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Mainstream media bombardment and constant advertising harassment do a pretty good job of mind control, though. Also, culture is the best mind control. Raise pe

by zanny 13y ago

Mainstream media bombardment and constant advertising harassment do a pretty good job of mind control, though. Also, culture is the best mind control. Raise people with a mind set the way you want it and you never have to do anything directly, because they already are siding with you even through cognative dissonance.

baddox 13y ago
Public schools are far more significant than the media.
- a3n 13y ago
  You could be right. Or it could be the exact opposite. Or something else. It doesn't matter. Fundamentally we do it to ourselves, because we're herd/pack/social animals. We shun anyone too different from the tribe, it's in our DNA. Because of that, we are highly evolved to fit in. Yeah, we're self aware and all that, we have choices, but what we generally choose to do is identify with some group and hate opposing groups. It's what we do. The chimpanzees are laughing at us.
  - 001sky 13y ago
    In England and Wales, truancy is a criminal offence for parents.[6] Since 1998, a police officer of or above the rank of superintendent may direct that for a specified time in a specified area a police officer may remove a child believed to be absent from a school without authority to that school or to another designated place....
    - mmavnn 13y ago
      It's not that widely known, but you can remove your child from state education as a parent and teach them yourself. You just have to tell the local authority you're doing so in writing.
  - ldfkcvbm456 13y ago
    >herd/pack/social animals I can already tell you have no idea about what you are talking about because you cant figure out the word to use here. Stupid pop-sci reading pinkerian evo psych pseudo-wisdom lesswrong.com idiot. Who's "we"? I bet that just pissed you off, keep projecting how much of a inferior you are. >generalizing everything as a "tribe" You do know those evo psych idiots use the term "genetics" and not "DNA" right? Now you really don't know what you are talking about. >highly evolved to fit in I swear schools should just stick to bible class instead of evolution class if they cant even teach it properly.

by zanny 13y ago

baddox 13y ago

Public schools are far more significant than the media.

a3n 13y ago
You could be right. Or it could be the exact opposite. Or something else. It doesn't matter. Fundamentally we do it to ourselves, because we're herd/pack/social animals. We shun anyone too different from the tribe, it's in our DNA. Because of that, we are highly evolved to fit in. Yeah, we're self aware and all that, we have choices, but what we generally choose to do is identify with some group and hate opposing groups. It's what we do. The chimpanzees are laughing at us.
- 001sky 13y ago
  In England and Wales, truancy is a criminal offence for parents.[6] Since 1998, a police officer of or above the rank of superintendent may direct that for a specified time in a specified area a police officer may remove a child believed to be absent from a school without authority to that school or to another designated place....
  - mmavnn 13y ago
    It's not that widely known, but you can remove your child from state education as a parent and teach them yourself. You just have to tell the local authority you're doing so in writing.
- ldfkcvbm456 13y ago
  >herd/pack/social animals I can already tell you have no idea about what you are talking about because you cant figure out the word to use here. Stupid pop-sci reading pinkerian evo psych pseudo-wisdom lesswrong.com idiot. Who's "we"? I bet that just pissed you off, keep projecting how much of a inferior you are. >generalizing everything as a "tribe" You do know those evo psych idiots use the term "genetics" and not "DNA" right? Now you really don't know what you are talking about. >highly evolved to fit in I swear schools should just stick to bible class instead of evolution class if they cant even teach it properly.