Tara Westover

I get up when I feel like getting up. That's the deal I've made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as my dog's bladder holds. The other half of that deal is that once the dog is walked, the very next thing I do is write. It's mechanical. It's programming, very nearly brainwashing.

American Historian

Jamie Hewlett

I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.

English Artist

Andrew Garfield

I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.

American Actor

Courtney Act

When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.

Australian Entertainer

Antony Beevor

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

British Historian

Tatyana Ali

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

American Actress

Tricky

School is about who you know, but I think it's a form of brainwashing. I learnt to read and write and that was enough.

English Musician

Madlib

My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.

American Musician

Jedediah Bila

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

American Entertainer

Sean Durkin

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

American Director

Brainwashing is often viewed negatively because it involves forced belief.

Negative Connotation

Brainwashing suggests total control over someone’s thoughts or beliefs.

Total Control

Brainwashing involves constant repetition of the same message.

Repeated Exposure

To brainwash is to manipulate someone's mind, often exploiting vulnerability.

Manipulative Action

Educating oneself and being critical can resist brainwashing efforts.

Resisting Brainwashing

Brainwashing usually involves a power imbalance between influencer and influenced.

Power Dynamics

 completely vulnerable to re-programming. But maybe brainwashing isn't always bad. Imagine a game that teaches us to respect each other, or helps us to understand the problems we're all facing in the real world. There is a potential to do good as well.

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