To what extent are Pavlovian mind conditioning techniques used to control the minds of populations today, making people behave and think in ways that our rulers want us to?
In the late 19th century, Ivan Pavlov, a Russian Nobel Prize winner, conducted some experiments on dogs. When dogs are hungry, their mouths water if they see food. Pavlov conditioned the minds of the dogs so that they would salivate when they heard a bell ringing. This was achieved by ringing the bell when the dogs were given food. After many repetitions of this, the dogs' mouths watered upon hearing the bell, whether there was food or not.
According to Joost A.M. Merloo, M.D., Instructor in psychiatry and previous Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology: "From this and other experiments, Pavlov developed his theory of the conditioned reflex, which explains learning and training as the building up of a mosaic of conditioned reflexes, each one based on the establishment of an association between different stimuli. The greater the number of learned complex resposnes also called patterns the greater the number of conditioned reflexes developed. Because man, of all the animals, has the greatest capacity for learning, he is the animal with the greatest capacity for such complicated conditioning.
Pavlov's experiments were of great value in the study of animal and human behavior, and in the study of the development of neurotic symptoms. However, this knowledge of some of the mechanisms of the human mind can be used as we have seen already, like any other knowledge, either for good or for evil. And unfortunately, the totalitarians have used their knowledge of how the mind works for their own purposes. They have applied some of the Pavlovian findings, in a subtle and complicated way and sometimes in a grotesque way, to try to produce the reflex of mental and political conditioning and of submission in the human guinea pigs under their control
It is acknowledged that, under Stalin, the Russians used these techniques, and held the view that all human emotions can be reduced "to a simple mechanistic system of conditioned reflexes".
We must come to grips with the fact that these techniques are being used today to control us. For our rulers, the political task is to mold our minds so that our comprehension is confined to a narrow concept of the world. This is done by REPEATING SIMPLE IDEAS and WITHOLDING ANY OTHER INTERPRETATION OF REALITY. (That is now challenged by the internet to an unprecedented extent).
If someone says something that goes against the mental conditioning of another person, the conditioned person reacts with an automatic rebuttal - akin to a dog's bark. Their programming tells them to reject this new idea, but for some it drives a wedge into the conditioned reflex. Instead of a bark, they may try to give a clearly reasoned argument against the new or controversial idea. In so doing, they break the spell, and begin to see more clearly (even if they disagree with the idea).
A lot of the time however, such advances in getting people to awaken will be lost within days, as the conditioning from the popular newspapers, magazines, TV, cinema, books, education system,the Church and peer pressure (all part of the spreading global monoculture that is to enslave us all) throws them back into their conditioned reflex.
Hopefully the belief that critical function and verification in human thinking can be suppressed is not entirely correct. The training and conditioning of people requires constant effort to be put into keeping them in that state. People feel the danger of dissent, but in the end human rebellion may not be suppressed. They only need one breath of freedom to wake up.(Albeit temporarily).
As Merloo says "the idea that there exist other ways to truth than those he sees close at hand lives somewhere in everybody. One can narrow his pathways of research and expression, but a man's belief in adventurous new roads elsewhere is ever present in the back of his mind. "
All quotes from "The Rape of the Mind" by Joost A.M.Merloo M.D.
In the late 19th century, Ivan Pavlov, a Russian Nobel Prize winner, conducted some experiments on dogs. When dogs are hungry, their mouths water if they see food. Pavlov conditioned the minds of the dogs so that they would salivate when they heard a bell ringing. This was achieved by ringing the bell when the dogs were given food. After many repetitions of this, the dogs' mouths watered upon hearing the bell, whether there was food or not.
According to Joost A.M. Merloo, M.D., Instructor in psychiatry and previous Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology: "From this and other experiments, Pavlov developed his theory of the conditioned reflex, which explains learning and training as the building up of a mosaic of conditioned reflexes, each one based on the establishment of an association between different stimuli. The greater the number of learned complex resposnes also called patterns the greater the number of conditioned reflexes developed. Because man, of all the animals, has the greatest capacity for learning, he is the animal with the greatest capacity for such complicated conditioning.
Pavlov's experiments were of great value in the study of animal and human behavior, and in the study of the development of neurotic symptoms. However, this knowledge of some of the mechanisms of the human mind can be used as we have seen already, like any other knowledge, either for good or for evil. And unfortunately, the totalitarians have used their knowledge of how the mind works for their own purposes. They have applied some of the Pavlovian findings, in a subtle and complicated way and sometimes in a grotesque way, to try to produce the reflex of mental and political conditioning and of submission in the human guinea pigs under their control
It is acknowledged that, under Stalin, the Russians used these techniques, and held the view that all human emotions can be reduced "to a simple mechanistic system of conditioned reflexes".
We must come to grips with the fact that these techniques are being used today to control us. For our rulers, the political task is to mold our minds so that our comprehension is confined to a narrow concept of the world. This is done by REPEATING SIMPLE IDEAS and WITHOLDING ANY OTHER INTERPRETATION OF REALITY. (That is now challenged by the internet to an unprecedented extent).
If someone says something that goes against the mental conditioning of another person, the conditioned person reacts with an automatic rebuttal - akin to a dog's bark. Their programming tells them to reject this new idea, but for some it drives a wedge into the conditioned reflex. Instead of a bark, they may try to give a clearly reasoned argument against the new or controversial idea. In so doing, they break the spell, and begin to see more clearly (even if they disagree with the idea).
A lot of the time however, such advances in getting people to awaken will be lost within days, as the conditioning from the popular newspapers, magazines, TV, cinema, books, education system,the Church and peer pressure (all part of the spreading global monoculture that is to enslave us all) throws them back into their conditioned reflex.
Hopefully the belief that critical function and verification in human thinking can be suppressed is not entirely correct. The training and conditioning of people requires constant effort to be put into keeping them in that state. People feel the danger of dissent, but in the end human rebellion may not be suppressed. They only need one breath of freedom to wake up.(Albeit temporarily).
As Merloo says "the idea that there exist other ways to truth than those he sees close at hand lives somewhere in everybody. One can narrow his pathways of research and expression, but a man's belief in adventurous new roads elsewhere is ever present in the back of his mind. "
All quotes from "The Rape of the Mind" by Joost A.M.Merloo M.D.
