Source: Astounding Science Fiction Editorial “Brain-Washing”- 1954-10 (Vol 054 No 02)
I was reading a sci-fi magazine’s editorial about psychotherapeutic techniques representing brain-washing gone wrong. In an attempt tp redirect that energy towards a more peaceful solution, an analysis for understanding the concept of brain-washing is required. It is based on not using torture (abuse,assault,electric shock, dungeon and chains, lie detector, sodium pantathum or truth serium, straw under the fingernails, water drip on the head,uttering threats,etc.). Instead of forcing a change, by sheer agony, the red brain-washers rely on inducing changes in the brain itself – beyond subliminal and hypnosis messaging.
Torture and human rights abuse is widespread and should not be tolerated by civilized nations that have come together for discussion. Historically, torture has taken many a wrong turn for the worst in breaking the covert spy’s resistance. There must be more than one way to get a secret out of someone. Methods without torture include:
1. A painless prefrontal lobotomy initiates the effective control of the judgement centers. A hyperdermic needle is inserted behind the eyeball, and novacaine is injected directly into the brain tissues. The temporary effect, eliminated by the severing or paralyzing of the nerve trunk, suppresses memories like the sense of fear, guilt, shame or sorrow; they become readily available to a questioner. The patient is a living robot without courage or determination.
2. An “Insulin-shock treatment” produces a change of direction of determination.
3. A “Mind alteration technique” directing the patient to be will-less and do unpleasant things to themselves; if so commanded.
4. The “Brain Stravation technique” starves the brain of sugar or oxygen affecting the judgement faculty, further affecting beliefs and opinions of the mind – going into a slump, showing weakness and a permit of some realignment.
5.The “Red Brain-Washers” produce a state of semi-starvation and weaken the resistence of the whole organism with cold, damp, and by encouraging chronic minor infections such as colds. In addition, the intellect is starved by solitary confinement, acting as an additional effective factor. Without an hallucination consultation with someone else, ideas slip sideways and judgements weaken and fog. Hunger, chill, misery results in the brain, operating on a biochemical principle, not fueled properly. The new orientation is supplanted in the subconscious gradually as the brain is nourished gradually.
Note: A pilot flying too high without oxygen is hit with “hypoxia” causing the pilot to act drunk and irrational before blacking out. The pilot thinks their judgement is still working because the judgement needed to detect and confirm the concept is not working – it just isn’t there.
Also note: A spy if captured must become a psychopathic liar. They’re told to confess to anything to save their skin. Any confession said under duress would be automatically valueless to the enemy.
Opinion: The description behind the experiment reminds me of Doc Savage and the way he approached the problem in his Crime College. Doc Savage, being a surgeon and engineer also questioned transorbital leukotomy and the practice of subtotal euthanasia by destruction of the neural pathways to the prefrontal lobes. What bothers the psychiatrist is “intractableness” not the insanity which bothers the patient. There is a frantic search in a controlling method for race-homicidal, race-suicidal tendencies without enacting mind-murder – creating patient zombies avoiding pain. A function of the brain is to avoid pain based on a preconditioned response; it is counter survival – avoid it. Physical pain can be modified and changed from human memory. Hubbard’s Dianetics with Life Coaching is helping to restore many persons with mental disease or a head injury. New legislation slated for 2013, for marijuana possession in the states of Washington and Colorado, should back-up statistics and lower the crime rate by at least five percent. Other studies by Universities are tapping into the pain relief properties of illegal narcotics. How the states will tax it, is still in debate. Well, it serves you right for leaning on authority! One investigation leads to another because memory is in use leading to conclusions drawn from experience and conclusions drawn from its conclusions. The results are computed in various ways to obtain correct answers. Beliefs such as thought alienation, blocking, broadcasting, insertion and withdrawal are delusional and dealt with by hidden unconscious memories because we have minds with which to think. Make note: the velocity of light is half that of electricity – we just have to plug in. Further application of a lithium power grid would give us warp speed. The stars are up there and we can reach
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