Brainwashing Process

https://www.learning-mind.com/brainwashing-techniques/

Brainwashing is a process by which a person or group uses underhand methods to persuade others to the will of the person who is manipulating them.

Crowd speeches: provoke a ‘yes’ response, then add things that are true facts, and finally suggest what you want them to do.

Steps:

1. Isolation

 isolate the victim away from their friends and family

2. Attacks on self-esteem

The victim has to be broken down so that the manipulator (in a superior position) can start rebuilding them in the image they desire. Attacks could be in the form of ridiculing or mocking the victim, or intimidation.

3. Mental abuse

Tell the victims lies and then embarrass them with the truth in front of others, or they could bully their victims by badgering them and not allowing them any personal space.

4. Physical abuse

Sleep deprivation, keeping them cold and hungry, actual bodily harm through violent behaviour. There are also other more subtle ways that a manipulator can use, such as keeping noise levels up, having lights that flicker on and off all the time, and lowering or raising the temperature in the room.

5. Repetitive music

Studies have shown that if you play a repetitive beat, most ideally one that ranges from 45 to 72 beats per minute, you can induce an extremely hypnotic state. This is because that repetition is very close to the rhythm of the beat of a human heart.

This rhythm can alter your consciousness until you have reached what is known as an Alpha state, where you are 25 times more suggestible as you would be in a Beta state.

6. Only allowing contact with other brainwashed members

By only allowing contact with those who are already brainwashed, the manipulator is creating a situation whereby peer pressure comes into play. Everybody wants to be liked and accepted, especially if they are the new member of the group. Adhering and promoting what the other members are saying and doing means that they will be accepted.

7. Us vs. Them

Again, this is all about being accepted into a group, and the best group as well. By saying that there is an Us and a Them, the manipulator is immediately offering the victim the chance to choose which group they want to belong to. Their goal is now to achieve absolute obedience and loyalty.

8. Love Bombing

This is a tactic whereby the victim is drawn into the group by physical touching, sharing intimate thoughts and emotional bonding, all through excessive affection and constant validation.

Study by neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor: After reviewing the neural effects of brainwashed victims, she discovered that they had more rigid neural pathways than others. Brainwashed people find it hard to rethink their situation once they have been brainwashed.

Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated".

• The manipulator offers you a number of choices, but the choices all lead to the same conclusion.
• The same idea or phrase is frequently repeated to make sure it sticks in your brain.
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• Intense intelligence-dampening is performed by providing you with constant short snippets of information on various subjects. This trains you to have a short memory, makes the amount of information feel overwhelming, and the answers provided by the manipulator to be highly desired due to how overwhelmed you feel.
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• Emotional manipulation is used to put you in a heightened state, as this makes it harder for you to employ logic. Inducing fear and anger are among the most popular manipulated emotions.

News channels and political parties often repeat a consistent message when they want to get their point across. 

Your best bet is to surround yourself with a spectrum of information rather than simply settling for the message that makes you feel comfortable.

(https://lifehacker.com/5886571/brainwashing-techniques-you-encounter-every-day-and-how-to-avoid-them)

• Reverse psychology: 'don't think about elephants.'

• Never Talk About the Idea—Talk Around It

• Undersell
• The takeaway close

https://lifehacker.com/5715912/how-to-plant-ideas-in-someones-mind

often referred to as thought reform, falls into the sphere of "social influence."

In the late 1950s, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton studied former prisoners of Korean War and Chinese war camps. He determined that they'd undergone a multistep process that began with attacks on the prisoner's sense of self and ended with what appeared to be a change in beliefs. Lifton ultimately defined a set of steps involved in the brainwashing cases he studied:

1. Assault on identity
2. Guilt
3. Self-betrayal
4. Breaking point
5. Leniency
6. Compulsion to confess
7. Channeling of guilt
8. Releasing of guilt
9. Progress and harmony
10. Final confession and rebirth

from its use in 1950 by journalist Edward Hunter and its later usage as applied to the spheres of cults, marketing, influence, thought reform, torture, and reeducation.

connections between neurons become stronger when exposed to incoming signals of frequency and intensity.

 isolating the individual and controlling their access to information, challenging their belief structure and creating doubt, and repeating messages in a pressurized environment

FACET stands for Freedom, Agency, Complexity, Ends-not-means, and Thinking

It's our faulty neurons, a result of genetics and our life circumstances and experiences, instead.

 If you could induce a perpetual state of happiness and contentedness (artificially) say through some new neuro-scientific procedure...would you?

Psychological warfare: 

• Demoralization:
  • Distributing pamphlets that encourage desertion or supply instructions on how to surrender
  • large circulation newspapers and posters/ airborne leaflets or through explosive delivery systems like modified artillery or mortar rounds
  • Shock and awe military strategy
  • Projecting repetitive and annoying sounds and music for long periods at high volume towards groups under siege like during Operation Nifty Package
• Propaganda radio stations, such as Lord Haw-Haw in World War II on the "Germany calling" station
• Renaming cities and other places when captured, such as the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City after Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War
• False flag events
• Use of loudspeaker systems to communicate with enemy soldiers
• Terrorism
• The threat of chemical weapon

Lerner also divides psychological warfare operations into three categories:

• White propaganda (Omissions and Emphasis): Truthful and not strongly biased, where the source of information is acknowledged.
• Grey propaganda (Omissions, Emphasis and Racial/Ethnic/Religious Bias): Largely truthful, containing no information that can be proven wrong; the source is not identified.
• Black propaganda (Commissions of falsification): Inherently deceitful, information given in the product is attributed to a source that was not responsible for its creation.