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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Wednesday, July 26, 2006

    sounds like BushCo and the Israeli Nutcases invading Lebanon

    This item is one of Robert J. Lifton's eight essential elements of a brainwashing program, and one of Margaret Thaler Singer's five required conditions for a "thought reform" program.

    The totalist environment draws a sharp line between those whose right to existence can be recognized, and those who possess no such right. In thought reform, as in Chinese Communist practice generally, the world is divided into the "people" (defined as "the working class, the peasant class, the petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie"), and the "reactionaries" or "lackies of imperialism" (defined as "the landlord class, the bureaucratic capitalist class, and the KMT reactionaries and their henchmen").
    Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.; W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1963, page 433.

    • The cult decides whether people are good or bad, and the cult defines what "good" and "bad" mean.

    • The cult decides whether people deserve to live or not.

    • The cult decides whether people deserve to go to Heaven or not.

    • The cult decides what the truth is.

    • The cult has an elitist world view, and declares that only cult members are "good enough", however the cult defines "good".

    • The cult dispenses conditional love and conditional approval, often while simultaneously bragging that it offers newcomers "unconditional love" and "complete acceptance". The conditional approval depends on obedience and conformity to the cult's rules.

    • And of course the cult practices shunning and ostracism of those who leave -- "deserters" who have committed "the ultimate sin" -- leaving -- which the phony guru will call something like "betraying the cause". Splitters are declared to be evil immoral people (who have no right to live).

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