The phenomenon of our times is methodical (aware, deliberate and organized) modification utilizing various forms of persuasion and intellectual force of people's erstwhile beliefs in favour of fresh ways of thinking, corresponding to the request for political power.
It is worth noting that institutions of specified power be in many social structures (state, political parties, churches and others), besides going beyond the borders of the states. Their goal is to radically transform minds, transforming their owners into marionettes, a kind of human robot, into prisoners only a just cause, or even incapacitated slaves.
This phenomenon became known as brainwashing. In all associations, it creates deep fear due to the fact that it threatens to lose freedom and even identity. People usually imagine themselves as free, intelligent, and able to make independent decisions. Meanwhile, it turns out that we are all susceptible to various forced persuasions and perfidious intellectual manipulations, causing deep demolition in personality, frequently of an irreversible nature.
The word “brainwashing” appeared during the Korean War, erstwhile hidden under this name techniques were applied to American soldiers taken prisoner. any of the prisoners of war who were released from the camps seemed to be steeped in the ideology of the enemy. This was like the phenomenon of prisoners forced to worship their persecutors. It was described by a CIA associate and war correspondent Edward huntsman (1902-1978), first in the article and then in the book Brainwashing. He attributed this “invention” to the Chinese communists, though the traditions of “cleaning and purifying the mind” date back to the times of Meng K’o, known in the West as Mentius, a Confucian thinker from the 4th century B.C.E.
In the common sense, brainwashing is associated with magical “psychotechnics”, utilized in spiritual sects, taking complete control of the minds of believers. The demonstration processes of erstwhile communist activists in the Stalinist russian Union, in which zealous self-criticism and self-criticism were submitted, denying their full achievements, were besides attributed to the mysterious procedures that the totalitarian government applied to its own citizens, little frequently foreigners.
In the United States, a day of Makkartism, the phenomenon of “brainwashing” was a clear thought of “red plague” and served to fuel widespread hostility towards communism.. It corresponded to the old ideas of witchcraft and demon possession, while at the same time perfectly diverting attention from the various “sins” of the Americans themselves, specified as the tragic effects of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The charge of brainwashing allowed America to shift work to individual else and dismiss the request for a critical look at itself.
In time, brainwashing began to be attributed to the effects of various forms of mass intimidation, including the usage of terror. uncovering yourself in an emergency situation, in utmost circumstances, violent abuse and harassment, threats to life and health, failure of self-sterility in collision with sophisticated technology of degradation of humanity, can origin people to despair, but besides intellectual destruction.
War literature has long provided insights about various syndromes, the fallout of veterans and combatants, and this in a tense state, and this in a war stress, incapable to explain the essence of these phenomena. rather contemporary, following Western intervention expeditions to Iraq and Afghanistan, besides in relation to Polish soldiers returning from exotic expeditions and “treasure expeditions”, the name “post-traumatic stress syndrome” began to be used. The traumatic experience of war in both soldiers and civilians leads to many personality disorders of the character of neurosis and psychosis.
The problem, however, does not boil down to the personality crisis of the victims. Rather, it means an alarming increase in susceptibility to propaganda suggestions from those who usage these treatments. They frequently have the character of a "mental rape" in the name of new, only "correct" values and patterns of behaviour. The state-organized and state-controlled folly of full societies began in totalitarian systems, but besides reached the massive scale of the Democratic West.
We are now witnessing the usage of the word "brainwashing" in various situations, erstwhile we want to emphasize the strong nature of attempts to influence the minds of others, not only through pushy propaganda, but besides by insistent advertising, media manipulation, idealized education, fanatical religion, and even a strategy of treatment in psychiatry or gynaecology, based, for example, on alleged conscience clauses.
Brutalizing the ideological struggle...
It casts a gloomy shadow on modern global relations. What was a memory of the “cold war” was revived in a fresh form before our eyes. As part of the “modernization” of societies that have liberated themselves from the oppression of totalitarian systems, political and propaganda machines of the Western planet have for 3 decades inspired and organized a systematic action to “return” the citizens of post-communist countries, including the russian states, to only right views. The West succeeded, despite its various handicaps, to convince the large masses of the population to their “mythical” values, compelled by the magic of the “free world” and subjected to sophisticated forms of control.
