Joost A.M. Meerloo Quote on Culture and Manipulation

„Every culture institutionalizes certain forms of behavior that communicate and encourage certain forms of thinking and acting, thus moulding the character of its citizens. To the degree that the individual is made an object of constant mental manipulation, to the degree that cultural institutions may tend to weaken intellectual and spiritual strength, to the degree that knowledge of the mind is used to tame and condition people instead of educating them, to that degree does the culture itself produce men and women who are predisposed to accept an authoritarian way of life.“

Joost A.M. MeerlooJoost A.M. Meerloo explains how culture promotes authoritarian lifestyles through mental manipulation.
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Joost A.M. Meerloo was a Dutch-American psychiatrist and author known for his work on psychological manipulation and totalitarian regimes.

Joost A.M. Meerloo warns about mental manipulation by cultural institutions and its effect on accepting authoritarian ways of life.


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Quote by Joost A.M. Meerloo about culture, manipulation, and authoritarianism

Joost A.M. Meerloo (1903–1976) was a prominent psychiatrist and writer especially known for his critical analysis of totalitarian systems and psychological warfare. He emigrated to the US and published numerous books on psychological control and manipulation.

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"The most effective form of control is to make people adopt predetermined ideas as their own beliefs. Religions, cultures, traditions, and politics are constructs and dogmas that shape the perception, thinking, and behavior of the masses." Unbekannt
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"In order to tame people into the desired pattern, victims must be brought to a point where they have lost their alert consciousness and mental awareness. Freedom of discussion and free intellectual exchange hinder conditioning. Feelings of terror, feelings of fear and hopelessness, of being alone, of standing with one's back to the wall, must be instilled" Joost A.M. Meerloo
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"Continual suggestion and slow hypnosis in the wake of mechanical mass communication promotes uniformity of the mind and may lure the public into the "happy era" of adjustment, integration and equalization, in which individual opinion is completely stereotyped (or strawmanned/made a caricature of)." Joost A.M. Meerloo
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"It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and compliance or otherwise, is conditioned rather early in life." Joost A.M. Meerloo
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"The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality." Erich Fromm
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"The shackles of mental control, perceptual filtering and cultural conditioning are harder to throw off today than ever before. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever seen. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our entire consciousness seems to be subtly and relentlessly erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely controlled. It is an exhaustive and endless task to constantly explain to people how most things of their everyday wisdom are scientifically planted in the public consciousness via a thousand media clips." Dr. Tim O’Shea
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