In all sincerity, what brainwashing are you talking about? Science, math, history, home economics, art, music, sports? You might as well call 'murkan society the brainwashing. And what wo uld you replace it with? Religious dogma? Just ignorance?
My dad was a conservative republican. He was poor, white, worked very hard and long, fought in…
In all sincerity, what brainwashing are you talking about? Science, math, history, home economics, art, music, sports? You might as well call 'murkan society the brainwashing. And what wo uld you replace it with? Religious dogma? Just ignorance?
My dad was a conservative republican. He was poor, white, worked very hard and long, fought in WW2, had a high school education. He was president or secretary of the local school board for 20 years. He believed in education. He believed in the Constitution. He did not want to educate me about school, he led the school that did that, but did not dictate curriculum. My dad taught me many things, personal things, skilled things, logic, reason, critical thinking, so that I could excel in school and life. What you have just said is, IMO, ridiculous, anti-social, and fascistic.
FYI, My fathers family were poor white southerners, great great grandfather and his son were hog farmers. My mothers family poor white notherners who suffered the depression, and left the family traumatized.
I was raised a conservative and voted for Nixon in 1960, an Goldwater in 1968, but voted for Hillary and Biden.
A piece of advice don't take things personally, don't personalize the impersonal.
As regards brainwashing, that is how we are raised,family friends, authorities like teachers.
We are not born with out ideas and beliefs fully formed. We either acquire them by being told them by authority or we aquire them by fully thinking them through
My comment was meant for the guy who forgot to mention that his post was facetious. It sounded serious, so I called him on it. These threads kind of weave all over the place and it is hard to know where they end up sometimes.
In all sincerity, what brainwashing are you talking about? Science, math, history, home economics, art, music, sports? You might as well call 'murkan society the brainwashing. And what wo uld you replace it with? Religious dogma? Just ignorance?
My dad was a conservative republican. He was poor, white, worked very hard and long, fought in WW2, had a high school education. He was president or secretary of the local school board for 20 years. He believed in education. He believed in the Constitution. He did not want to educate me about school, he led the school that did that, but did not dictate curriculum. My dad taught me many things, personal things, skilled things, logic, reason, critical thinking, so that I could excel in school and life. What you have just said is, IMO, ridiculous, anti-social, and fascistic.
Mick I have no idea what you are talking about.
FYI, My fathers family were poor white southerners, great great grandfather and his son were hog farmers. My mothers family poor white notherners who suffered the depression, and left the family traumatized.
I was raised a conservative and voted for Nixon in 1960, an Goldwater in 1968, but voted for Hillary and Biden.
A piece of advice don't take things personally, don't personalize the impersonal.
As regards brainwashing, that is how we are raised,family friends, authorities like teachers.
We are not born with out ideas and beliefs fully formed. We either acquire them by being told them by authority or we aquire them by fully thinking them through
My comment was meant for the guy who forgot to mention that his post was facetious. It sounded serious, so I called him on it. These threads kind of weave all over the place and it is hard to know where they end up sometimes.