???@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 年前What is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?message-squaremessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up198arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen????@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 年前message-square111fedilinkfile-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-up46·1 年前I learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 年前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.
minus-squarenomous@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前And now you’re going to notice them all over the internet.
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
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.
Fuckin way she goes.
And it ain’t what it ain’t.
Ok Yogi
And now you’re going to notice them all over the internet.