Six brainwashing techniques They're using on you right now

[Tiigon]

Method 4. Telecoms Package.

Anyway, I'm lucky to have not been brainwashed by the media yet.

 

[Bill3000]

Method 4. Telecoms Package.

Anyway, I'm lucky to have not been brainwashed by the media yet.

There's media in Finland now?

 

[GoodGame]

Great article. I've been guilty of every one of those techniques, and most of the people here have too.

To be honest, I've never seen your man-boobs RRW!

 

[Masada]

What's number one...Safety!

That's a brilliant legal move.

 

[GoodGame]

That's a brilliant legal move.

I think it's actually to calm them down from their Walmart fervor. Just so they don't start sacrificing themselves for the cause.

 

[Masada]

i think it's actually to calm them down from their walmart fervor. Just so they don't start sacrificing themselves for the cause.

all glory to ze wallmart *spittle flying!*

 

[holy king]

to be honest one of the worse cracked articles.
nothing new or substantial (or exotic enough to be new and interesting to a good part of the audience) and that not even presented very funny...

at least it had titties.

 

[Zulu Impi]

Interesting article I don't think education solves the problems though as generally the educated just make they're own group.

Definitely used most of those techniques before and several are much used here.

 

[Sharwood]

Read this article yesterday. Didn't really tell me anything new, but is still very interesting. I see all of these tactics myself all the time. I'll use them in debates, but that's just to win, not because I genuinely believe them. Not my fault if my opponents are idiots and can't see throught them.

There are always going to be things you simply can't combat because you don't know they're there. But everyone with a working brain should be able to combat these six. If I didn't know how to combat them, I'd probably be a goddamn preacher by now.

And good God, I never realised Salma Hayek's rack was that fantastic until I saw that photo. I knew it was nice, but goddamn.

 

[Cutlass]

You know, every once in a while, I go look at foxnews.com. They have a tremendous number of boobies. While I love boobies, isn't it, well, completely unrelated to actual news? And for the record, CNN has boobies too, but only as part of their Sports Illustrated coverage. And for CNN, it's not every day. For Fox, it's every day.

Well, to be fair, the primary qualificaton for a tv "journalism" career these days is if someone can hold their own as a spokesmodel, not as a journalist. And that's everywhere in the US.

 

[Phlegmak]

Well, to be fair, the primary qualificaton for a tv "journalism" career these days is if someone can hold their own as a spokesmodel, not as a journalist. And that's everywhere in the US.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

http://www.foxnews.com/

Scroll down to Features & Faces. Plenty o' boobs there. That's what I was referring to. And that's not the only place to find boobs on Fox "News".

 

[LucyDuke]

I felt very dirty at first in my Model OAS class, writing my resolution in such a way as to mask its true intentions, and filling my arguments with weasel words to deflect people's criticisms and such.

That's why I'm not in advertising.

The results of teached critical thinking that I've seen have been mostly previous dogmas replaced by the new ones. People who think critically do for big part that by nature, but even more it comes with practice: thinking.

I think people can be taught to question authority. That undermines dogma.

Give me a W...W!
Give me an A...A!
Give me a L...L!
Give me a squiggly...squiggly! (meant to represent the '-' in the Wal-mart name, at this point the more enthusiastic goofballs in the group will shake their hips, but most sane people will just half-heartedly raise their hands to fake some enthusiasm).
Give me a M...M!
Give me an A...A!
Give me a R...R!
Give me a T...T!
What's that spell...Wal-mart!
I can't hear you...Wal-mart!
What's number one...Safety!
Who's wal-mart is it...My wal-mart!

I think that that by itself would prevent me from ever working at Walmart.

 

[Berzerker]

Yes, our brain rewards us for being closed-minded dicks.

"Say it with me now, folks!"

"FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!"

"One, two, three, four, I, Love, The Marine, Corps. One, two..."

Why It Works:
The "Analytical" part of your brain and the "Repetitive Task" part tend to operate in separate rooms. But you didn't need an expert to tell you that. You know you can't solve a complex logic puzzle if I force you to scream the chorus to that Chumbawamba song over and over again while you're doing it. Try it.

There's an evolutionary component to that, scaring the bejesus out of the enemy tribe by showing unity of purpose, like the football team touching hands in the middle with a big shout before storming the battlefield.

Why It Works:
Because we evolved from creatures who were always in danger of being eaten, our brains were built on a very simple foundation: the "fight or flight" mechanism. This let us make lightning-fast decisions by boiling every situation into two options. Anyone who preferred to stop and mull over the subtleties of the scenario wound up in the digestive system of a saber-tooth tiger.

This article helps explain the evolutionary origin of racism too

 

[Brighteye]

There's an evolutionary component to that, scaring the bejesus out of the enemy tribe by showing unity of purpose, like the football team touching hands in the middle with a big shout before storming the battlefield.

I never understood that. It makes no sense at all. When I've been in group huddles I've just felt queasy from breathing everyone's stale breath and sweat.
Surely group purpose is better demonstrated by purposeful, efficient deployment to starting positions?

 

[Ayatollah So]

If High school had some sort of mandatory focus in its curriculum on critical thinking that would be a good start.

I can already hear the screams from those who worry about the various test scores that will take a hit because you want to take precious time away for actual learning. And, as long as No Child is Left a Dime (link for non-Americans who haven't heard of this), they've got a point, because if you don't make the cut on test scores your whole curriculum takes a financial hit.

Then critical thought becomes the thing that needs to be drilled into the good little worker drones and into the ones who require good test scores. Teaching to the test has some seriously perverse incentives.

Another hazard, there.

Not going to work. To do that you would need to overturn the whole intellectual fabric of education.

Um ... YES? Let's.

 

[Shadylookin]

Because it is impossible to defend onself from these types of manipulations, I have taught myself to become more defiant and non-comformist. I tend to embrace ideas ridiculed by the majority, and subconsciously start to dislike ideas embraced by the majority.

but aren't you just brainwashing yourself into the minority?

Reminds me of

Why can't you just be a nonconformist like everyone else

 

[Masada]

I can already hear the screams from those who worry about the various test scores that will take a hit because you want to take precious time away for actual learning. And, as long as No Child is Left a Dime (link for non-Americans who haven't heard of this), they've got a point, because if you don't make the cut on test scores your whole curriculum takes a financial hit.

No accounting for people who think tests at school are/were important. It's not linked to intelligence, its linked to the ability to write what the markers/teachers want in the time they want without the need for critical thinking or thinking in general. If you can memorize pre-constructed essays your set for life and points/techniques your set.

Another hazard, there.

Yep.

Um ... YES? Let's.

I'll get the crowbar.

 

[Bamspeedy]

I think that that by itself would prevent me from ever working at Walmart.

Oh, I know you would never work there even without that cheer.

The cheer is nothing compared to what the managers have to do. The managers are gluttons for acting like fools.

 

[Ayatollah So]

but aren't you [Defiant47] just brainwashing yourself into the minority?

Sometimes it's better to be battered by two blind, unreasoning, but generally mutually opposed forces, than just one.

Back to the OP: what really worries me about some of these tactics is that I'm using them on myself. Like "us vs. them", and the echo chamber media consumption trick.

 

[mrt144]

Features and Faces says it all...Fox Nudes is a farce.