Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response,… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share
