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*Vernor Vinge speculates on the application of [[technology]] to achieve brainwashing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End Rainbows End] (ISBN 0-312-85684-9), portraying separately the dangers of JITT (Just-in-time training) and the specter of YGBM (You gotta believe me). This picks up on themes of "mindrot" and controlled "Focus" in Vinge's 1999 [[novel]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky A Deepness in the Sky].
*Vernor Vinge speculates on the application of [[technology]] to achieve brainwashing in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End Rainbows End] (ISBN 0-312-85684-9), portraying separately the dangers of JITT (Just-in-time training) and the specter of YGBM (You gotta believe me). This picks up on themes of "mindrot" and controlled "Focus" in Vinge's 1999 [[novel]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky A Deepness in the Sky].
==Video media==
==Video media==
Brainwashing became a common trope of [[films]], television and [[games]] in the late t[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century]: a convenient means of introducing [[changes]] in the [[behavior]] of characters and a device for raising [[tension]] and [[audience]] uncertainty in the climate of [[Cold War]] and outbreaks of [[terrorism]]. For a [[classic]] example:
Brainwashing became a common trope of [[films]], television and [[games]] in the late t[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century]: a convenient means of introducing [[changes]] in the [[behavior]] of characters and a device for raising [[tension]] and [[audience]] uncertainty in the climate of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War Cold War] and outbreaks of [[terrorism]]. For a [[classic]] example:
*the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate makes the concept of brainwashing a central theme. Specifically, Communist brainwashers turn a soldier into an assassin through something akin to hypnosis.
*the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate makes the concept of brainwashing a central theme. Specifically, Communist brainwashers turn a soldier into an assassin through something akin to hypnosis.
==See also==
==See also==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA MKULTRA]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA MKULTRA]