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A lot of these treatment methodologies are descended from what was done at Synanon. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43uD12ooM7U is a good primer video on this.)
I was completely unaware of the existence of Elan School and I couldn't find much on the site that talks about what's going on unless you actually read the comic. Unfortunately it's the middle of the work day so I don't have time to read the comic right now but I wanted to know what it was about to know if I should come back to it. If you're in a similar boat: Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"thera…
> Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"therapeutic" boarding school in Maine that engaged in some extremely controversial practices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élan_School Not that I'm doubting any intentions here, but I think dressing this up as "extremely controversial" might be under-selling or burying the lede a bit. Had the practices (the ring, isolation, management structure) that occurred at…
War crimes are when you break the rules of war. America mistreating its own population does not amount to war crimes.
I was completely unaware of the existence of Elan School and I couldn't find much on the site that talks about what's going on unless you actually read the comic. Unfortunately it's the middle of the work day so I don't have time to read the comic right now but I wanted to know what it was about to know if I should come back to it. If you're in a similar boat: Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"thera…
> Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"therapeutic" boarding school in Maine that engaged in some extremely controversial practices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élan_School Not that I'm doubting any intentions here, but I think dressing this up as "extremely controversial" might be under-selling or burying the lede a bit. Had the practices (the ring, isolation, management structure) that occurred at…
One interesting side effect is that the author’s art is evolving as they write the episodes.
The scariest part for me is to think where else are things worse than that? I have led an extremely sheltered life by comparison.
I was completely unaware of the existence of Elan School and I couldn't find much on the site that talks about what's going on unless you actually read the comic. Unfortunately it's the middle of the work day so I don't have time to read the comic right now but I wanted to know what it was about to know if I should come back to it. If you're in a similar boat: Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"thera…
> Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"therapeutic" boarding school in Maine that engaged in some extremely controversial practices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élan_School Not that I'm doubting any intentions here, but I think dressing this up as "extremely controversial" might be under-selling or burying the lede a bit. Had the practices (the ring, isolation, management structure) that occurred at…
Warning : The read is really-long (multiple-hour), and potentially PTSD trigger inducing. Interesting but disturbing. Happy that such hell-hole is now closed. There is also a documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Darkness (available on Netflix) about the school.
I will second this -- I found it the other night and made it 8 pages in before it was too much to keep going
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In a lot of U.S. states now, the age is as high as 12. The U.S. has gone absolutely insane in the name of protecting children. And, if you dare question the wisdom of any of these policies, you're typically met with something like, "I guess you just want children to DIE". As an aside, there's also this creepy trend in the U.S. to refer to 15 and 16 year-olds as "children". If someone had referred to me as a child at…
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> Elan School was apparently a behavior modification/"therapeutic" boarding school in Maine that engaged in some extremely controversial practices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élan_School Not that I'm doubting any intentions here, but I think dressing this up as "extremely controversial" might be under-selling or burying the lede a bit. Had the practices (the ring, isolation, management structure) that occurred at…
While they are surely morally bankrupt and abhorrent, they aren't "war crimes of the highest order". Let's not dilute and devalue what war crimes are for internet punchiness when they are happening even today. War crimes are when you break the rules of war. America mistreating its own population does not amount to war crimes.
This is horrifying. Can we be sure something like this isn't still happening? Are there people trying to help stop this kind of thing? I don't even know where to start.
I made it only 20 slides into this comic. I didn’t have it this bad but it triggered memories of the high-control group (a term much better and more descriptive than “cult”) I used to be part of.
There’s definitely some tried and true methods of mentally destroying and controlling human beings.