The negative side of Facebook & co: 1. Milieu control: Control of an individual’s communication with the external world, hence his or her perceptions of reality 2. Mystical manipulation: Evoking certain patterns of behavior and emotion in such a way that they seem to be spontaneous 3. The demand for purity: The belief that elements outside the chosen group should be eliminated to prevent them from contaminating the minds of group members 4. The cult of confession: The use of an insistence on confession to minimize individual privacy 5. Sacred science: Viewing the ideology’s basic dogmas as both morally unchallengeable and scientifically exact, thus increasing their apparent authority 6. Loading the language: Compressing complex ideas into brief, definitive-sounding phrases, “thought-terminating clichés” 7. The primacy of doctrine over person: The idea that a dogma is more true and more real than anything experienced by an individual human being 8. The dispensing of existence: The right to control the quality of life and eventual fate of both group members and non-members
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:04:12 +0000
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