04-11-2008, 10:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2008, 10:53 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
Jack White Wrote:Why do you include Lifton?
Jack
The case against the FMSF is not dependent on Lifton.
In fact, Lifton has probably a bigger capacity for original thought than any of the FMSF scientific board. However, he was an Air Force shrink during the Korean War, and worked with the "brainwashed" American PoWs on their return.
"Brainwashing" itself is a CIA cover story (put out through their asset, Edward Hunter) to cover for confessions of American use of germ warfare against the North Koreans & Chinese. (See the research of Frank Olson's son Eric for compelling claims by US veterans that the US did indeed use germ warfare.)
Books such as Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, or theories such as that of "doubling" or psychological fragmentation under extreme trauma, are the work of a highly astute thinker who has, ahem, been around some very very nasty blocks.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war