the best brainwashing though is the series of apes becoming neanderthals and then people. When I was young I really believed that, it was religiously (lol) in Time, Life and Readers Digest, National Geographic etc. It was gospel. Then I discovered it was an (Darwinian) scientist's impression (theory lol) of how we "evolved". I really prefer hearing Alice in Wonderland, it's more plausible.
