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dejb, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you haven't actually been exposed to any form of military training, have you? While you may feel this to be i
by run4yourlives 18y ago
dejb, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you haven't actually been exposed to any form of military training, have you?
While you may feel this to be irrelevant, I can assure you that you aren't quite able to grasp the nuances and evolved thinking behind this type of "performance under stress" training unless you have experienced it firsthand. Being an observer isn't good enough.
It's "brainwashing" only in as much as all other forms of teaching are brainwashing. Which is to say that it is not.
- dejb 18y ago> While you may feel this to be irrelevant I actually think it is quite relevant. If I'm right then you have been to some extent brainwashed into the thinking that the training is reasonable. Your response makes sense if you had been brainwashed or if you hadn't. Of course this doesn't prove anything either way. The point is that the proper identification of brainwashing is always going to come from an external observer. To me the process I have heard described of 'breaking someone down and then building them up again' is the definition of brainwashing.
- run4yourlives 18y agoYou make a valid point. I think where we differ is in our definition of what constitutes "brainwashing".