Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, MD Quotes (15 Quotes)

... well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

Political demagoguery is, to some extent, a problem in our country. The particular form this demagoguery takes is only a passing phase, and when our current dragons and inner phantoms have been laid to rest, the eternal demagogue will arise anew. He will accuse others of conspiracy in order to prove his own importance. He will try to intimidate those who are neither so iron-fisted nor so hotheaded as he, and temporarily he will drag some people into the web of his delusions. Perhaps he will even wear a mantle of martyrdom to arouse the tears of the weak-hearted. With his emotionalism and suspicion, he will shatter the trust of citizens in one another.

As long as there is more dread of life then fear of death, death will tempt people with the promise of greater security then they can find in this lifetime unless and until such time as we are able to teach man to accept and embrace his own destiny.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

The many meanings of 'I Love You' 'I love you' is a statement that can be expressed in so many varied ways. It may be a stage song, repeated daily without any meaning, or a barely audible murmur, full of surrender. Sometimes it means I desire you or I want you sexually. It may mean I hope you love me or I hope that I will be able to love you. Often it means it may be that a love relationship can develop between us or even I hate you. Often it is a wish for emotional exchange I want your admiration in exchange for mine or I give my love in exchange for some passion or I want to feel cozy and at home with you or I admire some of your qualities. A declaration of love is mostly a request I desire you or I want you to gratify me, or I want your protection or I want to be intimate with you or I want to exploit your loveliness. Sometimes it is the need for security and tenderness, for parental treatment. It may mean my self love goes out to you. But it may also express submissiveness please take me as I am, or I feel guilty about you, I want, through you, to correct the mistakes I have made in human relations. It may be self-sacrifice and a masochistic wish for dependency. However, it may also be a full affirmation of the other, taking the responsibility for mutual exchange of feelings. It may be a weak feeling of friendliness, it may be the scarcely even whispered expression of ecstasy 'I love you, ' - wish, desire, submission, conquest it is never the world itself that tells the real meaning here.

The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.

Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be possible to understand one another Is real communication possible if word and language betray us every time Shall, in the end, only the language of tanks and guns prevail and not human reason and understanding.

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planningthen we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.

Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and implant a fixed pattern in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda technique, and the polls are a verification of the temporary successful action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind.

Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response, while others learned more quickly when the penalty for not learning was a painful stimulus.

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-dont-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.