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What a nice of keeping the community stable and getting rid of the children on whom the brainwashing didn't take.

by Luc 13y ago

ars 13y ago
Presumably you are happy with the brainwashing you received? Or did you think your current culture is somehow special and the best one ever? It's utterly disgusting how people call everyone else's culture except their own "brainwashing". Religious? Brainwashed. Atheist? Brainwashed. Likes sports? Brainwashed. The only time you can legitimately call "brainwashing" is in a culture where there is one "master" person, and everyone else is utterly obedient to them.
- Luc 13y ago
  It's not brainwashing, that's true. Not for any of the reasons you mention though - I think I'll stick with the generally accepted definition rather than yours - but rather because children are an unwritten page. To wilfully distort their view on reality deserves a pejorative term, in any case. I guess it's being done by adults who are victims of the same process themselves.
  - ars 13y ago
    > To wilfully distort their view on reality And what exactly makes you think that your view on reality is the super best most correct and perfect one? From their point of view you are the one with a distorted view on reality and perhaps your children should be taken from you before you warp them. Do you really not see this? Or are you so stuck in your viewpoint that it's utterly impossible for you to imagine anyone having a different viewpoint?
    - Luc 13y ago
      You are attacking a straw man in these posts, attempting to paint a nasty picture of someone you know nothing about. I know what you are trying to say, and I am old enough to both have experience with people looking down on and attacking my culture, and to see young adults run away in fear because of idiotic notions instilled in them by their culture. I have seen how a lot of control over these kids is through misuse of the kids' trust in their elders. THEIR ability to see other viewpoints has been damaged beyond repair, for many of them for most of their life. And thus their culture is maintained. Anyway, enough of this.

What a nice of keeping the community stable and getting rid of the children on whom the brainwashing didn't take.

by Luc 13y ago

What a nice of keeping the community stable and getting rid of the children on whom the brainwashing didn't take.

ars 13y ago

Presumably you are happy with the brainwashing you received? Or did you think your current culture is somehow special and the best one ever? It's utterly disgusting how people call everyone else's culture except their own "brainwashing". Religious? Brainwashed. Atheist? Brainwashed. Likes sports? Brainwashed. The only time you can legitimately call "brainwashing" is in a culture where there is one "master" person, and everyone else is utterly obedient to them.

Luc 13y ago
It's not brainwashing, that's true. Not for any of the reasons you mention though - I think I'll stick with the generally accepted definition rather than yours - but rather because children are an unwritten page. To wilfully distort their view on reality deserves a pejorative term, in any case. I guess it's being done by adults who are victims of the same process themselves.
- ars 13y ago
  > To wilfully distort their view on reality And what exactly makes you think that your view on reality is the super best most correct and perfect one? From their point of view you are the one with a distorted view on reality and perhaps your children should be taken from you before you warp them. Do you really not see this? Or are you so stuck in your viewpoint that it's utterly impossible for you to imagine anyone having a different viewpoint?
  - Luc 13y ago
    You are attacking a straw man in these posts, attempting to paint a nasty picture of someone you know nothing about. I know what you are trying to say, and I am old enough to both have experience with people looking down on and attacking my culture, and to see young adults run away in fear because of idiotic notions instilled in them by their culture. I have seen how a lot of control over these kids is through misuse of the kids' trust in their elders. THEIR ability to see other viewpoints has been damaged beyond repair, for many of them for most of their life. And thus their culture is maintained. Anyway, enough of this.