How did this generation of kids become so brainwashed and easily manipulated?

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It’s frankly really troubling and concerning

BeMuse · Accepted Answer

Read a little history... It's the same playbook by the same people...

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are
always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than
consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds
they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they
themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort
to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate
colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove
this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and
waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For
the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been
nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all
who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how
to use falsehood for the basest purposes." -Adolf Hitler

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

It sure is!! To start with, their parental units weren't the BRIGHTEST bulbs on the tree!! then, you have mass media telling them of all the bullshit they're SUPPOSED to think is super cool, and, if THEY want to be seen as super cool, too, they MUST conform to this way of life and those things they're TOLD to like. THERE'S your brainwashing!! Nobody bothers to teach them to BE individuals so, they just copy everybody else and, as nobody else is TAUGHT to ACCEPT another's individualism, society forces them to pigeonhole themselves just to fit in and keep from being beaten up just because they didn't comb their hair the right way, this morning! That's one of the coolest things ABOUT the `60's and the early `80's!! You could be, look, dress, think as weird as you want and everyone in your peer group accepted you and even supported you and your right to be/look/dress/think that way!! Today, if you're not in the clique, nobody likes you!! And, apparently, these days, it's REALLY hip to be as stupid as possible!!

Puppystarfish23 · Accepted Answer

If anything I think this generation is the opposite of brainwashed. We have the information at are finger tips and can make views and opinions for are self's without the media and school teachers telling us what to think. Yes I'll amit some are for example I know a lot of my friends who went uni have became brainwashed lefty's but that's because they are around it everyday and are just trying to fit in with that crowd because they are scared to speak there minds and are bullied into thinking a certain way my lectures and fellow students. I even have lied about my opinions on things before just so I wasn't hated on my people I worked with who all went to some hippie school that daddy paid for.

Ammi_goldie806 · Accepted Answer

I don't know if you don't know but if you're thinking that way then I think you need to look at the past before them you should be blaming the parents and everybody before them because they are only learning what the old is putting out the only picking up what the old generation has put down like if we say for example have a man-made thing and it's a bad thing the new generation has to pick up where the old generation left off so that's how it works unless the old generation does not create future issues for the future generation. So who you think should be blamed for the brainwash?

MCheetah · Answer

It's easy: They outlawed school bullying after Columbine happened in 1999 (the first major school shooting in America) and raised a generation of Millhouses known as Millennials, who are so weak-minded, fragile, and soft, they never developed any character for themselves. They're also extremely bratty, selfish, narcissitic, and spoiled, being almost literal man-children. They're bratty 8-year old sh*ts in the bodies of late 20-somethings.

That by itself would be bad. But then you have politicians taking this generation of demoralized losers who hate themselves, hate their gender, hate their race, and most of all, hate their country, and telling them Communism and Neo-Marxism is the magic solution to all their problems. Forcefully take money from the rich and "redistribute it" to themselves, so they can continue being man-children with 10 TB of porn and $5,000 worth of marijuana in their bedrooms, and woman-children selling feet pics on OnlyFans and ordering Chinese food every night, thinking that's what proper "adulting" is.

And no, I'm not judging people based on their lifestyle habits alone. I'm judging these losers based on them thinking they know what's best for everyone in society and have the proper state of mind to run the world. Like Jordan Peterson memeically said, these people don't even know how to clean their room, let alone their bad habits in life. What better way to give hope to a generation of sad losers than with state-funded Communism and having them project out their self-hatred onto others through the virtue signaling fake-activism of "social justice." (Even saying it sounds wrong. "Social... Justice?" Like Cancel Culture trails against Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse.)

As the quote goes, "Hard times make hard men, hard men make peaceful times, peaceful times make weak men, weak men make hard times..."

