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Cult Classics
Cult classics are works of fiction that are extremely popular with a select audience but which may or may not have been successful at the time of the works' original publications.
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The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.
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― Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
― Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.
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― Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
― Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
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