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Comment by zanny | Hacker News Reader

Mainstream media bombardment and constant advertising harassment do a pretty good job of mind control, though.

Also, culture is the best mind control. Raise people with a mind set the way you want it and you never have to do anything directly, because they already are siding with you even through cognative dissonance.

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Public schools are far more significant than the media.

You could be right. Or it could be the exact opposite. Or something else. It doesn't matter. Fundamentally we do it to ourselves, because we're herd/pack/social animals. We shun anyone too different from the tribe, it's in our DNA. Because of that, we are highly evolved to fit in.

Yeah, we're self aware and all that, we have choices, but what we generally choose to do is identify with some group and hate opposing groups. It's what we do.

The chimpanzees are laughing at us.

In England and Wales, truancy is a criminal offence for parents.[6] Since 1998, a police officer of or above the rank of superintendent may direct that for a specified time in a specified area a police officer may remove a child believed to be absent from a school without authority to that school or to another designated place....

It's not that widely known, but you can remove your child from state education as a parent and teach them yourself. You just have to tell the local authority you're doing so in writing.

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