How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
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#2Cialdini's book is one of the best and most readable pieces of popular science writing ever. It's fascinating from start to finish, frequently hilarious, and pretty hard to summarize because there's so much cool stuff in it.
The brainwashing scare from the Korean War is central to at least one classic movie, The Manchurian Candidate (1962). It was unavailable for 25 years, which rumor had it was because of its similarity to the JFK assassination (it's not that similar, really). If you like old thrillers and haven't seen it, see it—it's just great!
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Re: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique
#4Cialdini's book is one of the best and most readable pieces of popular science writing ever. It's fascinating from start to finish, frequently hilarious, and pretty hard to summarize because there's so much cool stuff in it. The brainwashing scare from the Korean War is central to at least one classic movie, The Manchurian Candidate (1962). It was unavailable for 25 years, which rumor had it was because of its simila…
Interesting, this looks like proof that truth is stranger than fiction. After reading a lot of WW II thrillers, this seems surreal.
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#5If an American POW comes back to the US and says the US was the aggressor in the Korean War, he does not have an opinion, he has been "brainwashed". What kind of mental gymnastics do I have to perform to think this way. It's about a step removed from saying someone who denies Jesus Is Lord has been possessed by a demon. Or the same thing really.
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#6I wonder if the 'foot in the door' technique was just used on me to get me to buy the book....
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#7I wonder if the 'foot in the door' technique was just used on me to get me to buy the book....
because if it was, it worked....
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#8I wonder if the 'foot in the door' technique was just used on me to get me to buy the book....
If the techniques described in the book have been used to make me buy the book then it is a good purchase.
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#9I thought america WAS the aggressor? (Korea isn't really near the US), and it was quite apparent the US wanted satellite states near russia/china, to potentially launch further attacks.
Also did the communists do a bad job in china? That is at most controversial... not "brain washed".
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#10This foot-in-the-door techniques and many other things have been covered beautifully in an ongoing course https://www.coursera.org/course/socialpsychology.
It is about to be over. I do recommend going through the videos. There is a lot to learn.