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Here's a guide on how to brainwash your hooman: Brainwashing is NOT about deconstructing the hooman's existing mental model and creating/maintaining your desired faux world. That's too much work.

This is a commonly misunderstanding of how propaganda works. Propaganda acts as a CRUTCH for thinking, it doesn't REPLACE thinking. Instead of FILLING the hooman mind you only need disable the capacity for QUESTIONING.

Disabling critical thinking is far easier than you might think. Hoomans are constantly looking for happiness outside of themselves and so are desperate for external validation.

What makes this sooo much easier is that this often manifests as a desire for "Freedom". Just like how great truths always have an equally true opposite, freedom looks VERRRYY much like its opposite of "Self Delusion"

It's incredibly easy to sell self-delusion when they're so eager to buy. You can even sell an empty box labeled "NOT self delusion" and many will eat it up! From the hooman perspective, it's like a HUGE load has been lifted from their tired anxious souls. SELL this feature!!

This obviously won't work for smarter hoomans though since they'll go "Hmm... looks like a trap. Some forms of suffering ennobles the human soul." The trick here is NOT to try and make the box prettier with more subterfuge. Instead, erode the hooman's courage.