"With all of the intolerance of “offensive” speech and ideas, it’s worth considering what could be happening.
Is it all just to create a better society or are we being coerced into a certain mindset?
...And who today dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use?
Usually, those that matter originate in our universities and institutions of higher learning.
They then trickle down through society as those who were embedded with the new words and phrases make their way through society and eventually into positions of leadership.
- “Such is the Pavlovian device: repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity of communicating dissent and opposition. This is the simple formula for conditioning the masses. This is also the actual ideal of some of our public relation machines…”
And the goal of political conditioning?
“Political conditioning should not be confused with training or persuasion or even indoctrination.
It is more than that.
- It is taming.
- It is taking possession of both the simplest and the most complicated nervous patterns of man.
- It is the battle for the possession of the nerve cells.
- It is coercion and enforced conversion.
- Instead of conditioning man to an unbiased facing of reality, the seducer conditions him to catchwords, verbal stereotypes, slogans, formulas, symbols.
- Pavlovian strategy in the totalitarian sense means imprinting prescribed reflexes on a mind that has been broken down.”
If political conditioning is the goal, how is it achieved?...Read all.
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