RealMarek · Answer

Historically, teen rebellion is highly unusual. When a culture is stable teens will typically follow their elders. The idea of teen rebellion and non-conformity that began in the 50s was astroturfed by a new set of globalist/leftist elites ushered into power by FDR. Teen rebellion was quickly promoted by the media and entertainment industry. The iconic rebellious pop cultural figures of each generation that rebelled tended to actually be ten or so years older than that generation. At first rebellion was directed against the father (James Dean, etc.), then the whole older generation (the Hippies), then cultural norms generally (the 70s). Very quickly, the society understood teenage rebellion and discord between generations to be natural. Teenage rebellion was allowed to continue until almost all major institutions, especially corporations, were firmly subverted by the globalist elites. Once that happened, there was a last gasp of teen rebellion in the 1990s, but the rebels of that time, which vainly sought authenticity, found that their rebellion was impotent and easily commercialized (consider the Smashing Pumpkins line “Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.”). The millennials did not rebel at all. This was no accident. The media and entertainment industries did not produce rebellious pop cultural icons, but churned out advocates for the regime. Now the millennials are the regime’s cultural enforcers in the middle management and HR departments of corporations, schools, etc. Why is this generation of kids so easily brainwashed and manipulated? Because all of their incentives are structured to encourage compliance with prevailing thought and punishment for deviation from it.

ODC2112 · Answer

The easily manipulated geneations are the Boomers and Generation X. This is because the only source of information was controlled and gave the hoaxes that interested those in power. Such generations are those who have been trained to blindly trust the mass media as a source of information. In the past there was a widespread higher cultural level in contrast to this. However, since the 1980s, the fact that the more stupid one is, the more socially acceptable one is, has begun to be sold and to promote the ignorant from a working point of view. With significant effects on society and on whether people document themselves or not.
People who have been part of their teens with the information from the internet about which lies are always being shot have a lower propensity to believe such machinations. Generally these generations are more ignorant because they have had a simplified school.
From my point of view the most gullible are those of generation X. Instead the problem with Generation Z is not that they are manipulable, but that they don't understand a large part of the world they haven't lived in.

420happy69holiday · Answer

TBH according to my recollection it just started with Tupac and biggie getting killed. I don't know you are cultural preference but Nas made a song called hip hop is dead and the early 2000s and he was right. Hip hop died and was replaced with a fraudulent doppelganger of itself. Now women are making music that men used to make and men are making music that women used to make. Masculinity has been replaced with ignorance Now these kids think that struggling means crying because your mom won't give you her antidepressants. I don't think that the powers that be wanted someone like Tupac and biggie being in charge of a whole generation, they definitely don't want an uprising unless it's of their own cause like all the BLM riots. Death Park and biggie were to successfully motivate an entire generation then revolution the likes of which we've never seen before could have happened. And if you remember what happened this last election then you know that one side will do whatever it takes to remain in power.

Anonymous · Answer

Well let's take a look at the 60s. Rough times right? Before, kids didn't really pay attention to politics that much. They didn't even know wtf it was or even cared for it. When the vietnam war/civil rights movement came along however, it surely became viral enough to the point young people started anti-war/race equality protests. Now fast forward to 2015, we have Trump first announcing that he was gonna become president of the United States. Due to insane mass coverage from the media, young people started to become obsessed with politics. Before 2015, we didn't care for politics at all. We just saw someone (like Obama) running for president and we thought he would be a good candidate as opposed to someone like John McCain, since we heard he wasn't the best choice. We couldn't give two fucks about boring ass politics back then. Now celebrities, social media influencers, outlets, the news, and talk show hosts are what constantly remind us of politics. I'm not saying that it's never been like that, but more so now since we have access to technology far greater than past generations. This makes it easier for corporations and social media outlets to manipulate how we think about events going on today. While social media has its benefits, it is also within a doubt a cancer as not only has it made a generation more depressed and mentally sick than the ones before it, but it also made it easier for people in power to mind fuck us.

scentoflavender · Answer

I dont think theyre brainwashed. I think they have a different perspective on life based on their experiences, no different that us with our parents. I know, personaly, with my kids, theyve had a better quality life in terms of opportunities and financial help, then myself or my ex hsuband had growing up. Yes that can make them spoiled children at times, but it also presents the chance for them to become stable much quicker than we did.

Also, god bless their little hearts. Look at the world theyre growing up in.

HighValue · Answer

The main problem is that internet and social media companies censor the truth and promote their agenda. Too many people rely on those sources for information, but the information is often false.

