I’ve become very skeptical of the concept of “brainwashing.” Over the past few months this skepticism has boiled over into open and explicit disagreement with even well-meaning pushers within the Marxist-Leninist corner. I often find it difficult to explain concisely why it is…
i fundamentally disagree with the notion that westerners understand anything about macroeconomics and geopolitics. at the population level we are not educated we are not literate.
Westerners understand extreme basics, which does distort the bigger picture. It’s really easy to understand a war for oil, it’s a little more complicated to understand war as an economic engine for the military-industrial complex, but you’ll start losing them when it gets more complicated: domino theory and Monroe doctrine and underdevelopment and imperialism etc etc.
i fundamentally disagree with the notion that westerners understand anything about macroeconomics and geopolitics. at the population level we are not educated we are not literate.
Westerners understand extreme basics, which does distort the bigger picture. It’s really easy to understand a war for oil, it’s a little more complicated to understand war as an economic engine for the military-industrial complex, but you’ll start losing them when it gets more complicated: domino theory and Monroe doctrine and underdevelopment and imperialism etc etc.