Learning from the Past - Brainwashing
While we were learning about World War II an obvious question came up when we learned of Hitler's atrocities, why would people follow him. We watched a movie entitled the Wave to answer this.
In the movie, an experiment is conducted in America where a history teacher attempts to build a Hitler-like following from his students. The students go along with it, and quickly give up their individualism in order to join the teacher's movement which is called "the Wave". This continues to escalate until members start threatening nob-members.
What the point of the movie is, is to show how easy it is to just give in to preachings of others. Especially if you get brainwashed from a young age.
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/articles/effectiveorganization.aspx
What's interesting is that this still happens today.
Kids are brainwashed to say, do, even believe certain things. They are brainwashed to such a degree that they lose all individuality. They are made into an army that does anything they are commanded to do, because they were brainwashed from a young age. The techniques used on kids today, mimic those used by Hitler to brainwash the Hitler Youth into believing Nazi ideology, hating Jews, and being able to even go as far as killing for the Fuhrer.
How could this happen you say?
Who could possibly do this?
Why has nobody stopped this?
The kids I'm talking about can be seen in this video:
This is brainwashing at its best. Even at their age the kids are already brainwashed and it will only get worse as they age if they keep being exposed to this brainwashing.
The sad truth is that the lesson, apparently, that we have learned from the war and Hitler, is not that we shouldn't brainwash people because this can allow them to commit atrocities, but rather we learned how to more effectively brainwash people, especially children.
Hopefully, future generations will be able to see this as wrong. Meanwhile, let's just hope this 'army' won't follow in the Hitler Youth's footsteps.
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