you're cleaning it. So why when someone is brainwashing you (washing your brain...), it means they're filling your mind with unwanted stuff (dirt)?
2007-05-28 10:46:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
i think that brainwashing means that someone is making you think the way they think
2007-05-28 10:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by beck beck 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right, it implies that your mind is already filled up with unwanted rubbish and needs to be wiped clean to be refilled with 'desireable' ideas.
Modern techniques originated in the Soviet Union and the KGB. Remember Pavlov and his dog's that salivated when the bell rang? One spring, his laboratory got flooded out, along with the rest of St Petersburg. After a week, when the flood receded, most of his dogs were found dead. A few were still alive, starving and literally inches from drowning. Pavlov found that all of their carefully conditioned responses were completely wiped away by the 'near-death' experience. Stalin realized this was how to re-train people to accept his Marxist Utopia, and the modern era of political brainwashing was born.
2007-05-28 18:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chinese term for coercing someone to believe something by force is xÇ nÄo (æ´è ¦) which translates to "to wash the brain."
2007-05-28 17:54:36 · answer #3 · answered by Laenir 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep - washing your belief system out - to replace it with theirs
money is bad - money is bad - money is bad
just send it to me and you will be free
yeah right - what's you address?
2007-05-28 17:54:46 · answer #4 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