What are some modern examples of "brainwashing"?
Brainwashing or mind control takes place around us everyday but for most of the time we don't recognize that we are being controlled.
Let's look at education as the main source of mind control.
The government mandates, in most countries, that a child must spend 8 to 9 years in a government controlled school system where they determine the curriculum and teaching material. In most cases now, the curriculum has been “dumbed” down so that the government has more control over the population.
Another method of mind control is sports.
Sports uses the divide and conquer technique: short circuit the natural tendency of people to cooperate for their survival, and teach them to form teams bent on domination and winning. Sports has always had a role as a key distraction that corrals tribal tendencies into a non-important event.
A new method being looked at is “flicker rate”. Every light, computer and television flicker at a specific frequency. Flicker rate tests show that alpha brain waves are altered, producing a type of hypnosis — which doesn’t portend well for the latest revelation that lights can transmit coded Internet data by “flickering faster than the eye can see.”
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