TWOC on Nostr: "The Rape of The Mind: Technocracy" (posted 21/3/24) I am currently reading the ...
"The Rape of The Mind: Technocracy" (posted 21/3/24)
I am currently reading the fascinating book called "The rape of the mind" from 1956 by Joost Meerloo, M.D., but I jumped ahead and already read chapter 12 about technology and technocracy twice. If you read my "Bankster Paradise Series" or post on "The Age of Decay" you will understand why. The book is about brainwashing, propaganda, totalitarianism, conditioning and mind control. Technocracy is the science of social engineering.
Before sharing part of chapter 12 I will share a bit from chapter 2 called "Pavlov's students as circus tamers" and "the urge to be conditioned" because it contains a big part of the solution:
"... It is not my task here to elaborate on the subject of the biased use of Pavlovian rules by totalitarians, but without doubt part of the interpretation of any psychology is determined by the ways we think about our fellow human beings and man’s place in nature. If our ideal is to make conditioned zombies out of people, the current misuse of Pavlovianism will serve our purpose. But once we become even vaguely aware that in the totalitarian picture of man the characteristic human note is missing, and when we see that in such a scheme man sacrifices his instinctual desires, his pleasures, his aims, his goals, his creativity, his instinct for freedom, his paradoxicality, we immediately turn against this political perversion of science. Such use of Pavlovian technique is aimed only at developing the automaton in man, not his free alert mind that is aware of moral goals and aims in life.
Even in laboratory animals we have found that affective goal-directedness can spoil the Pavlovian experiment. When, during a bell-food training session, the dog’s beloved master entered the room, the animal lost all its previous conditioning and began to bark excitedly.
Here is a simple example of an age-old truth: love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning. The rigid automaton cannot exist without spontaneous self-expression. Apparently, the fact that the dog’s spontaneous affection for his master could ruin all the mechanical calculations and manipulations never occurred to Pavlov’s totalitarian students."
https://www.thewayofcoherence.com/post/the-rape-of-the-mind-technocracy
I am currently reading the fascinating book called "The rape of the mind" from 1956 by Joost Meerloo, M.D., but I jumped ahead and already read chapter 12 about technology and technocracy twice. If you read my "Bankster Paradise Series" or post on "The Age of Decay" you will understand why. The book is about brainwashing, propaganda, totalitarianism, conditioning and mind control. Technocracy is the science of social engineering.
Before sharing part of chapter 12 I will share a bit from chapter 2 called "Pavlov's students as circus tamers" and "the urge to be conditioned" because it contains a big part of the solution:
"... It is not my task here to elaborate on the subject of the biased use of Pavlovian rules by totalitarians, but without doubt part of the interpretation of any psychology is determined by the ways we think about our fellow human beings and man’s place in nature. If our ideal is to make conditioned zombies out of people, the current misuse of Pavlovianism will serve our purpose. But once we become even vaguely aware that in the totalitarian picture of man the characteristic human note is missing, and when we see that in such a scheme man sacrifices his instinctual desires, his pleasures, his aims, his goals, his creativity, his instinct for freedom, his paradoxicality, we immediately turn against this political perversion of science. Such use of Pavlovian technique is aimed only at developing the automaton in man, not his free alert mind that is aware of moral goals and aims in life.
Even in laboratory animals we have found that affective goal-directedness can spoil the Pavlovian experiment. When, during a bell-food training session, the dog’s beloved master entered the room, the animal lost all its previous conditioning and began to bark excitedly.
Here is a simple example of an age-old truth: love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning. The rigid automaton cannot exist without spontaneous self-expression. Apparently, the fact that the dog’s spontaneous affection for his master could ruin all the mechanical calculations and manipulations never occurred to Pavlov’s totalitarian students."
https://www.thewayofcoherence.com/post/the-rape-of-the-mind-technocracy