So it's agreed that brainwashing is not only possible but that it
happens all the time.

Who do you think is most suseptible and why?

Insecure ppl like me. Why? Because we're always seeking truth and love
and if we don't get it we think we're not worth it. If we do whatever
they say we tend to believe-if that makes any sensce lol Prolly not
sorry

What type of "brainwashing" are you referring to?

V.

hey somebody told e this was a dating site,, brainwashed again..

i think anyone is capable of being brainwashed. You hear something over
and over and you start to think maybe that is true and get pulled in.

young children thieir minds are moldable or people with low self esteem
and no sence of belonging

What about children. Their minds are just begining to open, to explore,
to learn. They do not learn "only" through self exploration, do they.
Do you think a child can be brainwashed, WITHOUT abuse as we understand
the word abuse?

Parents brainwash children all the time. Not even necessarily
intentionally.

Thanks Lex. What kinds of things to parents to or what do they say that
brainwashes their children?

Depending on your definition, we are brainwashed all the time. Might I
say, Eye cons, product branding, half truths. Here’s another perspective
more on the positive side – affirmations. I brainwash myself every day,
they’re right there on the mirror when I get up in the morning, setting
my intention, setting my direction and setting my day.

When I was a kid, my parents talked a lot about politicians. They
shared a political view, which I assumed, through a sort of familial
osmosis, was correct -- because they were my parents. It turned out
later that, once I was old enough to study the issues, my beliefs were
essentially the opposite of theirs. But when you're 5 or 6, your
parents seem like Unquestionable Fonts of Wisdom.

Lex is right on. Children just want to please so they mimic their
parents to be like them. A lot of parents just mimic what they parents
did…. And on goes the cycle.

children are the most suseptible but they are also very perceptive. They
take note with every thing going on around them.

you could tell a child their whole life that the color red is really
blue....they would believe you until schoolage. For the first 4 years of
a childs life their parents have the most impact on their social and
emotional well being

The younger the person the more suseptible they are to being "Molded"
and the Dumber the person the more Suseptible they are.

This site's got me brainwashed, I can't stay away from it

I agree, children are very susceptible but others can be too. We are
all looking for something and we all get decieved. We choose whether we
let the deception turn into brainwashing or not. I think people w/ low
self esteem, co-dependants, elderly, and those who have been taught to
do what they are told w/o questioning it are the most susceptible.

I agree that children are most susceptable; this is why most states no
longer allow a child to be talked to by police without a social worker
and counselor present. The reason being that for a long time when law
was invovled with parents wether it be for divorce or whatever, the
child would be "questioned" for hours without any comforts until they
said what was wanted ot hear. And I am sorry to say it is a very good
method of brainwashing. after so long I do not care who you are, you
will say what someone wants to hear. Imagine four days without food,
only three drops of water every few hours, not allowed to sleep, with
pulsing bright lights. There is nothing you wold not say to get out of
that. Children are even more susceptable.

I think that children are in Hook, Line, and Sinker. I think that
brianwashing a child in a positive aspect that introduces and instills
good moral values into the child is a good thing. A childs mind is like
a sponge, that absorbs all of it's surroundings like water.

We all are equally susceptible.

We all do our best to "brain-wash" each other - when we cajole our
friends to see a debate point our-way, when we argue with the boss,
co-worker that they're wrong... we brain-wash our children, our spouses,
even our-selves.

Its probably OK, until it becomes clearly malicous. When I try to
"brain-wash" you into becoming an agent of my ill-will to a 3rd party -
thats when it becomes really evil. In that case - who is most
susceptible? Those who have the most to lose. The wealthy, the elite,
the powerful. And, those who have the least to lose - the poor, the
destitute, the cast-outs.

When someone can focus a collective to carry out a violent action
against an establishment, thats a revolution. Its needed at times,
innocents will die, but, the greater good *may* be served.

When someone can focus a collective to carry out violence against
another collective, thats what leads to genocide. The real problem in
Iraq isnt the US, its the Shia/Sunni mindsets that are at war with each
other. Its very much about brainwashing - sunni's want shia's dead, and
vice-versa. Propagate that hate through the children, glorify the
killing of the other... it's got so little to do with the US.