我们都知道，在近几十年来全球经济一体化，文化多元化的大背景下，世界各地存在着多种宗教信仰，这些信仰包括宣扬神爱世人的基督教，教导行善积德的佛教，崇尚道法自然的道教，敬畏自然万物的神道教等等，而此类宗教信仰往往有几个共同点，一是致力于引导人们追求内心的宽容与善念，二是组织透明，教义透明，可以自由延伸与发展不同教派，信众可以自由加入与退出，这种无害的信仰往往也受到文明国家的法律保护。
至于邪教的定义，几乎可以说是与宗教完全背道而驰，他们往往致力于宣扬极端思想并以此洗脑信众，强调个人崇拜，教主被神化，拥有至高无上的权威，信众必须遵循教义要求去仇视指定的群体。同时几乎所有邪教一律对宗教与普世价值抱有强烈的排斥性，它们声称只有自己才是唯一真理，其余都是异端邪说。同时邪教往往采取秘密封闭式运作，禁止信众接触外界信息，甚至长期对信众强制隔离洗脑，通过恐吓，孤立，诱导等手段对成员进行精神控制，从而使他们丧失独立思考与逻辑推理的能力，成为”让恨谁就恨谁，让杀谁就杀谁”的提线木偶。
其实懂的人看到这里应该都感觉似曾相识了，没错，中共的统治逻辑，其实就是典型的邪教组织理念。而他们对中国人的洗脑手法说穿了其实和一般的邪教一样的简单粗暴。
首先我们应该给洗脑下定义，什么情况可以称之为洗脑呢？比如我在YouTube看反共视频，算不算被西方敌对势力洗脑？比如我的一位老师给我灌输他的小众思想，算不算洗脑？综合上面对邪教的定义，我认为洗脑应该同时具备三个不可或缺的特性，一是强制性，二是长期性，三是隔绝性。要认定是否是洗脑，我个人认为这三点缺一不可。
一，强制性，人民必须接受中共的思想灌输，中共的强制思想灌输要求每个人都接受它赋予的价值观与思想理念，久而久之便剥夺了人民独立思考的能力，同时它严厉惩罚一切公开反对思想灌输的异见人士，你还想不想毕业？想不想保住工作？想不想家人团聚？
二，长期性，洗脑不是一朝一夕的事，是需要重复不断的灌输，直到在人的大脑中打下不可磨灭的思想钢印，从而发自本能的去尊崇教主的神化和对教派的认同感。关于这点，每一个在中国长大的反贼想必都深有体会，从80，90后童年时期每天不间断播放的红色电影和歌曲，到从小学到初中语文教科书上先烈们”保家卫国”血洒疆场的感人事迹，再到高中与大学时期政治课上”伟大祖国”的热血历史，以及这些年遍地开花的”中老年特供版”谍战与抗日神剧，中国人的一生可谓是被中国360度无死角洗脑的一生。这一点我也认为是最重要的一点，试想就算是一条对你狺狺狂吠了三十年的狗，想必一般人多少也会有点感情，遑论是将自己包装成”人民救星”，”人民公仆”的中共呢？
三，隔绝性，这一点也尤为重要，正如先前所说，邪教普遍具有强烈的排他性，因为他们的教义往往既经不起逻辑推理，同时也反人性，所以必须将信众其他思想隔绝在外，禁止信众接触。因为多种思想教派必然会对人产生冲击，继而引发思考与讨论，而邪教充斥着谎言与暴论的极端思想在宗教与普世价值面前往往不堪一击。中共一早就洞悉并深谙其道，早早的建立起了长城防火墙，拒敌于国门之外，强化言论审查与信息封锁，确保了中国人民必须且只能接受中共二十年如一日的思想灌输。中国人一切关于人权，民主，乃至于普世价值的认知全部只能来源于中共的官方解释，中共不只是既当选手又当裁判，甚至直接禁止其他选手入场，将隔绝性这一点发挥的淋漓尽致。
综上，宗教信仰引导人们追求自由、真理与善良，而中共的统治手法不过是一套以谎言和恐惧为核心的典型邪教精神控制手段。它剥夺了人们的独立思考能力，封闭了思想的多元交流，其目的从来不是为了人民的福祉，而是与其他邪教一样，不过是为了维护少数人的权力。然而，这种建立在控制与虚假的基础上的体制，注定也会和其他邪教一样，在将来的某一天分崩离析。在信息化时代，思想的自由与真相的传播注定是最强大的力量。每个人的觉醒，都是瓦解精神枷锁的第一步；当人们开始追求真相，拥抱普世价值，历史必将再一次证明——任何违背人性与自由的体制，终将走向瓦解，而自由的曙光终将如期而至！
A brief discussion on the commonalities between cults and the CCP
We all know that in the context of global economic integration and cultural diversity in recent decades, there are many religious beliefs around the world. These beliefs include Christianity, which advocates God’s love for the world, Buddhism, which teaches good deeds, Taoism, which advocates the law of nature, and Shintoism, which respects all things in nature. Such religious beliefs often have several common points. One is that they are committed to guiding people to pursue inner tolerance and kindness. The other is that the organization is transparent, the doctrine is transparent, and different sects can be freely extended and developed. Believers can freely join and withdraw. This harmless belief is often protected by the laws of civilized countries.
