Are we brainwashed?

[impatientyoutubeJ]

Even the nursery books tells that without being successful and money existence on earth is just like a pebble with no value.

[tprabash]

Im not brain washed but some people are brainwashed but political people need a brainwash 

[Berenzorn]

Corporations need our money and advertisement is their horsemen. More money to the gods of money.

[tvbcof]

Lots of the threads here on bitcointalk.org are textbook studies in 'brainwashing' and really valuable to a researcher/analyst for that reason. 

Considering that Bitcoin as a technology probably has appeal which skews toward the 'free-thinker' end of the scale, the observations are even more interesting.  And alarming.

I do not (because I cannot) rule out the existence of bots here, much less put a metric on it, but it certainly could be a factor.  A twitter-trained human on a cell phone is pretty indistinguishable from a bot a lot of times.

[mashedtasks6]

Yes by the government so that it benefits them.

[wistfuljob]

I don’t think we are brainwashed as it is not easy to do so.

[linesretweetG]

Yes. Totally. for the things that we do not want to do and etc.

[pazon456]

Yes definitely we are brainwashed by the money and current technology. It is really sad but all of us should admit with that

[timadok911]

society is degrading ... we are becoming dependent on the blessings of humanity about which we are being forced to market the television billboard, we can not live a day without photos and instagrams, snotty comments under the photo of the star .. where we roll ... I'm very upset by this ... and how are our children that will remain for them ... a solid society of destruction

[griddleegret4]

That clearly sounds like a goal to me and no we aren’t brainwashed.

[King Koy]

Nope! We are not brainwashed but what the people's behavior nowadays is just something what they understand from this Modern World. Look the government does not care about morality, doesn't care about the needs of his people, doesn't care about the future of the next generation. So what can we expect about the manners of human today? Nothing but the falling down of the true meaning of what really life is all about.

[sabtu malam]

not have a purpose, but does not yet have a goal for sure where they'll bring their lives become more useful than before. Maybe they haven't found something that makes comfortable and excited.

[unexecuted]

I look around and see people no longer have goals.
We are perfect consumers. And I can't help thinking that over time, we have been "gently" pushed in this direction.
No more goals, no ideas, ideology, morals or principles. Just having the latest iWhatever, fast car and sleep with plenty of women. Like a new special breed of zombies.
In the past people fought and gave their life for freedom. And now I think we are less free then before. It's just that we are persuaded otherwise. Like in ancient Rome - bread and circus.

Do you really want to give your life for something? Why? Our time is different from the past and people finally have an opportunity to live and enjoy their lives

[mintevacuateY]

We are clearly brainwashed. We are shown the wrong and not the right.

[stantpro]

Society brainwashes its citizens through the school or educational system.
Its all about mind twist from the days of school.Once, we graduate, we seek for job and
begin to do the  rat-racing of working and buying a whole of things produced by few thinkers(elites)
without pondering how to develop our own personal ideas, vision, projects and thoughts.We are
influenced by societal outcomes with high peer pressure to remain belonged in the system.It calls
for reflection.

[Brigalabdis]

Saving money for a nice product can be a goal

Yeah, the money is the important of all because nowadays, it can do whatever you want and also it get too powerful thing in this world.  Too many person who have a lot of money does have the power to do what their want to do.

Of course, we go to the latest fashion or way because people just think you positively when you are more good looking and have new or latest thing.

All thing can be change so don't be new to that.

[concatmedial8]

Following the dreams and getting the best is not being brainwashed.

[DrYe5]

Following the dreams and getting the best is not being brainwashed.

We get brainwashed at school  and the brainwashing continues in the workplace.We are adults, but we afraid of other adults because they are called Team Leader.We don't think there's anything wrong with that worldview. It feels normal to us.

[tenaciousme]

Its a gradual process, An example is homosexuality, Most tv shows and movies have gay characters in them, They want us to see it as a normal thing to the extent that we may accept is as a norm in our society but that aint gonna happen.

just wondering why you've chosen this very social phenomenon as an example...

[Babylon]

I look around and see people no longer have goals.
We are perfect consumers. And I can't help thinking that over time, we have been "gently" pushed in this direction.
No more goals, no ideas, ideology, morals or principles. Just having the latest iWhatever, fast car and sleep with plenty of women. Like a new special breed of zombies.
In the past people fought and gave their life for freedom. And now I think we are less free then before. It's just that we are persuaded otherwise. Like in ancient Rome - bread and circus.

Yes we are technically brainwashed at school , and even to the social media , and medias though sad but that is the true instead of living by the truth we tend to live in the society that is cruel and full of fake and lie. We have no privacy , I think we aren't free anymore we're like a bird in a cage with no freedom to fly.