???@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?message-squaremessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up144arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen????@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square69fedilinkfile-text
…whether it was by a cult, by propaganda, by an algorithm, etc… And did the person ever recover from it?
minus-squarePrimeErective@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·4 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-squareundergroundoverground@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agoAnd it ain’t what it ain’t.
minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThis is one of the few acceptable ones IMO. Sometimes, something is bullshit, you know it’s bullshit, everyone else knows it’s bullshit, but you have no ability to fix or avoid said bullshit, so… it is what 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
Its all good, man
It Is What It Is
Ok Yogi
And it ain’t what it ain’t.
This is one of the few acceptable ones IMO. Sometimes, something is bullshit, you know it’s bullshit, everyone else knows it’s bullshit, but you have no ability to fix or avoid said bullshit, so… it is what it is.