History Of Brain Washing Essay

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Washing the Brains of Many and Shocking the World with Advances in Genetic Engineering Opinions? Yes everyone has an opinion but that doesn’t give them the right to press and force their opinion onto other people. Brain washing is a very extreme form of persuasion. Physiological abuse is what the people claim that the brain washing technique is. The word brain washing came from as early as the Korean War when American soldiers saw communism first hand. Although having everyone on the same page can be nice, brain washing should not exist and be against the law because people should be able to decide and control their own life instead of being persuaded to do what other people want them to do. Brain washing is wrong on so many different levels. When people are being brain washed they are not given the opportunity to think and act on their own. Some people might say that brain washing is a thing of the past, but in all honesty, it is not. Some type of brain washing is happening every day and people may not even see it. In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, they started brain washing the people of their community at a very early age. In the novel they had the motto of “Community, Identity, Stability” and the people lived their lives by it. Today in our world we have brain washed people by extremely persuading them to pay taxes, to follow all the rules the government has laid out for us, we have the democratic and republican parties control and actions to elect people into office, and the whole idea that making kids go to college will guarantee them a better life. The devices we use to create such persuasion are statistics and media such as the news, radio, and electronic devices. These devices aren’t needed for brain washing ... ... middle of paper ... ...a way is committing suicide of yourself as an individual. Being an individual starts at birth when you are no longer attached to your mother by an umbilical cord. The scientific breakthroughs with genetic engineering have created lives and have showed signs of hope for many people out there in this great big world. This essay may be considered a form of brain washing to persuade you as a reader to believe that my way of thinking is right and that all of these breakthroughs in science are great and brain washing is bad, but that’s not at all what I’m trying to do. You as a reader should believe what you want without my opinions affecting yours. Extreme persuasion is brain washing, and if I brain washed you as a reader to believe that my views are right or if I have changed your views on these topics, then I have created a perfect example of how brain washing works.

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