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Re:How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales... by samineru on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @10:19PM (#6409394)
It's mental violence. You're exploiting human nature to impact their free will. Perhaps part of "being an adult" is shouldering the responsibility of propping up your own illusory free will, I can't say.
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Re:How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales... by contravert on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @11:17PM (#6409584)
For this reason, I try to avoid ads and marketing as much as possible, although it seems almost impossible. Although any individual advertisement is trivial to dismiss, I don't trust myself to resist the ubiquitity of these messages.
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Re:How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales... by 001sky on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @10:22PM (#6409405)
So is blind indocrination to "obey" (or be drugged) in grade school?
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Re:How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales... by mikegagnon on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @10:17PM (#6486727)
Perhaps http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-...
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