As for the definition of cults, it can almost be said to be completely contrary to religion. They are often committed to promoting extreme ideas and brainwashing believers, emphasizing personal worship, and the leader is deified and has supreme authority. Believers must follow the doctrine to hate the designated group. At the same time, almost all cults have a strong rejection of religion and universal values. They claim that only they are the only truth, and the rest are heresy. At the same time, cults often operate in a secret and closed manner, prohibiting believers from contacting outside information, and even forcibly isolating and brainwashing believers for a long time. They use intimidation, isolation, induction and other means to control members’ minds, so that they lose the ability to think independently and reason logically, and become puppets who “hate whoever they are told to hate and kill whoever they are told to kill”.
In fact, those who understand should feel familiar when they see this. Yes, the ruling logic of the CCP is actually a typical cult organization concept. And their brainwashing methods for Chinese people are actually as simple and crude as ordinary cults.
First of all, we should define brainwashing. What situations can be called brainwashing? For example, if I watch anti-communist videos on YouTube, is it considered brainwashing by Western hostile forces? For example, if one of my teachers instills his niche ideas in me, is it considered brainwashing? Based on the definition of cults, I think brainwashing should have three indispensable characteristics at the same time. One is compulsory, the second is long-term, and the third is isolation. To determine whether it is brainwashing, I personally think that these three points are indispensable.
First, it is mandatory. People must accept the CCP’s ideological indoctrination. The CCP’s mandatory ideological indoctrination requires everyone to accept the values and ideas it has given them. Over time, it deprives people of their ability to think independently. At the same time, it severely punishes all dissidents who openly oppose ideological indoctrination. Do you still want to graduate? Do you want to keep your job? Do you want to reunite with your family?
Second, it is long-term. Brainwashing is not a matter of one day or one night. It requires repeated indoctrination until an indelible ideological stamp is stamped in people’s brains, so that they instinctively respect the deification of the leader and identify with the sect. Every anti-communist who grew up in China must have a deep understanding of this. From the red movies and songs that were played every day during the childhood of the post-80s and post-90s, to the touching deeds of the martyrs who “protected the country” and shed blood on the battlefield in the Chinese textbooks from elementary school to junior high school, to the passionate history of the “great motherland” in the political classes in high school and college, and the “special edition for middle-aged and elderly people” spy war and anti-Japanese dramas that have blossomed everywhere in recent years, the life of the Chinese people can be said to be a life of 360-degree brainwashing by China. I also think this is the most important point. Imagine that even if it is a dog that has been barking at you for thirty years, most people will have some feelings for it, let alone the CCP that packages itself as the “savior of the people” and “people’s servant”?
Third, isolation, this is also particularly important. As mentioned earlier, cults generally have a strong exclusivity, because their doctrines often cannot withstand logical reasoning and are also anti-human, so other ideas of believers must be isolated and believers must be prohibited from contacting. Because various schools of thought will inevitably have an impact on people, and then trigger thinking and discussion, and the extreme thoughts of cults filled with lies and violence are often vulnerable to religion and universal values. The CCP has long understood and understood this, and has long established the Great Wall Firewall to keep the enemy out of the country, strengthen speech censorship and information blockade, and ensure that the Chinese people must and can only accept the CCP’s ideological indoctrination for 20 years. All the Chinese people’s cognition of human rights, democracy, and even universal values can only come from the official explanation of the CCP. The CCP is not only a contestant and a referee, but also directly prohibits other contestants from entering the venue, which fully demonstrates the isolation.
In summary, religious beliefs guide people to pursue freedom, truth and kindness, and the CCP’s ruling methods are nothing more than a typical cult mind control method with lies and fear as the core. It deprives people of their independent thinking ability and closes off the diversified exchange of ideas. Its purpose has never been for the welfare of the people, but like other cults, it is just to maintain the power of a few people. However, this system based on control and falsehood is destined to fall apart one day in the future, just like other cults. In the information age, freedom of thought and the spread of truth are destined to be the most powerful forces. Everyone’s awakening is the first step to dismantling spiritual shackles; when people begin to pursue the truth and embrace universal values, history will once again prove that any system that violates human nature and freedom will eventually collapse, and the dawn of freedom will eventually arrive as expected!
