???@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen?message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most severe case of brainwashing you have seen????@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square104fedilinkfile-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-up0·1 month agoI learned recently that there’s a word for this, which is “thought-terminating cliche” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
minus-squareundergroundoverground@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoAnd it ain’t what it ain’t.
minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThis 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.
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
Fuckin way she goes.
Ok Yogi
And it ain’t what it ain’t.
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.