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Old 02-26-2025, 02:25 AM   #866 (permalink)
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What do people pledge their allegiance to? In almost every case, what they've been brainwashed to. Brainwashing is absolutely crucial to all functioning societies.
What you are referencing is social normalization:
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Normalization
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Normalization refers to social processes through which ideas and actions come to be seen as 'normal' and become taken-for-granted or 'natural' in everyday life. There are different behavioral attitudes that humans accept as normal, such as grief for a loved one's suffering or death, avoiding danger, and not participating in cannibalism. Wikipedia
Brainwashing is the subversion of the normalized individual.
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Brainwashing is the controversial idea that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques. Wikipedia
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