>If you are a result of your experience, then you too are a result of "brainwashing".

Here's a hint. Brainwashing is not the result of contemplating your own existence, or researching many positions and mixing and matching until you create one that represents you the best it can.

Brainwashing comes from standing in rows looking at a man in a funny hat in the front of the over elaborate room, putting symbols on your forhead in ash and reciting 2000 year old poems that are really ,really boring convicing you that there is some supreme creator who is the only source of hope and love in your reality.

When that fictional character is no where to be found, the brainwashing takes a turn for the worse.