Anderson, Master, IV,

[Mark Kohut]

The second post from Morris wherein he uses his eyes. Against all the
preconception-views and abstract verbalizers, INCLUDING YOURS TRULY.
Bravo.
I have to watch the
brainwashing segment again. I saw and remember it as AN IDEA---we--as
Phoenix--are all brainwashed. A common enough idea out of Marcuse,
others, etc. but seldom
filmed (even if badly).

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:15 PM, 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>
> 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
>>
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