[Koir]

What I personally get out of the original post of this "discussion" is the usual "Think what I do, believe what I do, don't make this about video games while I go off and talk about video games, don't disagree with me because you're wrong" type of forum statement.

Is telling people "The Media" (imagine the fingerquotes here) is brainwashing them a form of brainwashing? Seems like it to me.

To extend the metaphor beyond reasonable limits, if "the media" is brainwashing people, and the internet is part of "the media" does that mean that the superficially independant parts of it supposedly written by individuals not involved in "the media" are, in fact, not written by individuals at all, but "the media"?

Is there in truth no independant thought?