[HN Gopher] A brief, weird history of brainwashing
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       A brief, weird history of brainwashing
        
       Author : EndXA
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-04-12 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Compare the use of RLF's lines in _Telefon_ (1977) as an example
       | of The Paranoid Style in American Po^H^HCinema:
       | The woods are lovely, dark and deep.       But I have promises to
       | keep,       And miles to go before I sleep,       And miles to go
       | before I sleep.
       | 
       | [that said, _The President 's Analyst_ (1967) is a much better
       | flick]
        
       | peter_d_sherman wrote:
       | SNL's Stefon character on this article:
       | 
       | "This one has _everything_ :
       | 
       | AI, ALAMY, America, American, American GIs, American Mind,
       | Annalee Newitz, Atlanta, Birkbeck, Brain, Brainwashed,
       | Brainwashing, Buddhist, California, Canadians, Catholics, Central
       | Intelligence Agency, China, Chinese, Church Committee, CIA, Cold
       | War, Colin Dickey, Communists, Confucian, Cybernetics, Dark
       | Persuasion, David Seed, Dianetics, Dickey, Dimsdale, Donald
       | Cameron, Douglas Fields, Dwight D Eisenhower, Edward Hunter, For
       | Liang, Frank Schwable, Frank Sinatra, Hidden Persuaders,
       | Hikvision, Homeland Security, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University,
       | Hungarian, Intelligence Activities, Iron Curtain, Ivan Pavlov,
       | Joel Dimsdale, Joost Meerloo, Juliette Kayyem, Kathleen Taylor,
       | Korea, Korean War, L. Ron Hubbard, Lavrentiy Beria, Liang Qichao,
       | Liverpool, London, LSD, Marcia Holmes, Maryland, McGill
       | University, Meerloo, Merrill Root, Military, Mindszenty,
       | Mitchell, MK-Ultra, Montreal, Myth, National Portrait Gallery,
       | National Security Council, Nature, Norbert Wiener, NSC, Online,
       | Operation Midnight Climax, Operations Coordinating Board, OSS,
       | Other, Over, Patty Hearst, Pavlov, Policy, POW's, Power,
       | Psychological Warfare, Psychopolitics, Quanta, Red China,
       | Republic, Russians, Ryan Mitchell, San Diego San Francisco,
       | Scientists, Scientology, Secret Societies, Senator Frank Church,
       | Shirley Chong, Sidney Gottlieb, Soviet Union, State, Stories Are
       | Weapons, Strategic Services, Study Governmental Operations,
       | Symbionese Liberation Army, The Dutch, The Manchurian Candidate,
       | The Science, They, Thought Control, Time Magazine, Today, Tom
       | Burrell, UCSD, United States, University, US, US Senate, US
       | Senate Select Committee, Wayne Williams, West, Western, Wikimedia
       | Commons, William Randolph Hearst, World War III, Worried,
       | Xinjiang, You..."
       | 
       | :-) <g> :-)
       | 
       | https://www.google.com/search?q=snl+stefon
       | 
       | Disclaimer: Submitted for comedy purposes only! :-) <g> :-)
       | 
       | Related (how I generated the above word list from the article
       | text):
       | 
       | https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/671487/grep-to-extr...
        
       | Modified3019 wrote:
       | If you want to see effective brainwashing, you need to look for
       | instances where Pavlovian conditioning and enhanced states of
       | suggestion (essentially "hypnosis", but think of the clinical
       | definition, rather than stage performance tropes) are combined
       | over the course of years in a way that self reinforces the
       | thoughts to be held. Works best when the person is offered
       | something that they think they need (validation, community,
       | sexual release, security) and if the person is already or can be
       | isolated from interfering peers.
       | 
       | Basically look at what cults do, though it doesn't even need a
       | machiavellian mastermind involved, people can and will accomplish
       | the same largely by their own initiative. This is what happens
       | when you get online communities radicalizing themselves.
        
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