Anderson, Master, IV,

[rich]

The GIs experience in Korea as POWs comes to mind but you did include the
mostly as qualifier

rich

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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