> Children are not emotionally or intellectually prepared to repel this hostile takeover of their minds.
Neither are most adults. The current situation in the world is plenty of evidence for that.
Neither are most adults. The current situation in the world is plenty of evidence for that.
It applies to you dear reader, yes you, not u/baggachipz.. YOU.
I am also not immune, I believe myself to be, constantly. My worldview is truth and I am "open to other ideas"- yet I have very obviously anchored myself to things the first time I hear of them, despite actively making steps to try to see all angles and explain away facts with alternative theories. (which is exhausting) I definitely believe what someone wants me to believe.
It's plain, it's obvious, and yet it continually happens. It's only with a decade of distance that I even realise what had happened.
And people call me "balanced" and "intelligent", theoretically I have more tools to deal with this than the majority of the population.
Yet... I am not immune to propaganda.
Until someone takes the car off a cliff, of course, but that almost never happens.