Word: brainwash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concept of "psychedelic fascism," which Sanders encountered in his investigations into many satanist cults, has received a large amount of play in the media, and refers to the way in which psychedelics are used to brainwash and subjugate people into a strict authoritarian lifestyle, usually centered on the demands and needs of one leader. It is this which worries Ed Sanders most. "Young people need to know the techniques a guru or so-called leader might use to entrap them in a web of submission so that they can keep a constant vigil against it," warns Sanders in his preface...
Giving as an example the failure of the North Koreans to brainwash many of their G.I. war prisoners, Stanford Psychologist Albert Bandura asserts that control of human behavior on the scale advocated by Skinner is impossible. Psychologist Ernest Hilgard, also of Stanford, thinks control of mass behavior is theoretically possible but realistically improbable, because there are too many bright people who would never go along...
Chairman William B. Lockhart, dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, said that he had undertaken his study with no preconceived ideas and had not tried to "brainwash" the rest of the panel. It was clear that the minority was not intimidated. Charles Keating Jr., the only Nixon appointee on the commission-the rest, as the Administration had stressed, were named by Lyndon Johnson-branded the report "a declaration of moral bankruptcy," "the epitome of government-gone-berserk," and "a travesty preordained by the . . . prejudice of its chairman...
...emphasis of the seventh-grade sessions was placed on youngsters' social problems," while even "twelfth graders would learn more about the problems of raising a family than they would about sexual intercourse." Nevertheless, the Antis saw it as the evil of all evils -a Communist plot to brainwash pure-minded America. Atheism, rock 'n' roll, even the U.K. were minor perils beside sex education. It was "programmed perversion," condoning homosexuality, endorsing masturbation-a sneaky death blow at the heart of America: the Family. The Pros, on the other hand, saw the experiment as education at the point...