The other problem is that parents have been terrible for a long time, relying on TV, the internet, and liberal teachers to teach their kids morals and critical thinking when they are actually just taught to repeat what they are told and to never question anything. I've worked in schools for 11 1/2 years. I have seen lies being spread purposely and have even been instructed to spread certain lies among the students. When I refused and told the students exactly what lies the administration wanted me to tell them I was disciplined at work. They get angry when someone won't help them lie to students.

Hyped_up_on_coffee · Answer

I blame gen X for not giving them enough attention. Gen Z is obsessed with validation and tries so hard to be different. Their parents also don’t send them to therapy or go to family therapy to talk about why they want to use neo pronouns. And their college profs don’t challenge them and are afraid because they are like a cult

katiesmuff · Answer

SOCIAL FUCKING MEDIA!! Your fucking useless facebook, snap chat, tick tock to name a few. Much of the problem exists because of parents as well. First off they get their kids smart phones at much too young ages, and don't control the content the kids use. Teens are on their phones pretty much every waking hour they are awake without parents limiting time.
In short it is Lazy not caring parents, and social media out for profit only regardless of anything else.

Anonymous · Answer

Honestly I'm afraid to have a child in this world every where I go pride is being pushed in my face be you be gay try it you might actually like being gay like wait I used to be a lgbtq member but personal life changes I am into men i never saw this as a trend just something normal like what you like not a big deal today they got question are you gay and telling kids try it try it try it like whooaahhhh why we pushing things onto people

TallAnon · Answer

There's an interesting phenomena with the internet.
People click on things they like to see.
The internet has algorithms to give them the maximum amount of these. (You liked this, would you like that? You've seen this content creator before, want to see more?)
This creates an echo chamber over time, it's not like this is a one day process, it gradually pushes you to extremes.
"Brainwashing" occurs because they see more and more of the same opinions, that get more extreme over time.
"Manipulation" becomes easy because they only get used to seeing opinions they agree with.

notwoke · Answer

they are the first generation of people raised by people who had single parents. their parents don't know shit so they have no chance. People my parents age pretty much had a 0% divorce rate while they still had kids in the house. throughout HS, I'd say I went our with probably 50 girls on dates and I met about every father. If your father or mother was raised with no father or no mother (less common) they missed a lot of things they won't be able to pass on. Few men my age can't say, change a tire or change oil or use common power tools efficiently because our father taught this and a lot more such as how to treat women and think for ourselves.

MJtheCoach · Answer

Mainstream media / the schools/ sex has became so open / social media especially Tiktok had destroyed them behind repairs.

Ah average good looking 16 year old has more sex experience than a 30 year girl that was born in the 80’s

Kids think is cool to do everything so early on.
Experiencing what a 35 year old man’s life at age 12.
Will destroy them!

They’re all know everything do nothing depressed braindead anti thinkers Tiktok generation.

While Chinese boys are learning about military stuff, and their girls are being put through education / learning by hands.

The west has became weak and lazy, and boys are extremely feminine that smallest words will break them.

normalice · Answer

What do you mean "easily"? Rich people have spent billions on right wing think tanks to figure out how to brainwash people. When thousands of established careers are dedicated to tricking people who have had no real experience with con artists except maybe amatures, it is unreasonable to expect them to untangle all the lies in a 30 second sentence that took hundreds of man hours to write.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

Weak traditional & family values might be one of the reasons. No fear of a higher power could be another. Somehow, they learn to fend for themselves without any genuinely reliable support structure which results in choosing their own path that others just don't understand & accept.

Brokenheartedx · Answer

Scgools dont teach, the teachers are pushing their political views onto kids. Theyve dumbed down subjects so the kids can pass and can't be critisized in case it hurts the kids feelings. So children are now neing taught gender neutral rather than geography or history. Their brains are being filled with absolute shite that they actually believe it.

ManOnFire · Answer

Largely the use of technology is a major factor. And having your kids grow up in public school around peers who are foolish, toxic, getting into shit, etc. Social media molds the younger generation's brain and sets them up to fail in the long run.

They have no true identity. No values. And no proper guidance.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

Kids take after their parents.
If your parents are conservative they're likely to push their agenda on you. Vice versa.
Some don't grow out of that, some don't realize they can form their own opinions, some don't want to try looking at things from a different perspective.

