A Comment On The Bullsh*t Coming Out Of Politics

Could this be an accurate state of affairs in our political methodogy: the Author published this in 1994. And, Okay this is not *exactly* a political post but more of a viewpoint on the unending bullsh*t that is politics.

"When is Learning Not Indoctrination?
Indoctrination may be called ‘the instilling of attitudes without the saving grace of digesting them’. Indoctrination is not what some people claim, that is to say the more rapid accomplishment of something which ordinarily takes a culture many years to achieve.
What makes a ‘digested’ system more acceptable than an imposed one?
Two things. First, a greater time-scale and conditions of freedom give an opportunity for rejection. Second, where there is a time-scale measured in years – and where there is opportunity for dissent and discussion, there is room for modification.
Inducing people to believe things – and then, usually, turning around and saying that this belief, because it is belief, is sacred or even inevitable – is the hallmark of indoctrination.
Putting ideas forward, and giving people information which enables them to test these (including testing them against other ideas) spells freedom and education, both of which are distorted or abolished by indoctrinators.
Two things prevent the foregoing being widely known at the present time:-
1. The discovery, certainly in the ‘West’ and the modern world, is recent. It will take time to percolate.
2. When the facts are presented, they are an embarrassment to those who, examining their own attitudes, realise that, in certain areas, they are themselves victims of indoctrination.
The Commanding Self
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Clearly, with all the bullsh*t coming out of both sides of our poitical parties, we see that most of it is an attempt to indoctrinate with it.  Our immediate emotional response is the target of this attempt, not our reasoning mind, it's our fears that are being played with, our underlying unreasoning anger at the injustices levied against us, and, a teaching that it is okay to hate.
But the effort to stop, think, reason, look for the falsity of that indoctrination has been washed out of the minds and hearts of many, many of us.  Can it be that only those fresh out of college/university still retain some of this ability and somehow learned in spite of the 'party, party' atmosphere that seems to have choked our institutions of higher learning?  Witness the various 'Occupy' movements that sprang up from our educated youth - they started shouting back with digested thought and pushed back with real activity.  This is not the sheepishness of those who were satisfied with being indoctrinated into a corporate/religious/two party political belief system, no this seems to me to be an accelerated system of questioning and rejecting commercialed beliefs.  It's an ability to recognize bullshit when you see it and shouting it out.