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The Idea of Brain Washing
The idea of brain washing emerged after the korean war, when americans were trying to come up with an explanation for how so many p o ws could have succumbed to coercion or inducement. The movie the manchurian candidate helped firm up the public's idea about brain washing and what it was in 62. It shaped the way many Americans interpreted the rise of the sixties counterculture and then thee seventies cults like it was a form of mass brain washing. One of the anti cult movements most famous activists as go named ted patrick.