???@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen????@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
…whether it was by a cult, by propaganda, by an algorithm, etc… And did the person ever recover from it?
minus-squareundergroundoverground@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months ago“Well, that’s just how it is” Person attempting to justify an injustice they also suffer, without even a thought about whether it being “how it is” might actually be connected to all the people saying dumb stuff like “Well, that’s just how it is.”
minus-squarePrimeErective@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
minus-squarefsxylo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI just respond “if that wasn’t how it is there’d be nothing to talk about.”
“Well, that’s just how it is”
Person attempting to justify an injustice they also suffer, without even a thought about whether it being “how it is” might actually be connected to all the people saying dumb stuff like “Well, that’s just how it is.”
I learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
I just respond “if that wasn’t how it is there’d be nothing to talk about.”