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The Technology of Thought and Behavior Control
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The Technology of Thought and Behavior Control

Very few people know of this part of his
research. During a particularly severe storm in Russia,
heavy rains continued for days and Pavlov's laboratories
were flooded. Pavlov and his research assistants were
able to return to the laboratory only after the flood
waters had receded days later. Upon returning, Pavlov
discovered something truly remarkable. Before the flood,
many of the dogs had been conditioned to respond to
various stimuli. Lo and behold, all traces of the
conditioning in the dogs had disappeared! Bells, food,
nothing could induce the former salivation response that
had been so carefully implanted in the dogs' nervous
systems.

What mysterious influence could account for this remarkable turn of
events, Pavlov wondered. So, being a good scientist, he studied
carefully what had transpired while he was away from the dogs. They had
been left without food or warmth. They had been isolated for days;
some of them had drowned. They had been subjected to extreme stress,
never knowing if they would live or die. These were the factors that had
produced the washing away of the previous conditioning from the dogs'
brains - brain-washing.

B.F.Skinner developed the concept of operant conditioning in which a
subject--animal or human--receives reinforcement for desired behavior.

The techniques of Pavlov, Colby, and Skinner have
been taken over by political campaign managers,
television producers, and advertising executives. Today,
the average person is bombarded with conditioning
messages throughout each day. We are conditioned to
believe, feel, think, and act as other people choose. In
study after study, cultural conditioning instruments (TV,
popular songs, Web sites, newspapers, magazines) have
been shown to elicit specific behaviors on the part of the
"receiver."
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is,
perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it
comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed
debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and
taxes are the known instruments for bringing
the many under the domination of the few. In
war, too, the discretionary power of the
Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing
out offices, honors, and emoluments is
multiplied; and all the means of seducing the
minds, are added to those of subduing the force
of the people. The same malignant aspect in
republicanism may be traced in the inequality
of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud,
growing out of a state of war . . . and in the
degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered
by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in
the midst of continual warfare."

James Madison, April 20, 1795
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A powerful strategy of clandestine brainwashing is to send a
communication with two, paradoxical messages.

For example, the movie series, The Godfather, contained these two
contradictory messages:

mafia crime families are just like ordinary people

a mafia criminal will kill his own family if necessary; don't think he
would hesitate to kill you if ordered to


CLICK: BRAINWASHING AMERICA
http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm