Brainwashing is real, it’s not just a pejorative term we use to describe someone else who can’t think for themselves. You’ve been brainwashed. I’ve been brainwashed. Only when it happens to us, we don’t call it “brainwashing.” We call it conditioning.
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Think of a time you changed your mind on an important topic. Let’s say vaccines. You likely weren’t brainwashed into changing your mind, as your friends and family may have told you. It was likely the process of changing your mind that took you out of the cycle of conditioning. So when your friends and family criticized you for being brainwashed into changing your mind, it was they who had yet to break free from the cycle.
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