The most common sign somebody’s been brainwashed is the unshakable belief that everybody ‘else’ has been brainwashed. And this isn’t as crazy as it seems. It’s logical. You see, when you brainwash someone, you basically indoctrinate them into believing something ridiculous, like you are the reincarnation of Jesus or whatever. The person brainwashing you knows that everyone is going to tell you that’s crazy, and that you will face a barrage of scientific, common-sensical, and rational evidence against that. When you brainwash someone, you basically indoctrinate them into believing something ridiculous, like you are the reincarnation of Jesus or whatever. The person brainwashing you knows that everyone is going to tell you that’s crazy, and that you will face a barrage of scientific, common-sensical, and rational evidence against that. Therefore, the brainwasher has to account for this, and the most common way to do it is to When someone brainwashes you, they basically indoctrinate you into believing something ridiculous like you are the reincarnation of Jesus or whatever, and this person knows that you will face a barrage of scientific, common-sensical, and rational evidence against that from every person you meet. What’s the solution? They convince you that the reason nobody else can see this great truth that you are the reincarnation of Jesus, is because they’ve all been brainwashed.
You may believe that nobody could be stupid enough to fall for this trick, but millions of Americans have fallen for a variant of it. Imagine you are a politician who persistently tells your voters absolute nonsense, lies, and fantasy, then you need to explain to them why everyone on the news is saying that it’s all nonsense, lies and fantasy. What’s the solution? You tell them It’s all fake news. Another variant is used by the moonies, who tell their followers that everyone else in society is being controlled by Satan so, everything they say, every counter-argument they give against the Mooney philosophy, is basically Satan.. So, to repeat my answer to this week’s question: the most surefire way of telling if someone has been brainwashed is that they believe everyone ‘else’ has been brainwashed. This is how the victims of brainwashing defy their own better instincts the advice of friends, the knowledge of experts and the clarity of common sense, to believe a complete pile of nonsense. It’s not ‘me’ that’s being brainwashed, it’s everybody else.