Due to the war in Ukraine, there has been an intensification of the collective “brainwashing” by imposing on the unprecedented scale of false filters the perception of the situation. cognition based on facts was replaced by religion in fact revealed by “world leadership.” The United States felt that it could not only change the geopolitical affiliations of governments, but besides organize public opinion internationally according to its communicative and its script.
Unlike many conflicts in the world, this war has been marked by an unprecedented altruistic response. On an unprecedented scale, fresh technologies of communication, message and persuasion, as well as indoctrination, the request for humanitarian loyalty and emotional selfless solidarity towards Ukraine were induced in humans. It did not substance that the Ukrainian State had much to do with democracy, the regulation of law or the protection of human rights. That in a civilized sense, as he pointed out Samuel Huntington, It belongs to a completely different communicative and that it itself doomed to face a powerful neighbor. The outbreak of pro-war enthusiasm hindered the appropriate knowing of the situation and the effort to halt escalation. fewer people care about the fact about this cruel war, it is crucial to defeat the aggressor at all costs in the name of “higher” interests and values.
All or nothing.
Interestingly, human attitudes in Poland and the solidarity states with Ukraine find the tendency of totalitarian regimes to think and act in terms of extremes "all or nothing". Uncompromisingness and tenacity became synonymous with “collective wisdom,” regardless of war losses and human suffering. Who knows if the next generations agree with today's politicians? If the cost of engaging in the war exceeds the resilience of societies, the full Ukrainian brawl will take the name of a disaster committed by madmen.
Conscious manipulation was the internationalization of the war in Ukraine. Treated by Hungary in terms of the clashes between the 2 Slavic nations, Western manipulators think it has become an almost "common war of democracy" with "Kremlin autocracy". From the thoughtless call "this is our war" was made a example of recognition on the only right side. War has become a pretext for political and economical abuse, for creating cognitive confusion, hypocritical usage of censorship, and even limiting access to unruly media.
People, first the ruling and then the masses, were told that Poles must support Ukraine even at the expense of their own security, not to mention tremendous material sacrifices, intellectual disforcing and expanding uncertainty. On the 1 hand, brainwashing took the form of mass disinformation about the sources of the increasing conflict in Ukraine, starting with the alleged orange revolution. Restricting Russian pretenses to rebuild the power influences has become the basis of the Western Crusade for the “derusification” of the russian space.
In the name of spreading freedom and democracy, all means of intellectual force to free themselves of the poison of the imperialist urges of Russia became acceptable. Today, even students of global relations do not accept what an American diplomat revealed a fewer years ago. Victoria Nuland on the multi-billion (dollar) U.S. engagement in Ukraine. fewer people besides know the contents of the Minsk agreements and do not wonder why the authorities in Kiev were not accounted for for their omission. It is best to address all charges against Russia and blame Putin unequivocally, which clearly relieves the remaining participants of the conflict from any responsibility.
On the another hand, there has been a ludicrous informing in political and media space since 2008 by the then president of the Republic of Poland. Lech Kaczyński in Tbilisi, that Russia will launch its ‘domin theory’ by attacking further east European and then Central European states. And not a word about the fact that the Americans began to build and strengthen their sphere of influence. Now Ukrainian politicians are blackmailing the full western part of Europe, that if Ukraine falls, Russian tanks will be heading for Warsaw, Vilnius, Tallinn or Riga sooner or later. All European societies and their elites request to do their best to fear the Russian invasion. Regardless of how Russia truly behaves and what strategical doctrine it has.
To prove the absurdity of the ongoing "brainwashing" it is adequate to ask how the situation in east Europe would make if American war planners had not chosen to grow in the russian space as their goal. Countries and their societies have the right to establish themselves, including their own alliance affiliations, but this is not an imperative and absolute norm. They must have their own possibilities and, above all, their ability to make peace with their neighbors.. Bearing in head Russia's strategical sensitivity, it was hard to anticipate that it would not respond furiously to the approach to its limits of the Atlantic Hegemon forces and his commanded alliance.
