StopLGATs wrote:
"Really I think there's probably not a lot of difference from the same type of crowd manipulation that had thousands of people raising their hands and chanting "Sieg Heil" at Nuremburg. Or the two minute hate from Orwell's 1984 (chants of "Goldstein! Traitor!" followed glazed-eye admiration at the image of Big Brother)."
Yes, even though my experience at Landmark was more low-key it did seem that everything they did was geared toward the same kind of mentality that you would find with certain types of regimes.
I felt that they were grooming people into:
Accepting authority figures in areas of life where they have no business.
Giving up personal sovereignty and any control whatsoever over one's own life.
Accepting revisionist history. (In part by gaslighting)
Turning a blind eye to blatant lies.
Accepting intrusions into ones personal space/personal life.
Giving up privacy.
Either dodging or just plain not allowing people to ask certain questions.
Allowing no criticism of their program or philosophy.
In short, everything involved in installing and maintaining an authoritarian totalitarian regime.
"Really I think there's probably not a lot of difference from the same type of crowd manipulation that had thousands of people raising their hands and chanting "Sieg Heil" at Nuremburg. Or the two minute hate from Orwell's 1984 (chants of "Goldstein! Traitor!" followed glazed-eye admiration at the image of Big Brother)."
Yes, even though my experience at Landmark was more low-key it did seem that everything they did was geared toward the same kind of mentality that you would find with certain types of regimes.
I felt that they were grooming people into:
Accepting authority figures in areas of life where they have no business.
Giving up personal sovereignty and any control whatsoever over one's own life.
Accepting revisionist history. (In part by gaslighting)
Turning a blind eye to blatant lies.
Accepting intrusions into ones personal space/personal life.
Giving up privacy.
Either dodging or just plain not allowing people to ask certain questions.
Allowing no criticism of their program or philosophy.
In short, everything involved in installing and maintaining an authoritarian totalitarian regime.