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> Won't they just figure that's part of the conspiracy to re-educate them? I mean, it would literally be re-education.

• paulryanrogers 6y ago
  Re-education is a tainted word, sadly. If someone is indoctrinated and fed only lies and half truths then the only real solution is to be educated on truth. Learning from the work of others is easiest, but doing ones own experiments is certainly possible.
  • generalizations 6y ago
    > the only real solution is to be educated on truth The key part of re-education that's so distasteful is when someone else decides what truth is, and makes others learn it.
    • paulryanrogers 6y ago
      I don't mean to condone trying to force people to change their minds. Just trying to point out the negative association is unfortunate. Everyone works from whatever information they have, past experience, natural tendencies, etc. And people _can_ break out of an poorly-informed viewpoint. (I grew up in one for many years.) But the process must be cooperative or internally motivated. BTW, it's interesting how misinformation can overwhelm proven information. Much like spam and bot activity accounts for email and Internet traffic it's easy to lose the signal among the noise. We're all trying to adapt to find the signal. (At least those of us who aren't intentionally producing noise.)