Is Mind Control Different from the Ordinary Social Conditioning Employed by Parents and Social Institutions?
Yes. Ordinary social conditioning differs from mind control in two important ways. First, parents, schools, churches, and other organizations do not as a rule utilize unethically manipulative techniques in socializing children, adolescents, and young adults. Second, social conditioning is a slow process which promotes and encourages an initially “unformed” child to become an autonomous adult with a unique identity. Mind control, on the other hand, uses unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control to induce dependency in a person with an established identity, which the manipulator seeks to alter radically without the informed consent of his targets. The techniques with which a group or person seeks to influence another can be broken down into two categories: • choice-respecting, which includes techniques that honor the autonomy of the person being influenced; and • compliance-gaining, which includes techniques (examples given in the previous answer) focused on obtaining
