Think you haven’t been BRAINWASHED? Think again.

From the moment you were born you have been continuously programmed by external influences such as society, your parents, the media, religion, school, family, friends, television, websites, social media, trends, and fashion. All these outside influences have been relentlessly barraging you with their brainwashing propaganda since the moment you exited the womb. This has shaped you into who you are today.

These external informational forces have determined your beliefs, morals, fears, hopes, and your dreams… almost your entire personality is dictated by this base programming instilled in you by others which ultimately determines your personality and life choices. You are not based on you at all but on outside influences. And the thing is you don’t know that you’re brainwashed, it wouldn’t be very effective brainwashing if you knew you were brainwashed would it? I mean that’s the whole point. So how can you know if you’re truly thinking for yourself? Only through using logic and reason, that’s the only way to separate fact from fiction, truth from lies. It’s time to ditch the brainwashing of a sick culture and use logic and reason to become a freethinker.

We’re going to look at five different types of people and see how their minds work. As we do so think about which type you are. The first type of person is called other-directed and these types of people are obsessed with being liked by their friends and peers. They’re consumed with what others think about them. They have to know what everyone around them is saying and doing so they can say and do the same things and fit in. They’re fixated on the latest fashions, with what’s in and what’s out … because they are desperate to be in and not out themselves. They suffer from a permanent anxiety that they’re going fuck up, or say the wrong thing, and suddenly they won’t be cool anymore and they’ll be excluded from the group. They can’t cope with being rejected, with being condemned to social isolation. They are often desperately lonely and have low self-confidence. These kinds of people have been brainwashed by others and the external pressures to conform.

Let’s look at tradition-directed people. These types of people are obsessed with traditions, their community and what their elders tell them that they should be doing. Their lives revolve around maintaining an ancient tradition. The clearest example is those people who follow a mainstream religion. They are terrified of deviating from their ancient “holy” book that has no relevance to the modern world. Keeping their old traditions going is the most important thing for them. It defines their lives. They can’t think for themselves. They think only in the ways dictated to them by old books, dead prophets, and their elders who indoctrinate them into their irrational cult. They’re archaic traditions have shaped their lives and without them, they would be completely different people. These kinds of people have been brainwashed by old decaying traditions.

Now we come to inner-directed people and they’re the type formed by inner values acquired while they were growing up. They’re obsessed with obeying their parents, they’ve internalized all their parents’ values, and they’re always guided by the inner moral compass that their parents instilled in them. They’ll go against their friends, their peers and their community to be true to their values. But they will never go against their parents. They don’t think for themselves because they are carbon copies of their parents, and haven’t been able to find their own way in life. But they’re confident and stable because the values they live by make them feel grounded. These kinds of people have been brainwashed by the inner values instilled in them by their parents as they grew up.
There are two other types of people that are different. Those who are anomic are people who can’t cope with laws and regulations. They’re always on the margins, always struggling to find a place, always getting into trouble. They can’t hold down a job and they can’t keep relationships and they continuously go from one bad situation to the next. They have no stability at all. They often become criminals, alcoholics, and addicts.

Finally we come to those who are not anomic, not inner-directed, not other-directed, and they are not tradition directed. These types of people are autonomous. Autonomous individuals are self-creating and self-defining. They make their own way in life. They don’t fear being ostracized. They don’t give a fuck about trying to please the crowd. They couldn’t care less for decrepit traditions, and they find people obsessed with their parents to be very strange.

Which of these five types do you belong to? Really, don’t lie to yourself, look deep within your mind and be honest.

All these types of people form their own groups and cultures and they very often hate the cultures of the other types. The important point is that all of these different cultures are forcing themselves on you, in an attempt to brainwash you to go along with them, trying to make you become propagators of their ideas. A culture cannot succeed unless it turns you into an enthusiastic replicator and reproducer of its ideas. Each culture works out all sorts of ways to convert you from a person into its tool, its instrument.

