RE: Indoctrination
February 23, 2022 at 2:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2022 at 4:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Nah, ahris mom gives as many shits about ahri as we do. Hence Ahri.
Dialing it back a bit, though, to another comment. The idea that indoctrination was to get people to accept things uncricitically. Maybe, but that would be a weak form. I've been indoctrinated, and it took, and it wasn't an issue of taking things uncritically, but in having a competent and aggressive response to criticism wherever, however, and as it occurred.
The real trick to indoctrination isn't to get people to believe things in a vacuum - but to compel them to/and/or/provide them with the means to maintain those beliefs even in the face of strong criticism. It's one thing to produce a person who can accept some thing x uncritically. It's another to produce a person who, with full knowledge, doubting x themselves...can competently argue against x, but doesn't have to, in order to deny x...but would still do otherwise unconscionable shit in service of x even so.
I'm a smart, sensitive guy..or at least I like to think so...but nothing could stand between me and my indoctrinated objectives. I'd see the whole of earth burnt to cinder before I abandoned that imperative. That, and not some cheap shit, is indoctrination. Hell, long before I was indoctrinated to martial violence, I was indoctrinated to the inevitability of human kindness, hope, and ingenuity. Still waiting to see which of these two programs pays real dividends in my lifetime.
Dialing it back a bit, though, to another comment. The idea that indoctrination was to get people to accept things uncricitically. Maybe, but that would be a weak form. I've been indoctrinated, and it took, and it wasn't an issue of taking things uncritically, but in having a competent and aggressive response to criticism wherever, however, and as it occurred.
The real trick to indoctrination isn't to get people to believe things in a vacuum - but to compel them to/and/or/provide them with the means to maintain those beliefs even in the face of strong criticism. It's one thing to produce a person who can accept some thing x uncritically. It's another to produce a person who, with full knowledge, doubting x themselves...can competently argue against x, but doesn't have to, in order to deny x...but would still do otherwise unconscionable shit in service of x even so.
I'm a smart, sensitive guy..or at least I like to think so...but nothing could stand between me and my indoctrinated objectives. I'd see the whole of earth burnt to cinder before I abandoned that imperative. That, and not some cheap shit, is indoctrination. Hell, long before I was indoctrinated to martial violence, I was indoctrinated to the inevitability of human kindness, hope, and ingenuity. Still waiting to see which of these two programs pays real dividends in my lifetime.
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