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

Their parents refused to believe that what goes on in schools today is so radically different from what they remember. They ignore red flags, because of a refusal to believe the danger is real. Conditioned themselves further by Mockingbird media to dismiss whistleblowers as fanatics and conspiracy theory kooks. See no evil, hear none, speak none, smell none. Then, the kids are lost.

Kaneki05 · Answer

Hmm we don't kill people for been witches when there clearly not. We don't believe floods are caused by gods. We don't go around saying all mental health problems are demons/possessions. I could go on but a smart person would get my point. If anything were the least brainwashed.

Finchie40 · Answer

Social media played a big part of it for sure by them growing up with being surrounded by smart phones etc. On top of all the drama that is in this world today with Corona and all that stupid shit that has been occurring this Generation is pretty much doomed

Adam1978 · Answer

The problem now isn't that there is more stupid people but that it's encouraging with social media. Stupid people in the old days hand no followers they where shamed and laught at. And you know full well that some people become what the inspire. So we get a horrible generation of misfits, new wave feminism and other moronic and illthought idealism spreading through the ranks of young people. It's pack mentality, you don't want to be the smart person who reject it, if you get bullied if you do.

BeenThereLovedIt · Answer

ASeems to me it's the millenial underclass, the ones who came of age after the OWS movement. I think they just got lost in the social media sphere. You can tell that most of them now are more interested in becoming an "influencer" or straight up attention whore than previous peers.

The good news is that gen Z is much wiser to the social and political manipulation, but don't judge by what you see here.

Andres77 · Answer

Because life has been made so convenient for this generation and they've never had to worry about food or shelter or water... their minds are on frivolous things and since they don't have to worry about basic needs they focus on serving themselves to the Nth degree.

FilmGuy93 · Answer

They and we've been taught from a very young age to trust authority implicitly. It's really shocking how blindly trusting people our age are though. They don't believe the big government could/would hurt them because of laws. They just haven't had experiences with authority figures abusing them.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Anyone who doesn't agree with you politically in your opinion is brainwashed and easily manipulated so. . . that isn't a big stretch

Dargil · Answer

Government schools taught by union teachers and administrators applied propaganda from the 60's.
Their only source of information is corrupt social media and the newz media.
Hollywood has played a part.
This generation are aimless sheep who believe they are entitled to everything.

Ez-Bri-Z · Answer

Pretty sure they are actually thinking for themselves and are not indoctrinated by the media of both fox and msnbc like the older generations who grew up on TV.

hi_it_is_me123 · Answer

The people who think social media brainwash anyone are using the same argument about video games that brainwash or influence anyone. So it is a stupid argument. I dont that kids are brainwashed. They have any tool like internet, books etc to reasarch unlike the young people in the past. By the way majority of americans are religious. People like you talk about brainwashing only when it is not about religion etc

Jersey2 · Answer

The media has become biased. In the past you had a reliable media and therefore a source of truth. Now it is a source of lies and propaganda for whichever side they support. When there isn’t a reliable source of truth then young people will believe whatever is popular or appeals to them.

KieranByrne · Answer

Cigarettes and alcohol brainwashed a very high percent of the world population, now look at vaping!

Personally I hate the way I live, I would choose rich lifestyle, personal hobby, or someone I want to be with, unfortunately I have to work for a living!

It is laziness, passed down by generation's of misinformation, or being td how 'Life' is or should be from a very young age!

The easiest mind to control is the mind of a child!

Recurrence · Answer

Kids are wired to trust adults and what they say. So the problem is with what the adults tell them

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Easy its because children are raised by schools instead of parents. The entire point of feminism from the elites point of view was to get the mother out of the home. Adapter that they can use yhe school system to program children however they want. Basically first you get the women , then go the children, so go the men.

Mr_Dangerous · Answer

Its news and social media, they find a way to play on emotions and educators encourage to make decisions based on feelings. Snowflakes get created because of other snowflakes. Sad yet simple. You asking this question, shows us all you're old school. Old school is always good, my old man said.

