When we talk about brainwashing, we must mention two cases of two Christian clerics.. Father "Simon" and Father "Luca"..
Both Father "Simon" and "Luca" were in China.. and they spent a long period in China.. and they loved Chinese society and were influenced by it in their lifestyle and their manner.. until they were arrested along with others on a charge of fighting communist principles..
Father Simon is put in a cell with a group of individuals.. The Chinese authorities told them that if they helped them brainwash him, they would be released.. and they learned the method and the game began..
At first they deprived Father "Simon" of sleep.. and they began to beat him and humiliate him.. and then whenever he spoke they mocked his words, and belittled him, through sarcasm and jokes and ridicule..
With the passage of time, and with this flood of negative emotions.. Father Simon actually becomes a communist.. to the point that when he is freed and returns to his homeland, he remains a convert to communism.. and criticizes the church fathers, because of their anti-communist views.. Father "Simon" remains like that forever.. he never changes again.. and that saddens everyone around him.. but unfortunately it is over.. he reached the point of no return..
Exactly like the ordinary young man.. who goes with you to university and the gym and suddenly turns into an ISIS supporter.. and remains determined on that.. no matter how you try to convince him otherwise..
The point of no return.. and insect intelligence.. and zombie-like behavior.. and a total loss of logic..
But the case that was worthy of study was the case of Father "Francis Luca"..
Father "Luca" from the beginning debated the communists and argued with them a lot, of course they beat him and threw him in prison.. and they presented him to a group of prisoners too, and told them that if they fixed his thinking, they would release them..
Like Father "Simon".. the prisoners began to exhaust "Luca" with many questions about his beliefs.. and they would criticize anything he said and mock it and joke about it..
But Father "Luca" was not affected by this treatment.. so they added weights to his chains, and he kept crawling under their weight all the time.. they forced him to stand for days until his feet developed ulcers and began to rot..
They deprived him of sleep for days and put him in a cell whose floor was full of sewage water.. but "Luca" remained steadfast in his position.. and he endured this treatment for another month.. and then he threw the Chinese a fabricated, false confession.. that he hated the American systems and preferred the communist system..
Because his words were mostly improvised.. he could not repeat his confession a second time before the Chinese judge.. so they beat him until his back was broken, and the doctor who examined him said that his spine had suffered fractures.. but his spinal cord was intact.. but he would not be able to walk for a year..
During this year he lay in his cell.. still subjected to mockery and belittling and ridicule from the prisoners with him..
After that he decided to record a video for them in which he rejects Christian principles and glorifies communist principles..
He actually does so.. so they release him and expel him from China..
Father Luca returns, and his colleagues and the church authorities discover that his brain was not washed..
"Luca" is as he is, preserving his principles.. and he was able to defy the communists, and stand firm against their brainwashing methods for more than a year and a half.. and after that he deceived them.. until they released him..
And here a vital question appeared..
Why did "Luca" endure a thousand times what "Simon" was subjected to.. and yet.. "Simon" failed and was converted.. and "Luca" did not?
How did Father "Luca" hold out against the horrific torture sessions.. and the mockery and constant belittling.. and the beating and torture and pain?
The two men were subjected to study and examination.. and then the scientists announced the truth..
That Father "Francis Luca"'s mentality was in fact far more developed than Father "Simon"'s..
True, both were deeply religious. Kind-hearted.. and loved China and its people.. but "Luca" was more intelligent and cultured.. and widely read.. his culture was extremely high.. he read about almost everything.. and knew something about everything..
And this was reflected in his personality..
He had a flexible, intelligent personality, practical where practicality was required.. and emotional where emotion was required.. he thought before he spoke.. his emotions flowed in a measured way, in the right place.. and no one ever saw him at any time without a book in his hand..
And this made him impossible to brainwash..
His mind was strong.. surrounded by walls of heritage and culture that were able to protect it..
As for Father "Simon", he was the opposite.. he read almost nothing but the holy books.. very emotional and his personality was inflexible.. and his thinking was bigoted and one-dimensional, of the "all or nothing" type..
Consequently "Simon"'s mind had no cultural heritage.. so he fell an easy prey to brainwashing..
The forensic psychiatrist "Dick Anthony" says: "No one can deny that treatments like these - constant mockery and rejection and insult and torture - can affect some people.. but there are other people who are stronger than these treatments.."
Note always that at the heart of recruitment attempts, jokes and mockery are an important weapon.. so if you mock, for example, a certain minister all the time.. and if you manage to get the majority to share this mockery with you.. .. he might resign..
And if you keep mocking a writer all the time, he might stop writing..
That is why most of the time you find practical and scientific topics being raised.. and there are employees sitting on the internet.. someone or an entity with an interest pays them.. their goal is just to mock them and nothing more..
And many of the weak-minded fall into this.. because not everyone is like Father "Luca"..
That is why children are an easy target.. because a child does not have a mental heritage to protect him..
And because a child turns to his parents to ask, it is better that they be too busy for him.. not answering his questions.. they are going around in a circle to provide him with the means of life.. they have no time for his existential questions..
Or their brains are already washed, they too..
This produces for us a generation of zombies.. with which we can fight the society they were born into and dismantle it and destroy it when necessary..
In this way a generation grew up in a lapse of time.. that decided to raise arms against its own country because it sees that as freedom..
And who raises arms against a particular state except its enemy?
He has indeed become its enemy.. or more precisely.. as "Hunter" said, an army of zombies.. each one with a "traitor" planted in his brain..
A traitor to himself.. driving him to destruction.. a traitor to his country.. a traitor to his family and to all beautiful values.. seeing killing as opposition and freedom..
That is why you find that with terrorist groups, hearing and obeying are duties.. and thinking is forbidden..
Do not ask and do not think.. or else you leave this control..
All right, what if you thought and started to wake up?
Today torture has become useless and unavailable.. but mockery is a good weapon..
Mockery and ridicule are good weapons.. usable, along with another method for recruiting the weak-minded..
Pestering..
And this happens through many means.. among them the media.. which is considered one of the most important methods of brainwashing..
And we will continue talking about that next time...
And the story continues..
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1 - Previous posts:
https://www.facebook.com/hammouda.m.hammouda/posts/2006299959382753
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https://www.facebook.com/hammouda.m.hammouda/posts/2006698239342925
-https://www.facebook.com/hammouda.m.hammouda/posts/2007754199237329
- https://www.facebook.com/hammouda.m.hammouda/posts/2010312918981457
2 - Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah (2000). Women in World History. 7. Yorkin Publications.
3 - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
Book - Kathleen Taylor.