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Woof-a-Doof:
For what ever reason, yesterday I had a memory of sitting in group in both the Milton Roy building and the Morgan Yacht building. My quess is that it happened in other buildings also.

I remember the entire group screaming/shouting "STRAIGHT IS GREAT, STRAIGHT IS GREAT, STRAIGHT IS GREAT". This happened at least once a day, and sometimes I remember it going on for what seemed like 10-15 minutes. We screamed it at the top of our lungs.

Of course there were some of us that inserted the words "STRAIGHT SUCKS" whilst bellowing out the sickening mantra.

After the memory i thought about it and I recall reading a book on meditation and the use of mantras. The author discouraged the use of mantras (many eastern sects use mantras exclusely...usually the mantra is privatly and individually given to an individual and it is thier own, not to be shared)this guys idea was that the mantra, rather than encouraging an expansion of understanding did just the opposite of it's intent. The repititious chanting closed off the free flowing thought, which the author of the book said brought no one closer to understanding or enlightenment.

Also, I thought about the surrounding buildings, buisnesses (sp)and the people they employed...Didn't they hear us? What did they think? Wasn't anyone curious about all the noise generated by the same kids who were lead into the building by thier belt loops?

The only time I recall being slightly amused by this group chant was when a Staff Member (Marnie Sykes, if I rember correctly)went down the rows of people and each of us had to scream a vowel. One person , one vowel. Then we all yelled that one vowel. The resulting sound was like that of a jungle....wierd. It only happened the one time that I can remember.

As my "anniversary" date nears (as it has many times before) I start giving more and more thought to that intake day and my time incarcerated. Lil things like this chanting thing just seem to consume my thoughts. And it's not like I can really discuss it with anyone, even those near and dear to me...why? Because they can't envision it, they can't begin to imagine it, others simple don't care to hear it.

Did this chanting thing happen in other buildings at other locations? Does anyone remember being sickened by it, I mean knowing that the words being screamed did not reflect the truth...Straight was not Great....Straight Sucked....Were we suppossed to actually believe the chant? Was the purpose of this scream/chant to get us motavated.....ugh...sickening

dragonfly:

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--- Quote ---On 2006-01-06 04:54:00, dragonfly wrote:

"Straight WAS like a monastery in a lot of ways.

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Since the tactics came from the Chinese originally, this should not be surprising.



The intent of the Chinese monasteries was to provide a SAFE place for monks to let go of their delusions of self.

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And to provide HEALTHY impetus to let go of those delusions. Those impetus work, and monks go happily about the day doing monkish things, for the purpose of monk hood.

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The Chinese Communists saw the power in this and developed it's flip side, brainwashing.



And then of course, the CIA saw the power in this and our tax dollars funded the development of a powerful machine capable of changing the minds of teenage pot smokers.    



Every aspect of straight has a counterpart that can be found in a Buddhist monastery. Behavioral counterparts of course, not ideological.



The chanting you describe is just one example of the monastic roots of straight. [ This Message was edited by: dragonfly on 2006-01-06 05:09 ]"

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letting go of delusions of self sounds more ideological rather than behavioral. :cry: half of all indian children in those schools died.


i reckon the koreans didn't invent brainwashing either. it seems to be common knowledge among the colonizers of the world.

in my experience, gaining a sense of self as a teenager was part of finding my own way in the world instead of accepting unquestioned indoctrination into the values and the system i saw and was troubled by. my "druggie image" was a symbolic representation in the world, part of my voice that was questioning many things that were taken for granted in this society. by denying me my own voice, literally and symbolically, straight denied me my philosophies and the outer creative expression of my visions and questions as a youth. isn't that the light of the world? the way of the artist and visionary? to interact with the world from the center of your being? i mean, that's integrity, as i see it. the root of power is acting with integrity.

so what would you say to the native americans, that somehow that forced reeducation was based on worthy values or ideologies of monasticism? that it had anything valuable to teach them? let's not get too abstract. the colonizers knew that in order to subjugate them they had to kill the indian. nothing was gained, everything was lost.

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"America kills art."
-Daniel Higgs

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