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I believe I might be brainwashed because it's starting to get harder and harder to think independently and it seems like the media and the people around me are constantly using shame tactics to stop me from making my own choices. I don't know if this is really happening but the thought of it scares me. Is it normal to believe this?
Here's the thing bud, everyone wants you to share their outlook on the world. If you think about stuff in that context, we're all attempting to "brainwash" each other. Who's to say who's worldviews or opinions are correct? Ultimately, you get to make that call, but don't think that you've come to that place independent of everything. To a certain extent, we're all products of our environment.
It is abso fucking lutely happening!
Every time you turn on the TV, the radio or go online, you are bombarded by "brainwashing". In the US especially, the powers that be, have fine tuned it to a science. Every bit of news and all advertisements are slanted to achieve a goal, be it to get you to buy a product or support some political idea.
Geo Bush brainwashed the entire nation, by first allowing 9/11 to happen (he knew it was coming and could have stopped it) to incense the population, then flat chat lying about weapons of mass destruction to get the American people to allow him to go into Iraq, so Chaney and gang could become uber-rich.
It is your responsibility to see through the "brainwashing" and pick the few small grains of truth out. Good luck.