Mike, since you opened the door and led right into it......
I was actually thinking of starting a new thread on this topic but here goes.....
Indoctrination is systematically used by intelligence agencies, militaries, education systems, religious institutions, and cults across the world (because it works).
We can thank societies’ leaders for this great invention!
COMPONENTS:
1. Recruit – cause individual to donate major amounts of time and effort to the controlling environment, often through deception
2. Isolate – restrict access to external/competing influences/ideas
3. Control Access – create dependency by controlling access to basic needs
4. Brainwash ((a) behaviour control (through rewards/punishments), (b) thought control (cause the individual to intensely doubt their own thoughts/actions, destroy their ability to make independent decisions, and uncritically accept an alternative value), (c) emotion control (create internal crisis in the individual through affection, group pressure, guilt-induction, and guilt-relief), and (d) information control (discourage, monitor, filter, or cut external communication, and replace with propaganda)
5. Institutionalize – cause individual to make a permanent commitment to remain in, depend on, and practice the changed value system.
https://www.theurbancountry.com/2005...f-society.html