2006-07-18 07:56:58 · 25 answers · asked by leedel20 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
anything can be used to brainwash if enough people are interested - he said it was 'with the masses you could rule the world'.
2006-07-18 07:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
thats what they are primarily used for acctually.They started off in the late 1950s as a way for russia to take control of human minds and place them in a vegetable like state of being, once the soap is over the mind is left scrammbled and all that can be made out is the dramatic images from the show so then begin to fill their lives with the same drama.It worked just as planed and now thousands if not millions of americans are being brainwashed into dramatic lives to busy to care about whats really important.
2006-07-18 08:02:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sas-n-Frass 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All mass media can be used as brainwashing tools, but it depends about what theory of communication you are talking about. Perhaps, soap operas can be used as a way for enterteining or even educate people. It all depends on tv producers, commercial interests, and how goverment uses it.
2006-07-18 08:02:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am one of the lamers you guys are talking about....you know...the soap junkie? I am so addicted that I tune in everyday. I try to schedule my life around it. If I happen to be out and miss them my mom fills me in because she records them. I also buy the soap digest magazines and belong to several online message boards. I can't help it....they just sucked me right in! I update my hubby every day when he gets home too. When he was working a night shift job he was just as addicted to them as me. Now that he's day light he misses them. When he and I were out during the day before the job switch we would go to the electronics department in the store so we could watch them and still get some errands done! Hahahahaha! Pathetic? Yes. But hey...it's just me. Take care and I hope you have an amazing day!
2006-07-18 08:04:37 · answer #4 · answered by silent.peace 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All TV is some kind of brainwashing. Just watch how different new items are presented. Look at the obsessed way people monitor what is going on in Hollywood . . .
2006-07-18 07:59:00 · answer #5 · answered by Sherrell 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe depends on how you look at them. I know my mother- in law learned how to speak English from soap operas, but she also thought that all American girls acted like they do on soaps.
2006-07-18 07:59:44 · answer #6 · answered by "Nail" Wiz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I think it brainwashes my sister in law into thinking she can sit on her butt all day and watch them and not lift a finger to be a mom and a wife.
(Just the perfect question for me to vent my rage for her lack of motivation)
2006-07-18 07:59:14 · answer #7 · answered by Melissa B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. The big network acronyms you thought you knew all really have different meanings:
ABC=Absolute Brain Control
NBC=National Brain Conversion
CBS=Cerebral Bypass System
2006-07-18 08:01:56 · answer #8 · answered by TruthIsRelative 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the TV itself and everything that is pushed through it is brainwashing you if you dont have willpower and self control
every commerical
every show
every newscast
every product shown makes you the consumer you are.
2006-07-18 07:58:28 · answer #9 · answered by Xae 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MY OWN LIFE IS a "SOAP OPERA' IN AND OF ITSELF, SO I do NOT WATCH 'EM!!! YES, THEY ARE CONSTANTLY showing what life is NOT like!!!
2006-07-18 08:00:29 · answer #10 · answered by writerbethieangel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