To carry on with the behaviour modification theme, a lovely member of my happy hippie mommies group posted some interesting quotes, I thought I might share (thank you Caroline):
Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective ... It is for the future scientist to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of philosophy & psychology who influenced Hegel and others – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas...
Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and co-founder of the World Federation of Mental Health
The family is now one of the major obstacles to improved mental health, and hence should be weakened, if possible, so as to free individuals and especially children from the coercion of family life."
International Congress on Mental Health, London, 1948
The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values by psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not confined to separate courses or programs...they are not isolated idiosyncracies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous books and other educational materials in programs packaged by organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the techniques to teachers. Some packages even include instructions on how to deal with parents and others who object. Stripping away psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries to be discussed in group sessions, and through role-playing assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing programs in China under Mao.
Thomas Sowell, writing in Forbes, 1991
Fran
ReplyDeleteAs a behaviourist, Skinner was great, but his, as with many others, obsession was with controlling the child and forming it into a useful tool for "society". Modern psychology, genetics, education and pharma are all geared to the same objective.
Looking at these subjects as separate cogs of human development will not do. It is clear from my own research and the research of many others, that there is a central objective behind the activities going on in these fields. To understand this, I would ask you to take a look at Eugenics which is the core belief system behind much of modern science, and the same names such as Huxley, Rockefeller, and Carnegie turn up as the instigators and funders of education, research funding, and the UN.
These interconnected families are directing modern society toward their great dream, a world government (which if you are in university will be lauded and promoted)
By now, I suspect you smell a rat somewhere, and your instinct is guiding you to the truth. Remember that all areas of science are interconnected, and that there are powers directing the course of human development.
Regards
Antireptilian