[aspasia]

Founded? In any case, conditioning and propaganda are not brainwashing if the washing part has any meaning, as it was meant originally in the 50s when the Communists in Korea attempted their transformative practices of xǐnăo.

[Vermont Lt]

I think the Manchuria Candidate is an exaggerated version where they turn people into “drones.” Everything i’ve Read on the subject (admittedly not a lot) is that type of hypnotic suggestion cannot be ingrained to have a subject do anything they normally would not.

Programming troops to hate the enemy is different, and has even done sine the beginning of time.

I would love to read examples that suggest different. (Not written with any sarcastic intent. I find this stuff interesting.)