Social Programming Quotes

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

At an early age, somehow we're programmed to view other females as threats.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?