Indoctrination of the Human Spirit:

I am reminded of the way Native-American indigenous people as well as the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Incas - to name a few - were manipulated, brain-washed, enslaved, exploited and forced to see themselves and their unique culture and lifestyles in a completely different way to what they believed in.

Throughout history, human beings have been inevitably but strategically subjected to and required to process “available” information that is supposed to match pre-programmed expectations, conform to other people’s beliefs and demands, and to convincingly please our well-conditioned, earthly, tangible senses.

Does this sound like a wordy way to describe “brain-washing” ??? Well, yes, but it goes far beyond that notion. It may be difficult to accept, but for the past few thousand years - if not longer - we have allowed our senses to be shaped and domesticated as specifically instructed, so they can process information in pre-determined, consumer-tailored ways and means through which it is spoon-fed and, more often than not, force-fed to us.

Whatever looks like an established fact, an age-old custom or tradition or a seemingly civilized concept, we have had to accept and react accordingly to the software’s instruction-manual in order to meet societal expectations and conform to the status quo, such as all the tradition-rich, nostalgia-filled, for-the-sake-of-history examples set by the previous generation. Over and over and over again.

Our upbringing and the socio-cultural atmosphere in which we are raised greatly - no, I correct myself - HUGELY influences our behavior, sense of self, long-term identity; they do determine which mental models we will carry with us for the rest of our lives and which models will impact our beliefs and actions.