KEY TO BPJ.IifT ASHING
By Pro Ruth Alexander
(Editor's Notes Following is the first
article in a series on the theories of
Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pav-
, -' v ' r as they are used by the Communists in
the •*old n war and to "brainwash" capture
ed American troops.)
One of our greatest weaknesses is our
addiction to slogans. Our slipshod "ed
ucation, 11 with its emphasis on trumpet
tooting and life adjustment, has rendered
us incapable of pure thought and has
crested in us a genuine hostility toward
any word, symbol or concept that smacks
of the intellectual process.
Take the absurd slogan "brain-washing"
for instance. It is a meaningless quick
ie dreamed up by.some smart alec, yet it
epitomizes the little we know about the
Pavlovian stresses practiced ceaselessly
upon us by the Communists.
If our POWs in the Korean T ' T ar had been
thoroughly familarized with Pavlovian
techniques, they might have been able to
resist their apparent unpredictability.
Suspense, itself, is a form of shock
and, being inexcusably unprepared for
the pattern of Pavlovian degenerative
psychology, our boys were sitting ducks
for shock. Their wills were paralysed
and Korea was the first war in our once"
proud history where few, if any, sucess
ful prison breaks were engineered by
escapees, who had had it.
We excused them by claiming they were
"brainwashed," but not a man in a million
had the foggiest idea of what he meant
by this superficial euphemism for the
complicated but scientifically reputable
theory and practice of the conditioned
reflex .
It has been some ten years nov; since
Korea. Our people are becoming slowl-’,
painlessly and reluctantly aware of the
minimal doctrines of communism and its
grandiose determination to conquer the
world. But fen have’ had the intellectual
curios!by to dissect the Pavlovian base
of "brainwashing" or to relate it to be
haviorism, the basis of our welfare a Gate
and all other degrees of socialism.
Pavloyian techniques are net only the
basis of so-'called h- , n:.i. , -v;,'esLi,ua, J
are ?,j so the key 'em Soc'-et pi .
We call the "coIOT -.var ‘ uho bridle for
men’s minds J 1 let wo ware it as flip
pantly as the Kodison /..venue boys wage
the battle of status for the status seek
ers fl
The Russians, on the other hand, have
built their strategy on the premises and
conclusions of the great Russian physio
logist , Ivan Petrovich Fsvlov, (lG'49 ~
1936) - world famous for his research on
digestive and cerebral activity and his
theory of conditioned reliexes, Nobel
prize winner, 1904, director of the Rus
sian Academy of .Medicine,, the Institute
sf Experimental Medicine, and honorary
fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
in London.
Since 1!;T orId ' !7 ar I, which established
the Communist system in October (old Sty
le) 1917, all Ru ssian consultants on
psychological warfare have been scienti
fic experts highly versed in Pavlovian
theory.
Hence, nothing on our enemy's side
"happens" accidentally. But we continue
to play the "cold" war by ear and public
ize it by slogans.
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The election isn't very far off
when a candidate can recognize you
across the street. ‘ v
>a panda.
KIN HUBBARD