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“In his important social psychological experiments with students, Asch found out in simple tests that there was a yielding toward an ERRING MAJORITY opinion in more than a third of his test persons, and 75 percent of subjects experimented upon agreed with the majority in varying degrees. In many persons the weight of authority is more important than the quality of the authority.”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
“Our leisure time is occupied increasingly by automatized activities in which we take no part: listening to piped-in words and viewing television screens (no portable smartphones, laptops back when Dr. Meerloo wrote his book). We hurry along with cars and go to bed with a sleeping pill. This pattern of living in turn may open the way for renewed sneak attacks on our mind. Our boredom may welcome any seductive suggestion.”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
“The totalitarians are very ingenious in arousing latent guilt in us by repeating over and over again how criminally the Wester world has acted toward innocent and peaceful people... [sometimes they use ridicule and other times they use boredom to lull people to sleep, under the illusion of peaceful coexistence].”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
“It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and compliance or otherwise, is conditioned rather early in life.”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
“Hitler's psychological artillery was composed primarily of the weapon of fear. He had, for example, a network of fifth columnists whose main job was to sow rumours and suspicions among the citizens of the countries against which he eventually planned to fight... [an example of such a rumour/slogan was:] "Why should France die for England?" Fear began to direct people's actions. Instead of facing the real threat of German invasion, instead of preparing for it, all of Europe shuddered at spy stories, discussed irrelevant problems, argued endlessly about scapegoats and minorities.”
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
― The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
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