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Indoctrinate Me If You Dare

Indoctrinate me if you dare. Take my brain, all of my ideas, and stomp them to bits, prove they are wrong. Take your time, and bash them about, mercilessly and in an angry way. Coax me out of my comfort zone, shake me away from my theories and suspicions. Tell me what to think, what to believe, encourage me to study one agenda, a contradictory way. Convince me that your truth should be mine, that it is more powerful, and true than my own self-worth. Drag me kicking and clawing from my hiding place, from the safety of my own inner knowledge. Beat myself out of me if you have to, terrify me with your mad idea of sameness, and disbeliefs. Pour propaganda over my head, put subliminal clips into my I-pads, take over my brain, if you dare. Make me into the masses that worship you, make me a fervent follower, no longer believing in self, But in a greater good – your good, your truth, your ways, your majesty. Convince me of the rightfulness of your misogynist theories, help me block out the truth of myself. Show me a truth I never gleaned before, when I was sane, before you began to brainwash me. Mash my dendrites into a reluctant bloody submission. Come and get me. I wait for you, eagerly plotting my counter attack. Cluck. Cluck. Cluck. I am not kidding. Come and get me if you dare.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 9/9/2018 4:25:00 PM
Brilliant write... and if they dare try- I'd love to be a fly on the wall!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/10/2018 8:25:00 PM
So would hundreds of others. And you would all be smiling and laughing.
Date: 9/8/2018 4:05:00 PM
ah man, even the first (quick) read was a stun...have you been studying tai chi : )
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/9/2018 1:59:00 AM
I have not, but maybe I should?

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