‘I am being Brain Washed’

I sometimes wonder whether I know anything at all,I mean about the fundamental daily activities.

Tooth brush Manufacturers  tell me that my brushing practice is not correct.

Tooth paste manufacturer’s advise me that I should have salt in my tooth paste.

( It is a different issue that the same manufacturers told me some time back that Salt in tooth paste was harmful to teeth.)

I am scared of walking on the road lest some white coated gentleman would accost me with a gadget like a Pen Torch and take me to a weird apparatus to check ‘Germ Build Up’

Another Doctor(All white coated men are Doctors) tell  me that if I eat, food particles would enter between teeth and I will get cavity.

I never knew that washing hands would be such a serious affair!

If I use Dettol or something similar to wash my hands, it would take an inordinate time of O>>>>ne Minute and I am advised to use new Lifebuoy.

I am surprised at a visiting Doctor carrying Lifebuoy with him and dropping it the patient’s house!

I thought I was taking bath in a proper way until I came across ads saying that I should use a particular soap in a particular way.

I was unaware that a soap can prevent Ten infections!

I never knew that washing Face was such a complex affair.

It had to bleach, moisturize and improve skin tone.

If I want to go out, I need to have my face fully covered or should apply a cream.

I was taught that borrowing is a sin and Hocking a crime.

Now if I don’t have a Credit Card or do not hock my jewels I am a misfit.

If my child gets wet, it will lead to life threatening disease.

I did not know that children grow taller, stronger and sharper by using a Food Drink.

Nor a food drink increases your Stamina by three times.

I am surprised that you need an absorbent to absorb Milk.

How do I escape from this Brain washing day in Day out?

Read On:

While it’s pretty unlikely that you’re a target of deliberate brainwashing, it is likely that you’re subject to some of the common techniques associated with the less-than-ethical practice. Here are a few common methods you encounter on a regular basis and what you can do to avoid them.

First things first, what is brainwashing exactly? Wikipedia offers a concise definition:

Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual “systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated”.

Basically, it’s a form of extreme manipulation. We often associate the practice with cults and don’t consider its presence in everyday life, yet the techniques used in brainwashing are frequently leveraged by advertisers, news networks, politicians, and others. Alex Long, writing for hacking blog Null Byte, provides an outline of some of the most common brainwashing techniques. Here are the most notable:

• The manipulator offers you a number of choices, but the choices all lead to the same conclusion.
• The same idea or phrase is frequently repeated to make sure it sticks in your brain.
• Intense intelligence-dampening is performed by providing you with constant short snippets of information on various subjects. This trains you to have a short memory, makes the amount of information feel overwhelming, and the answers provided by the manipulator to be highly desired due to how overwhelmed you feel.
• Emotional manipulation is used to put you in a heightened state, as this makes it harder for you to employ logic. Inducing fear and anger are among the most popular manipulated emotions.
• When reading this list, you’re likely able to think of a few examples of these techniques. News channels and political parties often repeat a consistent message when they want to get their point across. Short snippets of information is also a common tactic on news networks. Advertisers love to offer choices that all lead to their product, and emotional manipulation is common in people you’ll encounter as well as in most forms of media—even seemingly (and sometimes actually) harmless mediums like film. These techniques are everywhere. They aren’t turning you into a zombie, but they are informing many of your choices. The good news is that you can avoid them if you’re proactive.

  How to Avoid Brainwashing Techniques

  

  Avoiding brainwashing techniques often involves avoiding the brainwashers themselves, but this is next to impossible. Taking advertising as an example, you can’t avoid them all and attempting to do so can be rather expensive if you still want to watch television and movies. Your best bet is to cut out what you can and, when you can’t, seek balance. Finding balance is often easiest by simply providing yourself with the information you need. All you need to do is the following:

   

  1. Identify the manipulative message you’ve received.
  2. Find an opposing message, whether it’s manipulative or not. Also attempt to find the most neutral and unbiased account of that same message.
  3. Compare your different sources and decide how you feel.

  Brainwashing, whether mild or extreme, is possible in a large part due to isolation. If you only hear the brainwashed message on a regular basis, and rarely (or never) expose yourself to alternatives, you’re going to be far more likely to accept what you hear without thinking. If you want to avoid the brainwashing techniques discussed in this post, your best bet is to surround yourself with a spectrum of information rather than simply settling for the message that makes you feel comfortable. After all, that’s often what the message is aiming to do.

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