government indoctrination theme

The government uses its powers to indoctrinate individuals into a way of thinking. For example it may design school curricula so as to indoctrinate students into the virtue of the present governments pet ideology of the day.

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StoryLevelMotivation
movie: 1984 (1956) major The people of Oceania were subjected to constant indoctrination.
movie: Night Raiders (2021) major Young Waseese was taken to a military training academy where she, and all the other youths there, were blatantly indoctrinated to be unquestioningly loyal to the state.
movie: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) major The people of Oceania were subjected to constant indoctrination. Among other things, government propagandists were busy whipping the people up into a frenzy for war with the enemy state of Eurasia and East Asia.
movie: Rising Storm (1989) major The fundamentalist Christian government of the United States used various methods to indoctrinate the people under their rule, including the rewriting of history, mandatory church attendance, and mandatory viewing of dictator Reverend Jimmy Joe II's televised speeches.
movie: Starship Troopers (1997) major The Federation world government war propaganda and school indoctrination made people unable to grasp that the Arachnid aliens were provoked into attacking Earth by the intrusion of humans into their habitats.
movie: V for Vendetta (2005) major The state used propaganda to control the citizenry.
tng6x11 major Cardassian military indoctrinated people in the virtues of military rule, as did Madred his daughter, and with parallels to indoctrinating Picard into seeing five lights where there were only four