Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
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spots:
It is interesting to read an unfavorable response from a person admiring WWASPS. Somehow, in the 5 pages of what I consider to be "WOW...read this stuff!!!!" information, this person has twice made references to the inconsistencies and therefore-proveable inaccuracies in the New York Times article because he mid-identified (or wrongly located) a certain Rose Mary Hinsch, purportedly a school teacher in Phoenix. Perhaps Ms. Hinsch lives in Seattle or Minneapolis. Certainly one could juxtapose this error and therefore conclude that the whole witnessed/documented/verified article with quotes from extremely involved parents, government officials, and even WWASPS functionaries is to be discarded.
Joe Normal only needs to remember the behavior modification school in ...somewhere...maybe, Montana or Utah or somewhere...that was just like the ones in Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica that he's been reading about this summer. Joe Normal asks, "By the way, didn't Pete Whats-His-Name down in Accounting talk about sending his kid to one of those places? Wonder if he knows what's really happening?
Anonymous:
"But the seminars persuaded Michele Ziperovich to pull her son Alex out. "It was 300 adults screaming and beating on chairs, three days of no sleep, and after that, you'll buy into whatever they say," Ms. Ziperovich said. "They berate you, they scream at you, exhaust you. It's basically mind control."
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So Ms. Lawyer went to all three days/nights of the seminar, never slept and was yelled at and berated? I looked on the Resource realizations site and they do have time to sleep, at least 8 hours? It looks like your run of the mill personal growth seminar to me.
Yep, sue-happy, I agree.
Anonymous:
Run of the mill personal growth seminars use sleep deprivation etc... and have been linked with lasting psychological damage.
Anonymous:
You may be accustomed to "working" from 8:00Am to midnight (and thus getting 8 hours sleep time) but most people will will experience it as fatiguing, particularly under the stress inducing conditions of the seminar.
Moreover, please consider that the parent seminar -- while obviously intended to be a form of brainwashing -- is also intended to be a milder, water-down form of brainwashing.
Obviously, if the parent seminars were conducted under the conditions which prevail in the WWASP institutions (eg., if they forced the parents to sleep in a common dorm with the lights on, and twisted their arms behind their back for side talking, or if they weren't in their seats by the time the music stops, they'd be forced to listen to motivational tapes, etc.), they might get wind of the true nature of what their kids were going thru. That would defeat the real purpose of the seminar -- which is to subject the parents to a 3 day informercial.
anon:
[ This Message was edited by: KarenZ on 2003-10-18 13:18 ]
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