ARE YOU A SELF-CONSCIOUS HUMAN BEING OR A PROGRAMMED SLAVE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300590042-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: January 21, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

Al PV-YOU A SELF-CONSCIOUS HUMAN BEING
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Ort. December 29, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (the
NCLC) uncovered a vicious CIA scheme against it, a scheme which wasp
to use victims of brainwashing as the enactors of assassination. As
the depression worsens, the CIA has other plans, including brainwashing of
the general population- -brainwashing of you--using the behavior modifica-
tion techniques developed right on this campus. Preposterous you say--
they can't brainwash me I Preposterous ... but wait ... think back to
all those "experiments" you participated in, the "meaninglesss" question-
naires, the personality profiles you filled out ... they know you, your
loves and hates, your needs; your fears. And the techniques developed
on this campus use just that knowledge of you to change your behavior.
Behavioral modification to prevent you from making self-conscious, rational,
human decisions, and to have you making irrational, compulsive,. bestial
choices instead--impotent programmed choices which render a population
docile, Zombie-like slaves.
Nah, not me ! --ThirAlt-. again--think of how you've been reacting to
the phony fuel crisis, what you've been "thinking" about that.. "Those
dirty Arabs (or Jews), that S. O. B. Nixon, those greedy oil. companies--
or those lousy people who won't turn down their heat, or won't take cold
showers or won't drive O MPH. " All those "thoughts" have one thing in
common--your impotence. The all Indentify the problem away from you
and they all say "I will degrade myself and acknowledge my impotence
a little more today." Your "thoughts" are "decisions" to remain impo-
tent--decisions programmed by capitalist ideology. As the depression
worsens, and the choices become tougher to take, the devices which play
upon your fears, which reduce you to docility, will become more vicious--
until the final program is enacted--the one which calls for you to walk
into the ovens.
There are self-conscious decisions which can and must be Lade
today-the decisions which can ensure that the human race is not doomed
to extinction, the decisions which will provide enough food, fuel, and
housing for the world's population. These decisions require self.-conscious-
ness--the use of your intelligence in the framework of 'the necessity of
human survival. Through the understaeding of what's needed now, and
your role in that realization and fulfillment, you begin to become a self-
conscious person--someone who is impervious to brainwashing, someone
who can realize him or herself as a human being.
The NCLC has begun the self-conscious formulation of the programs
necessary to feed, house and clothe the world. It is necessary that you
begin to partake in the development and enactment of these programs.
Tonight we will be discussing the formulation of the world food program:
will you be a self-conscious contributor to the world historical process? !
FORUM TONIGHT
(Monday, January 21, 1974)
7:30 PM
U.W. Memorial Union
(See "Today in the Union, " under "Madison Labor Committee")
SELF;CONS CIOUSNESS,_STARVATION AND YOU
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