I was reading this interesting article in TIme magazine about how our maximum security prisons drive prisoners crazy, which doesn't help if they get out because they were already problematic people, This is mainly because the prisoners are deprived of the ability to tell what day it is, and left in hoods with sound blocking headphones and such. Apparently disorientation and constant abuse, very handy for breaking someone down and known to cause unpleasant side effects, especially when the person comes home to an abusive family. Drugs are good too, if you are the KGB. I was also reading this great book about brainwashing, PV uses a lot of the techniques, many of which were developed by unpleasant shrinks. I'm not joking, it sounds loopy but go look up history of brainwashing its creepy but interesting, and relevant. THere are many parrallels to PV. Drugging, constant, disorienting abuse, mantras of shame, and so on, being timed going to the bathroom? Lights left on all the time, being thrown to the floor and sat on by eight porcine, good world zen, counsilors for hours, hours, while they choke on tears. Everyone cries like children in there. It's idiotic, PV pretends to help "trouble" youth and then it systematically abuses them, I think past the point put out in the Geneva convention, especially for non convicted, placed there by abusive parents people. . So basically PV is taking troubled youth, a few gay kids, molestation victims and a foster kid or two and abusing them to the point of brainwashing techniques, right down to the drugs and the constant disorienting harassment. This is supposted to do what? Make a chemically depressed teen who ate ten asprin better able to function in the world? I think the strongest arguement for my complete sanity is what I live under and how I react to it. I'm not even especially angry, I just want my life to be better, I work hard and want to finish college. I don't yell at my mother I tape her, to show what is going on to protect myself, not that it will do any good. I want to move out but I know what is practical on all sides. Like it really would be nice to be able to finish college , although I know the abuse here is too bad to ride it out. But if you do take people with problems and torture them the liklihood of them becoming a danger to society is much higher. I have had a few side effects myself, and I, as the person who is stuck in my head all the time, am pretty sane. Do they have a disorder where you put up with to much, I'm sure, your crazy if you do and crazy if you don't. I think it is all just social control and money. I hope the PV mafia doesn't come after me. I'm joking of course.
