This way of thinking is similar to a reverse great man theory. Like an evil man theory or something. That people are somehow entirely in control of the programming that gets put into their brains. That some choose to be evil, and others choose not to be. That is not the case clearly. The circumstances of ones birth are not irrelevant, and to say they are is ridiculous.

Indoctrination is a system for getting people to think a certain way. This system controls the material conditions of targets to shape their development. Those of us who don’t subscribe to those same beliefs arent somehow immune to it, and didn’t break the programming due to some sort of superior cognitive ability.

The reason some people don’t fall into it is because of their material conditions. Something in their life disrupted the propagandizing system, and caused a reaction in them that slowly grew into them seeing past it. It’s all based on the material conditions someone is in, and those have natural variations because no system is perfect.

It’s not a coincidence that most people who become anti-capitalists in the west are not wealthy, or have some other distinguishing feature that exposed the contradictions to them.

So while yes some people don’t end up getting brainwashed it’s not really because there’s anything different about how their brain works, or about them as a person. It’s just the luck of the draw.

I like to think that even if i was born rich, and exactly what society expected of me, and had a great life that I’d still be a communist, but if i look at it objectively i probably wouldnt be.

The world is shaped by its conditions, and so are the people in it. Now can some of those conditions include certain mental differences like increased empathy, or decreased empathy caused by genetic differences? Maybe. Or that could just be shaped by your conditions too, and learned over time.

Either way i think it’s important to note that people are simply products of their environment for the most part. So it’s entirely valid to say Israelis in general are genocidal freaks because that’s the environment they’ve created there. The statistical outliers are simply caused by the systemic brainwashing within Israel itself not being perfect. Something about those peoples conditions gave them an opportunity to see through it. Perhaps even gave them the ability to do so too.

Now that doesn’t mean we should say it’s out of their control. And they somehow arent concious of what theyre doing. They are. People who have been so thoroughly corrupted by genocidal and fascist ideology are like cancerous cells. Even if they are still technically human they must be excised for the safety of the whole. We can recognize though that they are simply corrupted, and that in some cases they can be saved. While still punishing them for their crimes, and having a 0 tolerance policy for that behavior.

It’s important though to recognize the root cause of things like the mass psychosis of a state like Israel. Because that is the only way we prevent it from repeating. And we can use the same methods for controlling someones conditions, and turning them into a fascist to instead turn them into a decent, and kind person. This is a large part of what China’s cultural revolution did. It restructured society to make it so the very culture was more likely to produce people who could function in the new society. Failing to do this successfully, and letting old cultural artifacts, and old institutions that breed fascist thought to continue existing would be dooming yourself to repeating history.