Look at Islam. It makes you pray five times a day in the direction of Mecca, it makes you plan going to Mecca on pilgrimage, it tells you what things are forbidden and which are acceptable. It makes you fast all day during Holy Month. It dictates how you spend your time, what you do, what you wear, what you eat, and even what you think. For a Muslim, Islam is on their mind all the time. Their only way to escape is to become an apostate and abandon everything they have known but if they do that, they’ll be disowned by their family and might even be killed. Similar things apply to Orthodox Judaism, and Christian Fundamentalism. Buddhist monks sacrifice everything to follow their Buddhist beliefs. The Buddha himself walked out on his wife and newborn baby in order to sit under a tree and meditate. The Hindu culture imposes a brutal caste system on those who follow it, at the bottom of this system are the outcasts, which the Hindus call the Dalits, the Untouchables, they get all the worst jobs, like cleaning toilets and moving corpses.

Western consumer culture turns everyone into mindless shoppers defined by what objects they own. They have to keep up with the latest trends and fashions. Free-market capitalist culture turns everyone into commodities to be bought and sold. People are depersonalized and dehumanized. They themselves become commercial objects. As soon as they cease to have value they are discarded and left on the scrapheap.

So you’ve found yourself in this battlefield of cultures, all of which are trying to impose themselves on you and force you to obey them and propagate their values and their ideas. You didn’t ask for any of this. This isn’t who you are. So stop letting them control you. See through their bullshit. Break their brainwashing. Smash the norms of society. Explore your true self rather than the fake persona you wear in order to be acceptable to society. Become the best version of yourself. Become autonomous. Ditch the herd mentality. Ditch mainstream religion. Find yourself. Become yourself. Become an autonomous Mind, free of the conditioning of society and its vile cultures.

For you to live, these cultures must die. You need a brand new culture for your world, one that will give rise to a brand new humanity, to higher, self-actualizing humans.

Five-year-old boys and girls both think their own gender is fine. But at age six, girls already start to see themselves as less innately talented than boys. Gender differences have emerged and your misogynistic male dominated culture has done its dirty work.

You need a culture that teaches people to be rational and logical, to be clear and critical thinkers. Those that call us brainwashers are absurd. If you call showing people how to use critical thinking brainwashing then fine, if you think it’s brainwashing to show people that they should become themselves and reject oppressive religions and cultures that promote hatred, racism, sexism, and violence then fine. If that’s how you define brainwashing that’s your problem. We encourage people to think for themselves, to use logic and reason on everything and that includes using it on what we have to say. Logic and reason is the only way to be free of cultural brainwashing and to become an autonomous, self creating free thinker. Your world desperately needs a positive culture that allows people to become strong, autonomous individuals. It’s time to act. It’s time to change your society. It’s time to get off your ass and do something.

With a different culture, you would be an entirely different person. This sick culture is damaging you. A positive culture is one that focuses on giving you the freedom you need to express, create and become who you truly are. Imagine a humanity full of human beings that have become the best versions of themselves. Don’t you want to live in a society where everyone has made themselves into something wondrous, a community of gods and goddesses? Let’s make it happen.

We need to transform this world. We are in this physical dimension for a reason and we have a duty, an obligation, to make this world the best it can be, which means ensuring that everyone in it is fully free to learn, explore, and grow, and that we are all helping each other do so. This is exactly what a Hyperian system will do.

We want to build the best of all possible worlds, and the best of all possible humanities. We want the universe itself to grow and prosper. At the moment, all of your world’s resources go into optimizing life for the rich elite rulers, while everyone else is left to decay and putrefy. Your planet, as it is, is backwards and disgusting. It has often been the worst of all possible worlds, punctuated only occasionally by less vile systems. Your world has never had a genuinely good, intelligent, and enlightened system.

Mark Twain said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” The time for action has come. Stop making excuses. Change yourself, change your society, change your world. What are you waiting for? No one’s going to do it for you. It’s up to you, it’s up to us. The time is now.

Ad Astra. To the stars.