I reading the 'Rascist Battlestar Galactica' thread and I got thinking about what if brainwashing improved too such an extent that certain thoughts about subjects are as programmed in as reflex actions or the need to breath.
What if after Korea the ideas of Chinese brainwashing became more prevalant in schools of thought/military circles/governments around the world?
The Chinese broke down captured american soldiers until they became puppets of the chinese and would give their fighting for them in the Korean war.
Dictators like Hitler had made people too afraid too doing anything that might be considered treacherous or even slightly odd.
The ww2 japanese had been able too create a mindset that meant a good deal of even civilian population would give their lives to do whatever their emprarer commanded.
All soceities/nations have used this mindset too varying degrees of success when at war or crises.
Brainwashing didn't exactly die out in democratic nations either.
The U.S during the cold war invented various drugs. One LSD, (yes the US army did invent acid) was meant to be used to poison enemy soldiers/opposing populations so they lost all will too fight.
Another U.S drug stopped all emotions in the subject for a few days. It was meant to be used on soldiers too mean they didn't have feelings of sorrow and sympathy for the people they were fighting. It wasn't used only because it actually limited combat effectiveness, e.g soldiers didn't care if their best friend just got shot and also didn't hate/be angry at the enemy.
The method that did work was some pschologist came into change the combat exercises. The result is now that nearly all trained soldiers can shoot at an enemy without feeling hesitation at the moment but only emotions about it afterwards.
So what if outright brainwashing became more common? Maybe instead of Kruschev a stalinist succesor is found.
The purges continue and the development of tech that controls what the population thinks is more common. In OTL the Soviet Union ended up being full of very cynical people.
With more research into Brainwashing smaller third-world dictatorships take it up and are more succesful in the short term.
The U.S/democratic nations wouldn't go for outright brainwashing but is more restrictive of the general thoughts of its armies/population. Not restrictive of free speech but say a nutcase religious group, is illegalised due too small breakings of laws, council planning etc than the gov. waiting till they do something drastic.
What would be the consequences, Soviet Union survives longer as North Korean type state but is less technollogically advanced (lesss creative people).
Less democratic nations in third-world? Democratic nations less liberal?
What if after Korea the ideas of Chinese brainwashing became more prevalant in schools of thought/military circles/governments around the world?
The Chinese broke down captured american soldiers until they became puppets of the chinese and would give their fighting for them in the Korean war.
Dictators like Hitler had made people too afraid too doing anything that might be considered treacherous or even slightly odd.
The ww2 japanese had been able too create a mindset that meant a good deal of even civilian population would give their lives to do whatever their emprarer commanded.
All soceities/nations have used this mindset too varying degrees of success when at war or crises.
Brainwashing didn't exactly die out in democratic nations either.
The U.S during the cold war invented various drugs. One LSD, (yes the US army did invent acid) was meant to be used to poison enemy soldiers/opposing populations so they lost all will too fight.
Another U.S drug stopped all emotions in the subject for a few days. It was meant to be used on soldiers too mean they didn't have feelings of sorrow and sympathy for the people they were fighting. It wasn't used only because it actually limited combat effectiveness, e.g soldiers didn't care if their best friend just got shot and also didn't hate/be angry at the enemy.
The method that did work was some pschologist came into change the combat exercises. The result is now that nearly all trained soldiers can shoot at an enemy without feeling hesitation at the moment but only emotions about it afterwards.
So what if outright brainwashing became more common? Maybe instead of Kruschev a stalinist succesor is found.
The purges continue and the development of tech that controls what the population thinks is more common. In OTL the Soviet Union ended up being full of very cynical people.
With more research into Brainwashing smaller third-world dictatorships take it up and are more succesful in the short term.
The U.S/democratic nations wouldn't go for outright brainwashing but is more restrictive of the general thoughts of its armies/population. Not restrictive of free speech but say a nutcase religious group, is illegalised due too small breakings of laws, council planning etc than the gov. waiting till they do something drastic.
What would be the consequences, Soviet Union survives longer as North Korean type state but is less technollogically advanced (lesss creative people).
Less democratic nations in third-world? Democratic nations less liberal?