yeah maybe so. don't notice it so much myself, but then I have a reading program that pretty much prevents any of the blinking lights from getting in.
am thinking that there are contextual necessities if brainwashing is to work.
namely, a serious lack of general knowledge. Currently am reading a history of the holy roman empire, which allows one to assess many current happenings among the elite in terms of what they were up to from the middle ages up to the end of the Hapsburg dynasty.
I don't believe shit unless/until I am understand it in the context of history (or philosophy and preferrably in light of both).
If you don't know where you came from, how the fuck can you know where you are? Google maps sure as fuck isnt going to tell you.