Corollary: sales techniques are often a form of brainwashing. I mean this seriously.
How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
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Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#12If an American POW comes back to the US and says the US was the aggressor in the Korean War, he does not have an opinion, he has been "brainwashed". What kind of mental gymnastics do I have to perform to think this way. It's about a step removed from saying someone who denies Jesus Is Lord has been possessed by a demon. Or the same thing really.
> What kind of mental gymnastics do I have to perform to think this way.
They probably used the foot-in-the-door technique on themselves.
Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#13Brainwashed? If that is brainwashing, then it seems like there's brainwashing everywhere you look. For example:
- http://www.foxnews.com/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBbBfrKsVqY
Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#14I thought america WAS the aggressor? (Korea isn't really near the US), and it was quite apparent the US wanted satellite states near russia/china, to potentially launch further attacks. Also did the communists do a bad job in china? That is at most controversial... not "brain washed".
"Brainwashing" isn't a precisely defined word. I believe the word is often used to describe persuasion via psychological vulnerabilities. In this sense, the article is correct in calling the technique a form of brainwashing.
Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#15If an American POW comes back to the US and says the US was the aggressor in the Korean War, he does not have an opinion, he has been "brainwashed". What kind of mental gymnastics do I have to perform to think this way. It's about a step removed from saying someone who denies Jesus Is Lord has been possessed by a demon. Or the same thing really.
The key here is the delta, not what opinions are right or wrong.
> compared to the POWs in North Korea, their beliefs had changed massively since they’d left home
The title does color the outcome by calling it brainwashing, but that word is not used in the actual article.
Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#16I thought america WAS the aggressor? (Korea isn't really near the US), and it was quite apparent the US wanted satellite states near russia/china, to potentially launch further attacks. Also did the communists do a bad job in china? That is at most controversial... not "brain washed".
Let me give you a tl;dr: the North Koreans started it by rolling over into South Korea, McAuthur went too close to the Yalu in the counter attack, Chinese entered the war, Truman fires McAuthur. Stalement ensues, borders preserved, Kim Jong Un has ex-girlfriend executed.
The communists of the 50s were busy starving their own people in great leaps forwards, in the 60s they innovated on that with a cultural revolution; Mao finally dies; China didn't start to stabalize until Deng brought back capitalism.
Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#17I thought america WAS the aggressor? (Korea isn't really near the US), and it was quite apparent the US wanted satellite states near russia/china, to potentially launch further attacks. Also did the communists do a bad job in china? That is at most controversial... not "brain washed".
Let me give you a tl;dr: the North Koreans started it by rolling over into South Korea, McAuthur went too close to the Yalu in the counter attack, Chinese entered the war, Truman fires McAuthur. Stalement ensues, borders preserved, Kim Jong Un has ex-girlfriend executed. The communists of the 50s were busy starving their own people in great leaps forwards, in the 60s they innovated on that with a cultural revolution;…
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Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#18I thought america WAS the aggressor? (Korea isn't really near the US), and it was quite apparent the US wanted satellite states near russia/china, to potentially launch further attacks. Also did the communists do a bad job in china? That is at most controversial... not "brain washed".
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Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#19Brainwashed? If that is brainwashing, then it seems like there's brainwashing everywhere you look. For example: - http://www.foxnews.com/ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBbBfrKsVqY
Yes.
Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#20Corollary: sales techniques are often a form of brainwashing. I mean this seriously.
It's mental violence. You're exploiting human nature to impact their free will. Perhaps part of "being an adult" is shouldering the responsibility of propping up your own illusory free will, I can't say.