Category: Culture
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Big Brother Depends on Little Brothers
Dutch-American psychiatrist, Joost Meerloo escaped from a Nazi prison in occupied Holland. His book, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, explores how totalitarian societies brainwash their citizens. Written in post-WWII 1956, Meerloo provides timeless lessons for resisting authoritarian pressures in contemporary times. […]
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Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed
A Study on the Abolition of Man By Cynthia Chung In 2018 Yuval Harari delivered a presentation to the World Economic Forum titled “Will the Future Be Human?” In his presentation, Harari seemed to be confirming our very worst fears of a dystopic future right out of a sci-fi movie. That we risked annihilating ourselves…
