Buck Sexton

And so I started to go back into history and look at the earliest really mass mind control efforts in the Soviet Union and then in Maoist, which really spread in a sense.

And then in Maoist China, they called it thought reform.

Brainwashing is an American term.

It's a neologism off of the Mandarin for wash brain.

We change it to brainwash, Edward Hunter brainwash.

who people say maybe had some connections to government.

Not really clear, I think.

Depends who you ask.

You can look it up on Wikipedia one way or the other.

But back in the 50s, he came up with this term.

He was a journalist.

He wrote about it actually in the Miami, I think it was the Miami Herald.

And it referred to people who had gone through this indoctrination, intense indoctrination program

in early Maoist China, where even when they got out, and these were Westerners, Mike, they got out, they had essentially an extreme form of Stockholm syndrome.

It lingered.

And they would defend, even after horrible treatment, they would defend what they were trying to do.

And they would argue that maybe they had done something to cause this.

And then over time, they realized that they had just been

through this very regimented form of intense mind control.

And so there have been different periods in history where this has happened and there are tactics that go into this.