Captive Minds : Beyond Hypnosis

Captive Minds : Beyond Hypnosis.

"Groups which have all powerful leaders who control the environment, control all information and eventually control the way their followers think, have one basic thing in common : They have found people who are willing to take that essential first step of surrendering to an authority figure they hope has all the answers.

Throughout history, many people have taken that first step. Sometimes joining a small group, sometimes a large group. And sometimes, a group that engulfs an entire nation."

That powerful statement above, concludes this very well naratted documentary that focuses on three case studies to reveal the striking similarities in the indoctrination methods each uses to achieve long-term effects.
 
It is a film that serves as a reminder that we are all vulnerable to persuasion and long-term conditioning, and one that provokes serious consideration of the far-reaching implications of any form of psychological manipulation. 

جنكيز خان - الجزيرة الوثائقية

كيف كون جنكيز خان دولته وحكمها بنظام المرتزقة 
وجهة نظر: تشابه القذافي وجنكيز خان في نظام المرتزقة
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKgOvE5Rpc

BBC Documentary - The Power of Nightmares

BBC Documentary - The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares: Three-part BBC documentary 


Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart? 

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. 

The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. 

In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. 

It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. 


At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. 
Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. 

These two groups have changed the world but not in the way either intended. 


Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror network. 
A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful. 

The rise of the politics of fear begins in 1949 with two men whose radical ideas would inspire the attack of 9/11 and influence the neo-conservative movement that dominates Washington. 

Both these men believed that modern liberal freedoms were eroding the bonds that held society together. 

The two movements they inspired set out, in their different ways, to rescue their societies from this decay. But in an age of growing disillusion with politics, the neo-conservatives turned to fear in order to pursue their vision. 

They would create a hidden network of evil run by the Soviet Union that only they could see. 

The Islamists were faced by the refusal of the masses to follow their dream and began to turn to terror to force the people to "see the truth"'.

BBC Documentary - The century of the self (Crowd Psychology)

The century of the self

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." -- Adam Curtis

-political control of population 

- mind control

- manipulation