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“The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.”
― 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
“By strengthening the myth of the dictator's omnipotence, such confessions weaken man's will to resist him. If a period of peace can be used to soften up a future enemy, the totalitarian armies may be able in time of war to win a cheap and easy victory. Totalitarian psychological warfare is directed largely toward this end. It is an effort to propagandize and hypnotize the world into submission.”
― 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
“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
“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
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