"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."Hate to break this to you, but you are brainwashed; or, at the very least, have been subjected to brainwashing all your life. It’s unfortunate, and you can deny it all you want, but you have. So have your parents, your grand-parents, and their parents, and their parents before that. So have your wife and your children. So will your children’s children and their children too. Your entire family and everyone you know have been subjected to brainwashing; some have been consumed by it; some will never get over it. It is most unfortunate that there’s not a thing you can do or say that will make things any different. The people who will get the most angry and defensive about this; the people who will argue with this the most incessantly are the most brainwashed of all.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch 22
From the day a child gets old enough to understand, the brainwashing commences. Believe it or not, I’d even have to say that the brainwashing begins from the day a baby can recognize colors and objects; from the day a baby can start to understand the relationship between signs, gestures, and their meanings, is the day the brainwashing begins. And it doesn’t matter when or whether that child was born and raised in the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Nazi Germany, or the United States; if the home and area they are raised in has any sort of government or even one iota of jingoism or patriotism, you can bet that that child will grow up with a biased view on the world. You can be sure that the brainwashing has distorted that child’s thinking. You can also be sure that the child probably will grow up with an unwavering belief that his country is the best – and will get angry or defensive if challenged about it; you can bet that child will grow up being considered a dumb-bird and ill-educated by the very few who aren’t brainwashed; and you can bet your bottom dollar that that child will grow up being a believer that his country could do no wrong, no matter what the circumstances or the facts say.
It is most unfortunate that many Americans, for the most part, will get all riled up and huffy about what I have written here but, from what I’ve seen, Americans are probably the most brainwashed basketcases in the world today. It’s really a shame that a people who believe that they are the number one and the world’s only superpower, are in fact probably the most brainwashed people on the face of the earth today.
The few who realize that what I have written here is fact, will not dispute this for a moment – they are the ones who have seen the enemy. The really smart ones or the lucky few will try to save themselves, or their kids, by getting an education outside of their country. If they do this, then they have a fighting chance to save themselves. They'll most likely also have to learn and deeply understand a foreign language and culture before they can recognize the brainwashing. The wisest among us become wise due to years of consideration, contemplation and experience; those are the people who will see immediately that what is written here is as plain as day.
I've met and corresponded with people whom, I reckon, will never figure it out. They are, regrettably, the dumbest birds of them all.
"The only one to argue with a fool is a bigger fool."
~ Confucius (551 BC–479 BC) – The Analects of Confucius
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