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#brainwashing

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Auld Ma Twəgg

People are like, "But wouldn't it be better if we could give you a drug to cure your transsexualism so you don't have to transition?" but then get offended when I suggest it would be great if we could give them a drug to cure their political orientation so they don't have to have bad opinions about my mind/body.

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"We live in a 24/7 #media "society of the spectacle" where #brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.

This #propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form (is) offered by..."

Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?

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OffGuardian · Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media a…
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The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion by Rebecca Lemov, 2025

An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the hidden history of brainwashing―and its troubling implications for today.
Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening―unless we know where to look.

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As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability of Truth, “Brainwashing erases itself.” What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happens to other people as what can happen to anyone. The Instability of Truth exposes the myriad ways our minds can be controlled against our will, from the brainwashing techniques used against American POWs in North Korea to the “soft” brainwashing of social media doomscrolling and behavior-shaping. In our increasingly data-driven world, anyone can fall victim to mind control. Lemov identifies invasive forms of emotional engineering that exploit trauma and addiction to coerce and persuade in everyday life. Tracing the word “brainwashing” from deep in the files of an operative of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in the 1950s to the pioneering research of Robert Jay Lifton, to the public trials of cult leaders and the case of Patty Hearst, Lemov also studies how the idea of mind control has spread across the globe and penetrated courtrooms, secret labs, military schools, and today’s digital sites. The Instability of Truth offers lessons from mind-control episodes past and present. Truth is always subject to question in more mundane walks of life than most people believe, and Lemov equips us for the increasing challenges we face from social media, AI, and an unprecedented, global form of surveillance capitalism.
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