前回取り上げたReader's Digestの "Mom's Wall-Sign Wisdom" からの引用文の後に出て来た個所からの引用です。
When I was a kid, my mom would comb my hair, and it was always knotty and it always hurt, and she'd say, "Beauty feels no pain." Which is truly a Jedi mind trick of gaslighting and dangerous patriarchal indoctrination.
"Jedi mind trick" は辞書には説明はないだろうと思いWikipediaを見ると、次の説明がありました。
From the Star Wars films, the first of which—Star Wars—was released in 1977. In the films, members of the Jedi order are able to use a metaphysical power called the Force to implant suggestions in other people’s minds to induce them to act as the Jedi wish.
A mental feat such as apparently inducing someone to act a certain way or reading someone's mind, achieved as if by magic or telepathy.: "It's the Fourth Law of Magic," I said. "You aren't allowed to control the mind of another human. But … hell, it's of the first things a lot of these stupid kids try—the old Jedi mind trick. Sometimes they start with maybe getting homework overlooked by a teacher or convincing their parents to buy them a car.
なるほで、それではその後に出てきた "indoctrination" も同じような意味に違いない。
・Oxford English Dictionary: the act or process of forcing somebody to accept a particular belief or set of beliefs and not allowing them to consider any others: political/religious indoctrination
・Collins Dictionary: the process of teaching a person or group of people systematically to accept doctrines, esp uncritically: Yes, ever since he came home from the camp this summer, that indoctrination camp, worse than military school.
・Vocabulary.com: Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. Your sister's orientation at her new job might seem more like indoctrination if she comes home robotically reciting her corporate employee handbook.
Indoctrination often refers to religious ideas, when you're talking about a religious environment that doesn't let you question or criticize those beliefs. The Latin word for "teach," doctrina is the root of indoctrinate, and originally that's just what it meant. By the 1830s it came to mean the act of forcing ideas and opinions on someone who isn't allowed to question them.
When I was a kid, my mom would comb my hair, and it was always knotty and it always hurt, and she'd say, "Beauty feels no pain." Which is truly a Jedi mind trick of gaslighting and dangerous patriarchal indoctrination.
"Jedi mind trick" は辞書には説明はないだろうと思いWikipediaを見ると、次の説明がありました。
From the Star Wars films, the first of which—Star Wars—was released in 1977. In the films, members of the Jedi order are able to use a metaphysical power called the Force to implant suggestions in other people’s minds to induce them to act as the Jedi wish.
A mental feat such as apparently inducing someone to act a certain way or reading someone's mind, achieved as if by magic or telepathy.: "It's the Fourth Law of Magic," I said. "You aren't allowed to control the mind of another human. But … hell, it's of the first things a lot of these stupid kids try—the old Jedi mind trick. Sometimes they start with maybe getting homework overlooked by a teacher or convincing their parents to buy them a car.
なるほで、それではその後に出てきた "indoctrination" も同じような意味に違いない。
・Oxford English Dictionary: the act or process of forcing somebody to accept a particular belief or set of beliefs and not allowing them to consider any others: political/religious indoctrination
・Collins Dictionary: the process of teaching a person or group of people systematically to accept doctrines, esp uncritically: Yes, ever since he came home from the camp this summer, that indoctrination camp, worse than military school.
・Vocabulary.com: Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. Your sister's orientation at her new job might seem more like indoctrination if she comes home robotically reciting her corporate employee handbook.
Indoctrination often refers to religious ideas, when you're talking about a religious environment that doesn't let you question or criticize those beliefs. The Latin word for "teach," doctrina is the root of indoctrinate, and originally that's just what it meant. By the 1830s it came to mean the act of forcing ideas and opinions on someone who isn't allowed to question them.
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