My daughter is 2. Everything we do with her is either indoctrination or play; she doesn’t have enough language yet for the learning-begets-learning we naturally assume with older kids and adults.
I was in the military, which is probably the most successful employer of indoctrination in the US. I believe the key to this success rests with the clarity of the indoctrination’s purpose and effectiveness: the purpose is to keep everyone on the same page, because if we aren’t our people will die (where our people means the unit). Indoctrination is the only tool available for this because there isn’t time for sharing all the relevant information or doing analysis.
I plan to capture these benefits for my daughter by being specific about the fact that I’m using indoctrination and why indoctrination is a good tool for the situation instead of how we think or feel about it, when she inevitably has questions.
The bearing I think this has on the question of mind viruses is that she will know what indoctrination looks like when she sees it. Further, she will have expectations of purpose and impact; political indoctrination fails these tests, which I hope will trigger rejection (or at least forestall overcommitment).
My daughter is 2. Everything we do with her is either indoctrination or play; she doesn’t have enough language yet for the learning-begets-learning we naturally assume with older kids and adults.
I was in the military, which is probably the most successful employer of indoctrination in the US. I believe the key to this success rests with the clarity of the indoctrination’s purpose and effectiveness: the purpose is to keep everyone on the same page, because if we aren’t our people will die (where our people means the unit). Indoctrination is the only tool available for this because there isn’t time for sharing all the relevant information or doing analysis.
I plan to capture these benefits for my daughter by being specific about the fact that I’m using indoctrination and why indoctrination is a good tool for the situation instead of how we think or feel about it, when she inevitably has questions.
The bearing I think this has on the question of mind viruses is that she will know what indoctrination looks like when she sees it. Further, she will have expectations of purpose and impact; political indoctrination fails these tests, which I hope will trigger rejection (or at least forestall overcommitment).