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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
but you did. I chose to read very fast, and your post, because of the contrasting colors made me read slower. My will? to read fast.
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Sorry to quibble about semantics but when reading your response my will was to read your words
instantly. Unfortunately I just don't read that fast. Just because I want something and don't get it doesn't mean that my will has been subjugated.
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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
Mind control maybe over compassing, but it's still what it is, which is manipulation.
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I remain a skeptic to this belief. Manipulation does not mean subjugation.
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IMO you are spending much too much energy on the semantics of the word mind control and not the spirit of what this thread is about which is media being used to manipulate people.
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Perhaps, but this brings me to my other point on the spirit of this thread:
It is condescending and insulting to tell people that the reason that they believe something or another is because they are brainwashed. It's too convenient to write off someone's opinion as being unduly influenced by some exterior physical factor (i.e. "mind control") rather than address their ideas as people capable of making their own choices.
More than once I was told that I was brainwashed by people of varying political persuasions. The source of the brainwashing is almost always "the media". It's a cop out because it doesn't address my opinion but rather undermines it; as an
ad hominem fallacy. And believe me, it's not like I was having a discussion on which is better -coke or pepsi. These were real issues like wars and rumours of wars.
So to condemn the whole of society as Mind Controlled seems not only far fetched -but kinda insulting.
Ah fuck em, they're brainwashed -j/k j/k