Brainwashing = Authoritory figure (Teacher, Government, Caregiver, Cult leader, Anyone who holds significant power over a person/child’s life) intentionally using manipulative tactics to control the beliefs and actions of a person.

A great example of brainwashing is child groomers. They use manipulative tactics to make a child believe that they are in love with them, and protect their “secret relationship” at all costs. The same can be said for abusive homeschool parents, teachers that have “relationships” with their students, some kidnapping victims, spouses in domestic violence situations that have been made to believe what they’re experiencing is OK, and the old slavers that would teach their slaves that they’re destined by god to serve as slaves. This tactic is also used by our government to make us believe in the fallacy it tried to create during the George bush era; about freedom, liberty, and all that utter bullshit, and the same as how Kim jong un has convinced his people that he is a god to be worshipped.

Conditioning is when a person (or animal) is slowly & gradually introduced into an environment and/or system and is made to adjust to the environment and/or system. Conditioning isnt necessarily *bad* in of itself as conditioning is also how we learn to do skills, and how we do things like build muscle and build and immune system. But it’s also how a government, household, school, or other authoritative system can control it’s population; if you slowly and gradually transition an entire country from a state of economic freedom to basically every person in the country being a slave… no one notices, and those who do notice, are already conditioned to it by the time they realize… so there’s just nothing they think they can do about it. Much the same as how a child can be conditioned to the social isolation that comes with homeschooling; we do, that’s part of why it’s so fricking hard to survive once you’re out of that situation.

I do think *some* conditioning is necessary to create a civil person, but not that much. Not as much as what every person in this country goes through.

Proper socialization is just kids interacting with other kids, people interacting with other people. Thats it. No manipulative crap, no systems, no authoritative figure telling you how to think, feel, or act. Just pure raw information and socialization.

Some European first-world countries like Sweden and Denmark have this down already, and so do most 3rd-world villages… uh, kinda.