Anderson, Master, IV,

[David Morris]

I object to the segment in The Master when Freddie is being brainwashed. It
doesn't ring true.  Brainwashing is mostly a myth used as a cudgel to
legitimized anti-brainwashing, which DOES exist. True converts are not
coerced.

David Morris

On Monday, December 1, 2014, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Am 01.12.2014 18:00, schrieb Joseph Tracy:
>
>  Just to push the
>>> conversation a bit- is it such a stretch to consider CIA/Political
>>> actions and media messages in Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, Argentina,
>>> El Salvador...  as a kind of cultic message of liberation, in this
>>> case through mass violence.
>>>
>>
> Hmmm, reminds me of the strange coincidence that Jim Jones, of Peoples
> Temple and Kool-Aid fame, and Dan Mitrione, a man who used to torture
> beggars to death for training purposes, were childhood friends.
>
> http://jimhougan.com/JimJones2.html
>
> Thomas
>
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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