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The mechanics of brainwashing - How easy is it to brainwash or mislead a person or populations and how to go about it? or Today's relevance of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ concept

This seems to be the curse of man, if you do not stand up against the oppressor, then... rest assured... you will be oppressed. On the other hand if you choose to stand up you may risk to get crushed. It seems it is unavoidable that many people can and will suffer.

Now, you need a type of leaders, you need trendsetters. How do you get the right persons to achieve your aim for you? This is an aspect that I will address here below.

Today's relevance of ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ concept

Originally a work of fiction going by that title written by Richard Condon and published in 1959. It is basically about the creation of a puppet (brainwashed individual) that can be activated (by showing some picture) to do what he has been programmed to, does it, and then has no recall of it. A creation thus of a so-called sleeper agent. Already in 1962 the book was made into a film with Frank Sinatra (remade in 2004 with Denzel Washington, but one should stick with the 1962 version). A similar concept was used by author Walter Wager in his book ‘Telefon’ (1975). A film version, with the same title, was released only 2 years later in 1977, directed by Don Siegel and starring Charles Bronson who had to hunt down a defector that had obtained a list with such sleeper agents and who was activating them through a simple phone call in where a short phrase was uttered. And again in the trilogy written by Robert Ludlum starting in 1980 with ‘The Bourne Identity’. During the 2000s we have Matt Damon playing that character in a series of films. It is all the same concept.

We find it further used in the ‘Columbo’ television series episode ‘A Deadly State of Mind’ from 1975, where we find a hypnotist in action. Particularly interesting is the 1973 episode ‘Double Exposure’ in where the perpetrator is inducing a programmed behaviour on his victim by use of subliminal cuts in a film which gets that victim killed. A technique which Inspector Columbo (Peter Falk) later in the episode uses to have the perpetrator expose himself.

A different although related concept we find used in the TV-series called ‘The Mentalist’ that run 2008-15. In where Patrick Jane (performed by Simon Baker) who portrays “Someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion.” to achieve his goals through manipulating people and his environment.

Then during the ’50s and ’60s we also have this MK Ultra project of the CIA which was all about experimentation with these sorts of phenomena.

This concept however had more or less already been touched and was immortalized on celluloid by Fritz Lang in 1922 with the release of ‘Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit’, and again in 1933 with ‘Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse’ (after the books by Norbert Jacques). A super-villain or master-manipulator (a role performed by Rudolf Klein-Rogge) working with mind control through use of the will (telepathic hypnosis). Dr. Mabuse is also a master of disguise. His powers go beyond enjailment (asylum) or even the grave. The aim is to coerce people to do things you want them to do, without them realizing that they are doing that.

Purposely creating this state of mind in individuals is a phenomena that in the world of Scientology is referred to as PDH, which is short for Pain-Drugs-Hypnosis. Here you subject a person to Pain and/or Drug the person (in order to create an in part unconscious state of mind), and then (im)plant your commands into the person's mind through the method of Hypnosis. Here you have changed a person to having become a stimulus response mechanism that has no real control over him/her real self anymore. Mind that the original purpose of Scientology was to un-brainwash a person, in order to be able to do that you needed to understand and identify how man got tricked in the first place.

Tricking a person is actually much easier achieved than commonly is thought. It is also much more widely spread than commonly is thought. In fact we see it all around us, as man generally is just not very awake or aware at all. It is the actual reason why advertising techniques do result in huge results in regards to sales figures, and why they are still pursuing advertisements, today more than ever before. They wouldn't do that if it does not give a desired result. They are tricking because after all they are trying to convince (or program you) to get some item or something you do not actually need. Man is persistently subjected to all sorts of brainwash and manipulation.

And indeed it is so very easily achieved as for example Paul McKenna (hypnotist) clearly has demonstrated numerous of times live on television and elsewhere. Derren Brown is another such a person, a British illusionist. As late as Oct/Nov 2011 he appeared in a series of television programs ‘Derren Brown: The Experiments’. Particularly noteworthy is its first episode, entitled “The Assassin”, in where Derren Brown successfully hypnotised a member of the public to ‘assassinate’ Stephen Fry (a British celebrity) while he was live performing on stage. One of the questions asked with this test was if it would be possible to hypnotise (program) a person to perform such an act even it was against the morals of the person that was set up for it. Then committing the act and have no memory of having done that afterwards. The results were interesting as the person set up for this said afterwards that his focus was on aiming at a target and not on anything else. It would thus appear that one can bypass all morals. Further we have Jesse Ventura that has this television program ‘Conspiracy Theory’, one of these episodes is ‘Manchurian Candidate’ (2010). Jesse: “You don't think this stuff is real? Think again!”.

Now, how realistic would it be to think that schemes like this would have been brought about? Is it all science fiction? Well, the technique is there, it actually exists. It may not work equally well on every person, but if you get into it, and test it out on a bunch of people, you send out lots and lots of them then you are likely to get your perfect sleeper agent(s)! You only have to create your factory where such persons easily can be made.

A principle would be: “As the organization rapidly expands, so will it be a growing temptation for antisurvival elements to gain entry and infiltrate, and attempts to plant will be made.”

And so, if you are diligent, subtle enough, and for all patient, you can get a subject matter to actually change direction, and have people adjust to that and swallow all of it. And of course the area or degree of application of this technique are manifold. It will in addition facilitate matters if you leave false leads and contradictory information all over the place, lots and lots of them. Simply effectively confuse the area. There are patterns to be recognized here. The technique will work on very many levels indeed, as man is already living an illusion. He will get swayed just like that! Authority pressure will get you a long way. Act as an authority and speak as an authority.

Data and information is to be understood and fully evaluated, comparisons made, etc., it is never supposed to be blindly followed. If you follow anyway, then you will likely get or have been tricked already. Just count on that!

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