Mass Psychology by Bertrand Russell

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"...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. ... As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise.”

- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1960.

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IP wrote:: "...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. ... As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise.”

- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1960.

The Soviet Union??

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ScoutsHonor wrote:

IP wrote:: "...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. ... As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise.”

- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1960.

The Soviet Union??

That would be my guess as well. Only other country I might put on that list would be North Korea.

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Yes, N. Korea would be a good guess, I suspect.

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Subject: Re: Mass Psychology by Bertrand Russell Wed 02 Dec 2009, 12:51 am

I've suspected that N Korea is just a massive mind control experiment.

As if it all isn't anyway, eh?

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ramallamamama wrote:: I've suspected that N Korea is just a massive mind control experiment.

As if it all isn't anyway, eh?

A friend's grown daughter, who is a lawyer, just got back from N. Korea and said she didn't like it at all. Very dark, she said... referring to people's life energy. Guess it is the manifestation of Huxley.

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so no one followed that up to find out what country he was referring to? in all these years? that's a scary (enlightening) book:

"Education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."

Russell, B. (1953). The Impact of Science on Society (1st Printing ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.., 1953, p. 50

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Sounds like the USA to me

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Infidel1683 wrote:: Sounds like the USA to me

HA,-to me, also.

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Infidel1683 wrote:: Sounds like the USA to me

Unfortunately, you are correct. Not sure if you're in the USA or not, but it's become very much 3rd world.

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