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How could I have hated the pubic education system? I attended those schools for 12 years, then went to a public supported university for 6 years and then taught in public schools for 28 years...
I see you're trying to clarify that you don't, considering you started with this...
"I guess you couldn't possibly be one of those who got the mass brainwash in public school."
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I will admit that I did teach kids about Communism all those years and I also taught them about the weaknesses of it and the reasons it could never work as they are told by those who have been brainwashed...
How could I have hated the pubic education system? I attended those schools for 12 years, then went to a public supported university for 6 years and then taught in public schools for 28 years. I will admit that I did teach kids about Communism all those years and I also taught them about the weaknesses of it and the reasons it could never work as they are told by those who have been brainwashed. I will bet you that not one of my ex-students is taken in by all this crap because they knew what it is all about. Even the girls who weren't interested in politics knew what was going on.
Yeah, I hated public education, as long as I was taking part. My wife is still in it after 38 years and will go two more and she says there is a whole lot of difference in the whole thing now as compared to the early 70s when she started.
Society is based on a certain level of ideological manipulation and in America it is predicated on sustaining the current hierarchy while distracting the larger poorer populations with nonsense distractions. That's not brainwashing, it's just discursive control, setting the limits on what people talk and think about.
Society is based on a certain level of ideological manipulation and in America it is predicated on sustaining the current hierarchy while distracting the larger poorer populations with nonsense distractions. That's not brainwashing, it's just discursive control, setting the limits on what people talk and think about.
I think the current extreme right (which this forum is a magnet for) within this country is proof that you can indoctrinate a segment of the population. Not sure I'd use the term "brainwashed" though.
I say it is very possible and that in the number of decades since the attempt was begun in this country it is very, very possible. This link is to a video that explains why I believe it has been and is still happening in the US. Of course, remember I am from the period right after WW II when brainwashing was being heavily experimented with by the Chicoms during the Korean War.
If the media ran news items for 6 months saying Mickey Mouse was really a rat not a mouse. If a poll was takem after that 6 month period, I'll bet the majority if asked, would said he was a rat.
Brainwashed much like I've noticed that a certain poster now uses the term "progressives" instead of "liberals"... happened around the same time a host of a certain show on Fox started doing the same thing...
Interesting stuff!
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