So for example in 2022 a philosopher called Chris Rali wrote a paper about indoctrination and he was trying to answer the question what is it that makes somebody indoctrinated? How can we define indoctrination ? And Rali argues that indoctrination is not defined by believing one thing or believing another thing. It's when you close your citadel to any alternative positions. It's when you associate your belief with an identity. You are that belief. And so you see any rivals to that position as a kind of test of faith. You see any rivals as a kind of temptation.
I mean, I was born two weeks before the Soweto riots. So I know about indoctrination by state and by family and by church more than most actually. I was just wondering, what is your perspective on how racial attitudes have changed for white people in South Africa towards other races,
And in addition to the financial restrictions or limitations, there's also the issue of significant political indoctrination of the educational system. It's very difficult for a professor of technology or information systems to be in a classroom with students who do not have access to the internet.
between Americans and their cars, between teenage Americans and their cars, right? Think about this indoctrination that you get as a teenager. If you had told me that Instagram was going to kill the car, I'd have laughed at you.
That is the inside of a Vostok, it was called, sphere. And there's a lot of indoctrination that goes on, political indoctrination , at the same time.
What matters more is loyalty and what matters more is identity. So for example in 2022 a philosopher called Chris Rali wrote a paper about indoctrination and he was trying to answer the question what is it that makes somebody indoctrinated? How can we define indoctrination ? And Rali argues that indoctrination is not defined by believing one thing or believing another thing. It's when you close your citadel to any alternative positions.
So they were the fittest, healthiest men on the planet-- I mean, one of them actually says that-- by 1960. So you've got a massive training-- you've also got a Communist indoctrination exercise program too. So they have to do all of that as well.
The largest fishes, like tuna, salmon, many of the other ones, are teetering on the brink of collapse. There aren't many fish left. That's the fundamental, primal level of indoctrination in our culture, of connection to the Earth.
So what Bitan is saying is that stupidity isn't limited to any one particular type of person. It can be anywhere. It can be in the academy. It can be an incredibly intelligent person who steps outside of their lane. So Chris Finalei in 2022 wrote a paper into indoctrination and he was trying to look at the factors that make somebody indoctrinated and he is quite clear early on in his paper to make the distinction that anybody can become indoctrinated. It doesn't matter whether you are a Christian or an atheist or leftwing or right-wing or a meat eater or a
well, the mainstream media are the enemy. They'll immediately discount this information. They'll immediately discount this article because it was written by a certain person, by a certain outlet, by a certain publication. That's an example of what Rali would call indoctrination . They are so used to viewing the enemy in certain areas that they will not take anything that they say as worth considering. Now that's the first part of Rali's paper. But the second part of
and you want to get on with more people, you should get used to saying the words I don't know from time to time. So, what can we all do to reverse what Bonhoeffer was seeing in society and what Frankfurt was seeing in society? what Renali is pointing out in his work on indoctrination . I mean, the first thing is to model what we want to change.
And this is a very fine calculation that changes every week, let alone every year. And people can quibble with that term, but it's Putinesque indoctrination schools.
especially for boys. A long time ago, it used to be a men-only ceremony. And I think it's changed in large part over the years because of not only indoctrination , but assimilation to a patriarchal society. And a long time ago, women, because of their moon, the menstrual cycle, had a way of purifying themselves.
isolated, obsessively devoted to playing video games, and intensely focused on machinery, and whose genius is inborn rather than the result of study and hard work. Given that such stereotypes run counter to the indoctrination most girls still receive that they should be feminine, whatever that means, interested in working with other people, and modest about their abilities, as well as many girls' beliefs that they are not innately gifted at science or math, it's no surprise that they cannot
Well, was I was serving a three and a half to seven year sentence at Franklin Correction Facility for possession with the intent to distribute. And they brought me back down to Downstate, which is indoctrination into the Department of Corrections. And so it was there that they brought me-- and I didn't know it was officers at first.
Go away and challenge your own belief. That's the first thing we could all do individually. Escape your echo chamber. The second thing is interpersonal. And this links back to what Chris Rali was saying about indoctrination is that when we are talking with somebody else, appreciate that beliefs are not just specimens on the table that we can dissect and poke.
And this is a very fine calculation that changes every week, let alone every year. obviously teaching the Russian language, Putin's view of history, and effectively indoctrination .
So it always started, of course, with recruiting. And then the next step, which was much more important than I thought it would be, was the socialization process, where actually some of the indoctrination and the ideological manipulation comes through a form of group cohesion that is created by almost completely new subcultures
But on top of that, the North Korean government also pumps an inordinate amount of propaganda and ideology, from a very young age, into the North Korean people, in a form of extreme indoctrination . And so because of this, this is how the North Korean government has been able to control North Korean society for so long.
male #1: Professor Dawkins, thank you very much for coming and I'm a great admirer of your work and as yourself a proud atheist. Fortunately, a large number of people actually do but too many of them unfortunately don't and so childhood indoctrination of course persists to the next generation and the next
We're really lucky. I'm gonna burp. it the "spiritual education" of our son. And that doesn't mean like, indoctrination into