The Rape of the Mind explores the Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing. Published in 1956 and written by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D., Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Lecturer in Social Psychology, New School for Social Research, Former Chief, Psychological Department, Netherlands Forces.
“SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started the Reichstag fire in Berlin, Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo has studied the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective “truth” on their victims’ minds. The first two and one-half years of WWII, Dr. Meerloo spent under the pressure of Nazi-occupied Holland, witnessing at first-hand the Nazi methods of mental torture on more than one occasion…Then, after personal experiences with enforced interrogation, he escaped from a Nazi prison and certain death to England, where he was able, as Chief of the Psychological Department of the Netherlands Forces, to observe and study coercive methods officially….
After the war, he came to the United States…As more and more cases of thought control, brainwashing, and mental coercion were disclosed – Cardinal Mindszenty, Colonel Schwable, Robert Vogeler, and others – his interest grew. It was Dr. Meerloo who coined the word menticide, the killing of the spirit, for this peculiar crime…It is Dr. Meerloo’s position that through pressure on the weak points in men’s makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a “traitor.” And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people’s minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized “rape of the mind.” He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion. The Rape of the Mind is written for the interested layman, not only for experts and scientists.”
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I am posting this today because after covid and now as we move toward war with Iran and WW3, it is obvious to many of us that our minds have been raped repeatedly over many decades.
As we witness the precipitous decline of USA and the West, those of us who can see what is happening must also appreciate that all of it has been deliberate. MK-ULTRA is merely the visible sliver of a vast mind-control war of occupation and takeover which has been waged against USA and the West for over 100 years.
Meerloo does an outstanding job of describing how mind-control techniques work and which parts of human psychology allow them to work. I want to point out that mind-control alone, without violence, is a fairly weak brew. When accompanied by violence, mind-control is all but insuperable. Obvious forms of violence are imprisonment, police phalanxes, perverse laws and prosecutions, military combat.
To understand what has caused the West to decline so rapidly, one must also understand that Western people have undergone many decades of clandestine violence, secret violence, which includes, at one end of the spectrum, soft forms like reputation destruction and educational misdirection, and at the other end, poison, physical maiming, psychosurgery, sensory harm, and disease creation. Covid and the covid response in the West has all of the hallmarks of a disease-creation mind-control campaign.
It is very important to understand that clandestine violence, hidden violence, is the major factor in bringing USA and the West to this point of probably no-return we find ourselves at now.
See parts 1 & 2 of this for more: Military thought experiment Part 1. ABN
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