07 Mar 08
The post that was quoted here has been removedI just mentioned the first sect popin' in my head 🙂
Yup, but I disagree only kids can be fooled easily.
What your teachers did is actually done with masses of adults.
As a matter of fact, I think kids are more suspicious than adults... at least if they are not plugged to the XBox since 2 years old.
07 Mar 08
The post that was quoted here has been removedAt that age I can understand it being a feeling of alienation, but now that you are an adult dosen't everyone around you seam as unique? I'm not trying to take it away but I'm meaning that we are all as free thinking- well I have met and am realted to some who seam unbeleivably close-minded like they were different but chose to switch it off somewhere along the line- generally though, the more I get to know someone, the more I find that everyone is as you are discirbing.
07 Mar 08
Originally posted by pawnhandlerAlso bookmarked. I enjoyed Shogun...although I think it could have been just as effective at about 600 pages.
http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm
I was hoping to find a copy of a blurb about the book and found the story itself! Equally important, though, was the blurb on the jacket of the book in which the author explains the events that caused him to write the story.
A must-read.
08 Mar 08
Originally posted by pawnhandlerWas that the whole story?
http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm
I was hoping to find a copy of a blurb about the book and found the story itself! Equally important, though, was the blurb on the jacket of the book in which the author explains the events that caused him to write the story.
A must-read.
It reminds me a little of The Catcher in The Rye.
08 Mar 08
The post that was quoted here has been removedAll children need direction and guidance. That's what gives society the structure that it has. That's how we got to the civilised, sort of, society, that we live in today. This in itself, is brainwashing.
Living creatures learn by two main systems; inherited behaviour and learned behaviour. One could could argue that all learned behaviour is brainwashing. Afterall, at the end of the day, the two are synonimous.
You are right about the media though. It is perverse and it has perverted society. The majority of the standards it sets within society (and sadly, that society take on) are materialistic, superficial and quite frankly, not worth a s##t.
08 Mar 08
The post that was quoted here has been removedNot so alienated then!
Not all childern are brought up on TV. I wasn't and my cousins aren't. But I think you're talking about becomming an adult as much as anything else, knowing ones' own mind is an adult thing, that you had an early glymps of in that playground I think.
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