Socialization, indoctrination and conditioning

Could this be a sort of social engineering Ola?

There's a difference between natural development/change (mutation, transformation) and artificial development (wilful manipulation).

Our DNA makes who we are. And that form of mutation (our DNA) is natural.

The printing press resulted in great social change. Greater than the inventors of it could ever have dreamed off. So that too is a form of natural change. (Our DNA unlooked the unnatural feudal repression.)

In the before time the church preached in latin, knowing that the population couldn't understand what the clergy was preaching. That is indirect control. A form of manipulation. And it works well, still to this day. Most people does not recognize this as a form of control.
(What works even better than that today is fear regarding a supposed afterlife and claiming some influence over it.)

A Monarchy (and most other political systems) uses fear (of punishment) as a tool for control. This is direct control. This does not work well anymore. An educated population will not accept this kind of treatment.

These examples show natural change and how wilful manipulation tries to stop it.
When does wilful manipulation push for unnatural change? When it wants to go back.
- Conservatism.

The feudal system used fear to control and the capitalist society later exploited this. Now when the citizens are learning and doing away with old dogma and punitive doctrines, questions regarding the legimitacy of the existing order/system are being voiced.
So for the establishment religion is now more important than ever.


It's all about POWER, isn't it?
Freedom is personal choice.
Power is control over others choice.
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