What if people are so easily brainwashed by the media because they have no internal monologue with which to think for themselves?
A true story about a client of mine.
A while back there were a few posts about the discovery that there are people who have zero internal monologue. That means they never, ever think about things on their own.
I was floored when I read this and was recently talking with one of my personal training clients about it. She is very liberal and often over the year I've trained her, conversations about politics look a lot like this:
Me: how's the weather etc
Her: omg I can't believe that xyz happened (quotes headlines nearly word for word)
Like no joke, she sounds like she just regurgitates every headline, no matter how obviously hyperbolic it is.
Anyway, while making small talk I told her I had recently read about people that essentially don't think, at least not consciously.
She said, oh I am like that, I found out I was different that way.
Me: What? Wow. Ok so when you're driving here with no music on, what goes through your head?
Her: Nothing really. Sometimes I'll have flashes of a memory or something.
Me: so how do you work out solutions to problems in your head?
Her: what problems? What do you mean?
I then just changed the subject because it was clear by our little talk she literally never thinks for herself, or thinks abstractly, or works anything out in her head.
A real life NPC. And this explains in a big way why people are so easily brainwashed by the media. They question absolutely nothing, because they are incapable of doing so.
Mind blown.