Brainwashing thread incoming although noone asked, tweeting for me myself and eye https://twitter.com/destuhnym/status/1263881447863136257

SO THE THREAD BEGINS: brainwashing is surprisingly simple for the ones doing it, it is considered in psychology to be the act of "thought reform". With this people can use things in your environment to fluctuate your emotions in a way that would make you easier to manipulate

Complex to some degree is understanding the connection between the fluctuation of human emotion, self identification, and very smartly using the gaps in our more unstable but still visceral experiences of emotions to expose us to "impressions". Something like imprinting

I'll use an example. Take the opinions of middle class caribbean parents on marijuana. They don't necessarily know someone who has had their life "ruined" by smoking marijuana but you cannot get them to be open to the idea of seeing the drug as medicine. It just bad fullstop.

Okay so where does this start? And where does most of the exposure to "impressions" start? The media! (Hate to hear it but its life). An impression is a form of media: visuals+sounds that is impactful in its message or delivery, being repeated in ways that eventually influence

This family watches movies about the hood, the "gangsters" that are either, dead, arrested or villianous are driven by the selling of weed, they watch bad boys, most people are being arrested for weed or drug charges(that begins an association bias as these charges are connected)

When the character you've grown emotional attachment to dies, suspenseful music is played, heightening your sensitivity to feeling impacted (sound psychology is very real), another movie you watch, the people who use weed have minor contributions and are viewed as odd or foolish

This is consistent and constant, we simply dub it as a "stereotype" and keep it at surface level. But my love, the acceptance of a stereotype is part of conditioning, when it is normalized it means that to an extent a person has agreed with the implied message of the imprint

Some people are more susceptible to accepting the message behind the impression than others, just a difference of personalities or how easily a person becomes afraid of "what ifs". That's where self identification through fear begins but I'm not tryna have a 20 tweet thread

Do you ever wonder why the media has made it a point not to show people using weed in a spiritual ritual?As medicine? To have a main character be a fully functioning, smart, capable, connaisuer of pot?And why they chose the race of the thug with weed and lazy pothead differently?

Bonus tweet: this is also in part responsible for the difference between white and black peoples feelings about weed, the use of certain negative tropes attached to race affects our self identification (we relate to and connect emotions with people who look like us).

So now we've come to a place, current day, where you ask your parents, never affected by marijuana about the use of weed and they DONT WANNA HEAR IT. They dont care where it's legal or not.

"People overseas drink weed tea to help with anxiety"

"Good for them"

Ask them why they arent open to the idea:
I just dont like it
I dont know about all of that I hear some people does go crazy
Them can do what for them I cant accept using DRUGS (but would take a panadol or any pill a doctor give them)

No opinion they have was likely thought about objectively without the influence of an impression given to them through the media. It wont matter what evidence you present them with, brainwashing makes it that their first response will to be to reject new ideas about the topic

Many things impact this with laws and more physical affects so please view this thread in the bubble that I describe it in. The media does with with EVERYTHING, repeated exposure to the same messages, just delivered different. Soon it becomes easy to manipulate collective thought

Eventually it's in your everyday environment, your friends and family are talking about the online narrative, ads, you overhear strangers talking about it. All of these things stick to your conscious and subconscious and overtime will influence you and you'll defend it too

The internet is so fast its inconvenient for us to sit and analyze our true feelings about everything we see, so we tend to just go with it. But I ask everybody to take some time out to detox your mind from social media. Unconditioning yourself takes time, so take small steps