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Zak Stein; Propaganda and education, psychological war and the CIA

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The Science of Thought Terminating Cliches

Psychologist Robert Lifton studied korean war veterans who'd been literally brain washed by the chinese. He found that soldiers came to just repeat thought termai cliches throug a kind of subtle coercion for months on end, and became confused about what their own ideas were concerning capitalism vers commonessom men in the east. So my orgament is that something very similar to that context that enables brain washing happens right between us and our screens,. especially if you are addicted to social media cause, i guess it it's not just one way broadcast receiving propaganda. It's a receiving propaganda, forced to articulate the language given to you by the propagandists for social approval in the

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