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Oct 2, 2024, 9:55 PM

Brainwashed: Part 11 – Summation

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Brainwashed – Part 11 – Summation I wonder whether this matter of mind control frightens you as much as it frightens me. Are we designed for this, are we built for this – this controlling one another? Are we not supposed to take care of one...

Oct 1, 2024, 6:47 PM

Brainwashed: Part 10

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Part 10 – Direct Mind Control / Brainwashing And then, my dear friends (I humbly bestow that honorable title if you will accept, solely because you have come this far in reading, unless of course you also already are a dear friend and are still sticking...

Sep 30, 2024, 9:45 PM

Brainwashed: Part 9

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Part 9 – Purposeful, Outright Bamboozling Let’s look now at even more direct forms of mind control. In previous installments we have seen ways that society plans to control the way we think, for better or for worse (depending upon who may benefit). Now let...

Sep 27, 2024, 11:14 PM

Brainwashed: Part 8

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Part 8 – Social Media, Influencers, Addictive Media More about Societal Pressures You may be correct, gentle reader, that in the prior parts of this ad hoc look at controlling minds much of what we have discussed has been some form of “societal pressure.” Today...

Sep 27, 2024, 12:06 AM

Brainwashed: Part 7

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Part 7 – The Media and Propaganda The Media Now let us broaden our discussion in Part 6 about the Fourth Estate – the news reporters – to the “media” in general. Please remember that the Fourth Estate is by far one of the most...

Sep 25, 2024, 9:49 PM

Brainwashed: Part 6

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Part 6 – Controlling the Message and Electioneering Controlling the Message Last time we discussed the Fourth Estate, and how often nowadays they seem to be withholding or not seeking out all the information, and perhaps using some sort of filter on what they put...

Sep 23, 2024, 11:26 PM

Brainwashed: Part 5

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Part 5 – The Fourth Estate Way back in the beginning of Part 1, I mentioned that if we ourselves are the only person blowing on our own pinwheel – without other input – the only way we could exist is with a mirror. Let’s revisit...

Sep 23, 2024, 8:02 AM

Brainwashed: Part 4

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Part 4 – Positive Influences Welcome to Part 4 of our series on controlling our minds. Today let’s take a look at some of the more positive ways we affect others’ minds, and others affect ours. Falling in Love Does falling in love alter our minds? ...

Sep 19, 2024, 11:15 PM

Brainwashed: Part 3

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Part 3 – Convincing and Advertising Welcome back to our discussion of how we shape each others’ minds and brains. It should be obvious by now that even I am trying to convince you of something! If only one of us were certain what that...

Sep 17, 2024, 11:04 PM

Brainwashed: Part 2

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Part 2 – Etiquette and Peer Pressure Etiquette We left you, gentle readers, in Part 1, pondering the extent to which we control our children’s minds, from infancy through school. During those same years we might also attune our children to our etiquette rules. Let’s...

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Author of POCKETS: The Problem with Society Is in Women's Clothing (www.AudreyGlickman.com), Audrey N. Glickman has experience as a rabbi’s assistant, in nonprofits, government, advertising, and as a legal secretary. A native Pittsburgher, Audrey has served on many boards, organizations, and committees, advocating for many causes, including equal rights, civil rights, secure recountable voting, preserving the earth, good government, improving institutions, and understanding and tending to our fellow human beings.