Enabling nationalist and anti-Russian sentiments in Ukraine, building a climate of non-continence, based on the arming of the Ukrainian army, training and training of soldiers, and above all the "during" about the anticipation of demolishing Russia's military capabilities, led to a full failure of conciliation. There would be no war in Ukraine if the widely understood West and the United States had taken the lead actively and honestly into the peace process after the election success Zelenski Volodymira In 2019, the U.S., alternatively of supporting nationalist and far-right circles, could supply effective support to Zelensk himself and persuade him to agree with Putin. According to British Russian scientist Richard Sakwa, it was adequate to make peace with Russia by saying 5 words: "Ukraine will not join NATO".
Ukraine victim of the USA
You don't should be a dry analyst to not see the absurd American strategy that was imposed on the Euratlantic community. After all, Ukraine is not an crucial state for the safety of Western Europe, much little for the US. The aspirations of Ukraine and its society regarding integration into the West can be appreciated, but it must besides be made aware of the real possibilities and a long way to complete this process. The focus on fast and unconditional accession and binding to Western structures proved not only to be a dangerous and risky game, but ended tragically for Ukraine itself. Her elites and citizens have fallen victim to the enchantment with the mythology of the happy and prosperous West, who will freely share his happiness and prosperity with them. Naïveness does not explain the harm the Ukrainian leaders have done to their nation. Ukraine, therefore, awaits not only the time of postwar disappointments but besides the sad accounts.
The war was caused by the blinding of any of the American elites, and above all many officials and politicians in the state and defence departments, in NATO executives, many media commentators and advisors and assistants to president Biden. Americans – like anyone else – with their "living interests" in the immediate vicinity in the Western Hemisphere and rich experience of responding to threats from there could easy foretell what Russia's response, conditioned by its existential threat, would be. She was warned by the then US Ambassador to Russia and the current CIA chief in 2008. William Burns, comparing Ukraine's drag to the western side to exceed the "most red of red lines", applicable to Russian existence.
The folly and blindness of the rulers may consequence in expanding dementia and morbidity. There is no wise solution. There is no warrant that a military solution to the conflict will bring peace. That is why we should quote words Benjamin Abelov, author of the Polish brochure entitled How the West waged war in Ukraine (Wroclaw 2023) to halt cheating and launch a peaceful global diplomatic initiative as shortly as possible. "Decidators in Washington and European capitals along with enslaved, cowardly media that uncritically propagate their nonsense – are now standing in a barrel of sticky mud. They were stupid adequate to go in there, now let them find wisdom adequate to get out before they knocked over the barrel so that the mud pouring out of it would flood the rest. It's hard to imagine."
No diagnosis of the global situation will be actual or nonsubjective unless it is taken into account and named after all the expansionist and dominant tendencies in the modern world. prof. Zbigniew Rau and its ministerial assistants should know this by writing the text of his last seismic speech. Otherwise, each wise observer will see a immense dissonance in the appreciation of "good" and "bad" imperialisms. Furthermore, erstwhile declaring our will to accomplish peace, it is worth remembering the old informing that through a fierce fight for peace, we will lead to common demolition and destruction. And in blind solidarity with the Kiev regime, “we will fight to the last Ukrainian”.
Due to the expanding cost of Poland's war engagement, at least any political forces should review their position as shortly as possible, in line with expanding social expectations. A cardinal mistake was made, placing everything on 1 scale. The inclusion of Poland in the Western War (whether in Iraq or Afghanistan) did not bring any benefits. Similarly, it will end with participation in the war in Ukraine at the expense of its citizens, the deregulation of the economy and the failure of self-sterility. The “grain scandal” shows how easy it was to fall into a “collective folly” trap without calculating the hazard of its own losses and humiliations.
The paradox of Polish politics is to render it to the service of the American hegemon, contrary to experience, rational accounting and sound sense. It is not a serious state whose ruling elites and servile commentators emphasize that the top accomplishment of Polish diplomacy is the zealous implementation of American interests. It is expected to be undisputed to an ally who is the only 1 who can warrant the safety of Poland. So, alternatively of ghastly swarms of unforeseeable Polish-Ukrainian union and returning to the erstwhile multinational model of statehood, why not consider the formal association “for good and bad” with the celebrated political establishment of the Americanum Empire, despite the “Big Puddle” that divides us?
Prof. Stanisław Bielen
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Think Poland, No. 17-18 (23-30.04.2023)
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