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Lessing schrijft dat ze zich er over verbaast hoe weinig aandacht er is voor het fenomeen hersenspoeling. Dat was toen nog een begrip. Mensen die in een communistisch systeem zaten werden gehersenspoeld. Sektes hersenspoelden hun leden. Maar het reikte veel verder. Het ging er om dat mensen opvattingen aannamen die aantoonbaar onjuist waren en daar vervolgens niet meer vanaf te brengen bleken. Dat is nog steeds het geval.
Hersenspoeling, schrijft Lessing, bevat drie elementen. De eerste is het creëren van vrees en spanning “het land gaat ten onder”, afgewisseld met ontspanning, “de zon gaat weer schijnen.” Het tweede element is herhaling. Steeds maar weer hetzelfde zeggen, roepen, schreeuwen, zingen. Het derde is het terugbrengen van de complexe werkelijkheid tot simpele slogans. “Grenzen dicht”.
Als je PVV-stemmers ziet als mensen die gehersenspoeld zijn, verandert het perspectief. In het publieke debat worden ze nooit zo bekeken. Daar zijn het ontevreden kiezers of racisten. Zelden worden ze neergezet als slachtoffers van misleiding.
Lees mijn opinie: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/zo-worden-de-pvv-stemmers-nooit-gezien
Hersenspoeling, schrijft Lessing, bevat drie elementen. De eerste is het creëren van vrees en spanning “het land gaat ten onder”, afgewisseld met ontspanning, “de zon gaat weer schijnen.” Het tweede element is herhaling. Steeds maar weer hetzelfde zeggen, roepen, schreeuwen, zingen. Het derde is het terugbrengen van de complexe werkelijkheid tot simpele slogans. “Grenzen dicht”.
Als je PVV-stemmers ziet als mensen die gehersenspoeld zijn, verandert het perspectief. In het publieke debat worden ze nooit zo bekeken. Daar zijn het ontevreden kiezers of racisten. Zelden worden ze neergezet als slachtoffers van misleiding.
Lees mijn opinie: https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/zo-worden-de-pvv-stemmers-nooit-gezien
This is a brief collection of essays delivered in 1987 by Doris Lessing for the Massey Lectures, a Canadian Broadcasting system series on communicating results of research to the broader public. Lessing focused on research from social psychology and social anthropology. Lessing saw possibility in improving the human condition if people could learn about the impact that the groups we live in, the society we belong to have on our ability for independent thought and action.
As always I trust and appreciate Lessing's self-righteousness. She is committed to the dignity of each individual, to democracy, to the importance of self-expression and she makes this argument through all of her books and with all of her public presentations. These lectures were meandering and I felt that they were so informal that they seemed unedited, sort of just off the cuff. The message is great but the delivery is not Lessing at her best. Also, the lectures seemed quite dated.
As always I trust and appreciate Lessing's self-righteousness. She is committed to the dignity of each individual, to democracy, to the importance of self-expression and she makes this argument through all of her books and with all of her public presentations. These lectures were meandering and I felt that they were so informal that they seemed unedited, sort of just off the cuff. The message is great but the delivery is not Lessing at her best. Also, the lectures seemed quite dated.
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inspiring
medium-paced
Short and impactful read centered on social psychology, group think, and seeing history objectively and using it to shape our idea of what society should be like in the future. It is a book of tragedy, but also hope. A beautiful little read to invoke resistance to societal pressures.
To create and maintain freedom, democracy, liberty, we need to do more than just talk about it. By learning and applying lessons from sociology, the laws of group and individual psychology we can better ourselves and stop repeating the same mistakes we have been for hundreds of years. Governments are using this information malevolently against us, so as individuals, we need to question received opinion, think for ourselves and stop following the crowd.
"Looking back over my life, which has now lasted sixty-six years, what I see is a succession of great mass events, boilings up of emotion, of wild partisan passion, that pass, but while they last it is not possible to do more than think: 'These slogans, or these accusations, these claims, these trumpetings, quite soon they will seem to everyone ridiculous and even shameful.' Meanwhile, it is not possible to say so."
Yeah, she used the word 'trumpetings.' In 1986.
Yeah, she used the word 'trumpetings.' In 1986.
This is my second Doris Lessing book and this time, a collection of 5 plainly spoken, clarion, revolutionary essays about how we think. Not for a second romantic or rose coloured, but never far from compassion or progress or hope. Ms. Lessing urges acceptance of our "animal" ways, and such internalisation of our brutal groupthink instincts that we grow our societies and ourselves in ways that we've not been able to. I love how she elevates the social sciences as essential tools for understanding ourselves, but mostly I love her honouring of literature (no bias here:) as integral and revealing a field as history. I believe her arguments would appear as compelling to the cynics as to the idealists because she understands and explains the human condition so well. I wish everyone would read this little book. Dhaka, Jan. 2009