with 43 member flags
Obama Supporters...Remember This List When You Vote This Year.
  Posted 12 days ago with 35 member flags
26 Things Non-Paul Voters Are Basically Saying
  Posted 3 days ago with 27 member flags
What\'s With The Obama Love on ATS Today?
  Posted 14 days ago with 25 member flags
Obama and why he\'ll still be president...
  Posted 16 days ago with 24 member flags