Sunday, June 21, 2009

Brainwashing

While working as a temp several years ago, a man at the factory approached me and gave me a pamphlet called "brainwashing." The pamphlet was published by church group and talked about the psychological and social brainwashing that the soviet union performed on American soldiers at one time. The man appeared to be schizophrenic and I avoided him. But I took the pamphlet and it sat on my shelf for several years. Now that I have experienced first hand some of the techniques described in the pamphlet, I am less inclined to dismiss everything in it as paranoia or propaganda. Here is the pamphlet scanned.