Quigly · Answer

Boomers grew up on Television and never questioned anything. They watched the MSM religiously. Gen x grew up on music and wanted nothing to do with their parents tv.

Which Is how Donald Trump got elected and why Gen X is the most hated Generation By MSM morons.

SubieGirl18 · Answer

Speaking of... have you head this song? https://youtu. be/zCBNwGHPZ2M I am with you 100% I am ashamed of my generation... however to answer your question..  Social media...

BillyBalls · Answer

Back in the the 1960s and 1970s, the television was dubbed the "Boob Tube" because of it mesmerising effect on viewers.

Today computers and cell phones have replaced the TV.

Kids spend hours playing video games and posting selfies.

I would say a large percentage of kids are brain dead.

TrueConfection · Answer

Because schools have stopped teaching critical thinking skills and are teaching kids that "group think" is the only acceptable form of ideas, opinions, preferences, or even feelings.

RoccRaider24 · Answer

Honestly thats happened to every generation. But this generation has so much available to them. I think the antidote for that is if the parents would provide them with something meaningful to thrive for some values and a moral compass.

Anonymous · Answer

The mainstream media is very powerful in its ability to control people's beliefs, especially young, impressionable people.

In the last couple of decades, the media (both sides of the aisle) has gone much, much further than ever before in abusing that power to control and divide Americans. The current generation is a product of that.

PinkMichae · Answer

Unfortunately it's not just kids that get brainwashed.

libsaretards · Answer

It is so easy to access information, including false and misleading information. Combine that with schools trying to push political agendas as early as elementary school and it is easy (and sad) to see.

GreenLanternI0I · Answer

How? through extensive and long term social engineering. Scumbags at the top have been working on this project for almost 70 years and they have succeeded, flawlessly.

Caunsos · Answer

Typically people the that throw the terms like brainwashed and manipulation so freely and so widely are usually making uses of misinformation and thought contorl tactics or the victim of those tactics. Which are you?

Taylah9 · Answer

Lol this generation? In comparison to what? The 70s or 80s weren't that way at all right? 🙄😂

Sarahr123 · Answer

Im Gen Z, so are my siblings and we have Gen X parents. Our parent’s generation were the shittiest parents.

Wgatap999 · Answer

It's the far left it's all the bullshit that they're coming up with putting it in schools and trying to fuck the world up

loveslongnails · Answer

Too much bullshit social media influence, for one. Mob rule peer pressure. Schools have shifted from teaching kids "HOW" to think to "WHAT" to think. And for some, it's just plain bad parenting.

Anonymous · Answer

I really don't think so!

Current generation kids know Santa isn't real, most of them question everything whatever you tell them, you can't easily make them believe in religion.

I believed in Santa upto the age 10 then I realised about the lies I was told. Then after few years I became an adult.

Ninaface · Answer

It's sad. People just listen to the group instead of thinking for themselves. They didn't do enough reading. Gen z is bad but millennials are even worse.

Anonymous · Answer

The schools are doing it intentionally the way they did in Russia 100 years ago. Read 1984.

Seinna · Answer

It's not just kids, it's their parents too. I'd say too much tv.

Lori11 · Answer

We grew with the internet. We are kinda stupid tbh.

AngelMegumin · Answer

Kids are generally easily influenced. In the XXI century the amount of data simply became bigger.

Wester1967 · Answer

You actually mean, why aren't these kids acting like good little Nazis. I can tell you. I grew up in Naziville and Naziville is boring as fk.

CaptainSmartass · Answer

The media and schools have been taken over by leftist snowflakes, who have become emboldened enough to brainwash impressionable kids totally unchallenged. Simples...

Guido · Answer

Because they believe everything idiots post on social media and not the actual facts from legitimate sources. Every post on social media should be prefaced with the words, "It is my opinion, not fact that,..

Hypnos0929 · Answer

It isn't. If anything this generation is prone to questioning authorities to the extreme and pushing for their own political influences and beliefs. Gay marriage wouldn't be a thing if the previous generations had their way

Anonymous · Answer

It’s based on human psychology. I also think the food we eat now is dumbing us as a population down so we are more easily susceptible.

How did this generation of kids become so brainwashed and easily manipulated?

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