👁🗨It is actually easier to un-brainwash people than it is to brainwash them... let me explain...
The short answer is the neurological pathways to Truth... actual unadulterated Truth... was programmed into each of us genetically... default mode network...
Think, "I just knew he was telling the truth"... the intuitive "gut instinct" resonated as truth to your soul... you intuitively "know" what truth "feels" like...
All that said, the method to manipulate billions of people took generations... so think about you, your parents and their parents (at least that far back, if not further) were lied to in the same way... what we "knew" as truth... wasn't truthful at all... layers and layers of lies upon lies...
[They] infiltrated every possible channel of communication, television, news, movies, music, social media, everything...
They started pumping in THEMES of manipulation... slowly nudging the people inch by inch... each new phase of manipulation pushed moral boundaries a little further...
Soon, seeing videos of teenage girls slamming a classmates head to the ground killing her seems relatively normal... think Grand Theft Auto video games and the violence that desensitized millions to...
If 30-50 years ago they told your grandparents men will join women's sports, kids are switching genders, and 10's of millions of illegals would be flooding the border unfettered they would have called them a "conspiracy theorist"... or just plain crazy... The nudges away from truth have to be slow and methodical as to control the degree of cognitive dissonance... if I tell you blue is actually red you'll know I was lying as the lie is so obvious... but if over the years I showed you study after study of scientists saying blue was never actually a color I could slowly convince you...
But the path back to truth is different... the speed back to truth depends on the resilience of the emotional strength each person has -- in other words... how fast they are able to learn they have been lied too without having an emotional breakdown...
You can see that over the last 7 years the White Hats have been slowly releases Truths... it started with The Twitter Files as the first level of DECLAS... it was fun... people waited for each post to land so they could share it... it was all the rage...
Some won't be able to see right away but the seeds are planted, then wave after wave the the seeds are nurtured with more truth and more seeds are planted...layer by layer the truth is expanded upon until epiphanies occur, realizations... higher states of consciousness occur... That is the Great Awakening
Not sure how I feel about this. Definitely interesting topic to think and reflect on though. Would love to hear all your thoughts
Credit to: u/holonabove
How difficult it is for someone to hear a Truth depends to a large degree on how PAINFUL that Truth is to the individual in question.
That is why, for example, child sex slavery, child sacrifice, and other maximum horrors are still too much for most people. The Truth in that case is making inroads, but it's a slow process because EVERYONE (other than psychopaths and some sociopaths) has a powerful aversion to the idea of such horrific treatment of children.
For lesser evils, a lot depends on how strongly a person's psychological defense system is bound up with the issue: is the Democrat Party a stand-in for a bulwark against evil in a persons mind? That was OFTEN true in the 60s and 70s, for instance (speaking as a refugee from that time myself, although I was never a Democrat). Republicans were cold, heartless, etc. and the Democrats were the party of Compassion.
Total BS, of course, but the Dems did a great job of convincing millions of people that it was true.
Yes I agree it's different with each person. I think the writer is more talking about the constant force needed to brainwash someone is more constant then the force required to un brainwash. It took them a long time to get society to this point. Slowly and constantly controlling. Where as people have begun being un brainwashed within the last couple years from truth simply being share. Imagine if we had the same constant force at play as they did. People would be un wound pretty quick.
At least this is how I read it. Again still reflecting on the thought. Kinda bouncing back and forth on how I feel about things.
I agree completely with that; I'm just pointing out that -- as we know -- different people have different speeds at which they can accept the truth, and for that matter each of us has particular areas where we are more resistant to ACCEPTING the truth. People on this board tend to be more willing to look at new perspectives and to change paradigms than the general public.
Yes very true. Funny you say this because I was just talking with a fren about this exact thing.
I'll stick with Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). I paraphrase, "It is far easier to fool a man than it is to convince him that he has been fooled."
Yes I agree. Fooling someone is not the same as brainwashing though. I think the point he is trying to make is that to brainwash requires constant mental attacks where as un brainwashing can happen from simply learning truth and the process begins.
I missed that. Thanks Sounds reasonable too.