How we get indoctrinated
by Azly Rahman
To understand how our consciousness is constantly being fragmented, and how the self is constantly deconstructed and reconstructed, and how ‘truth’ is an ever-changing ‘construct’ based on the intended and unintended designs of forces of economic and cultural production, we must understand what ‘indoctrination’ means.
A doctrine is a set of concepts produced from a particular point of view that is then packaged by the believers into a regime of truth that is then propagated via enabling technologies. Indoctrination then is a process of enforcing the doctrine that contains ‘truth-force’.
The believers of a doctrine often use the state apparatuses (the branches of government, the media, and the educational sector) to further promote the doctrine. Intellectuals that become promoters of ideology become the ‘intelligentsia’. Hence, at every epoch of human progress the intelligentsia is produced through whatever kind of political state that is established.
Let us look closer at how ‘truth-force’ works in the process of indoctrination. How might this force become brutish and violent in the way it shackles the human mind? How might ignorance be multiplied and becomes hegemonic?
There are many ways ‘truth-force’ can be funneled into the minds of the people for example, through education and the means of modern communication.
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Imagine, for a moment that, almost every time the credits rolled for a Malaysian TV production (fiction or non-fiction), the names of the producer, director, writer and those of many other key media types were Chinese. In other words that the culture of the Malay majority was being maliciously distorted and the resulting left - leaning ordure passed off as a representation by a minority group who share neither their religious tenets, racial psyche or cultural assumptions.
Well now you know how it feels to be A White American faced with Jewish media pollution as this academic's essay makes clear:
http://www.theoccidentalquarterly.com/archives/vol6no3/TOQConnellyV6N3.pdf
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