Thought Process And Manipulation

How easily do you think people can be manipulated?

I would say that just about every human brain initially starts out the same and as input begins it changes to adapt to its environment. Influence by family, friends, media start the programming of a brain, like a super computer with arms and legs along with our ability to analyze and reason we also program our brain with our own thoughts and actions. Where do you get your information from? How do we know it is a reliable source?

 

You mean on a mass scale, or individually?

On a mass scale, it's easy to manipulate people when you control what they know from the time they are born. A child's parents are born into this system where they are immediately indoctrinated, so therefore the same holds true for generations that follow. Usually the first indoctrinators are the parents themselves, before public education and the system at large take over from there. It is very easily done, and the people who do the manipulating have it down to a science, The more people distance themselves from others, the television, radio, etc.. the more they begin to think for themselves. I think almost everyone is born with the ability to think for themselves and be sentient individuals if they so choose. Most people never give themselves time to think, though, because the system keeps people always busy and obsessed with trivial things which don't matter.

 

And so a person pretty much gets their core structure of the brain from their parents. The question is? Does the television have enough power to change our way of thinking? Distorting it to the point where we don't know we have been manipulated and would bet our lives on it. Yes, I do believe it is that good. Human nature is predictable.

 

[quote name="Pressed_Rat" post="7616700" timestamp="1408996860"Most people never give themselves time to think, though, because the system keeps people always busy and obsessed with trivial things which don't matter.[/quote]



Yes. Too busy, information overload

 

I think the hardest part about being a parent who doesn't want their children to believe just anything- and to think for themselves- is also trying not to have your children stand out as totally different than everyone else or have any negative attention brought to them. Finding that good balance...

I'd say a LARGE proportion of manipulation is very, very subtle.