now how about giving the Reimu some OJ and then kicking the trash can to wake it up. after that, record "this is humans' home and you're just a piece of trash invading it" into an audio recorder and tape it onto the inside of the trash can's lid, set the recording to play on repeat mode and put it back on. with some household waste also put in for the Reimu to subsist on, we should be able to indoctrinate it for at least several days before the battery of the recorder runs out. replace the battery and put in more waste until indoctrination has gone on for 2 or 3 weeks, at which we can take the Reimu out to see the results of what we've been doing. if we suceeded, then we can kick the Reimu out and demand it to never come back, and see how far can the "humans' home" belief spread.
Goebbels succeeded in making people believe in the Nazi ideology with this method, so there should be no reason for this to not work on a dumb manjuu that rely on the power of belief. also, it'd be interesting to see whether this indoctrination would get drowned out when the Reimu mates with a shithead/dumb yukkuri and produce equally trashy offsprings. or rather, if this method is replicated on a sufficiently large number of yukkuri, would it then become possible to inject the notion that (urban) houses belong to humans into their genetic belief and cause it to spread like a meme? (not internet meme of course. think of it as a cultural virus).
TosylChloride said: Goebbels succeeded in making people believe in the Nazi ideology with this method, so there should be no reason for this to not work on a dumb manjuu that rely on the power of belief. also, it'd be interesting to see whether this indoctrination would get drowned out when the Reimu mates with a shithead/dumb yukkuri and produce equally trashy offsprings. or rather, if this method is replicated on a sufficiently large number of yukkuri, would it then become possible to inject the notion that (urban) houses belong to humans into their genetic belief and cause it to spread like a meme? (not internet meme of course. think of it as a cultural virus).
If you think it was pure propaganda that made a good chunk of the german populace then to subscribe to Nazism then you are sorely mistaken. The conditions were just right for a good portion of the population to be swept along the brouhaha of scapegoating, the illusion of progress and justice and other whathaveyous I rather not waste time elaborating. No amount of propaganda would convince a happy and contented person and the good number of germans after world war 1 were exactly the opposite of that. Add in the fact that Hitler's opposition were pretty milquetoast with how they treated him when they should have stamped out his rhetoric as early as possible by fomenting in-fighting in Hitler's support group that he comes out inept and inutile. What happened was that a lot of factors contributed to the Nazis rise to power. When they had the figurehead pretty much well positioned, the rest of those non-confrontational pretended to subscribe to the Nazis' vision as the fear of being persecuted was at the back of most germans' minds if they were found to be less "loyal" to the cause of the "german people".
--- As for that sort of social engineering for yus there are plenty of ankos with that premise. Even one where a clan act pretty humbly towards humans and do pretty much what you want for a mild mannered stray even disciplining their children early so that the learned behavior perpetuates to the next generation. While they are dubbed easy by Humans, the yukkuris secretly yearn for the simpler times when they can really be yukkuri: declare to the world that vegetables grow on their own, etc.