Buck Sexton
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But this guy Pavlov, we can build on his scientific knowledge and we can just basically turn people into robots.
Not really that easy, right?
That's one of the good news parts of this, is that every human being, you could say because of our underlying makeup, you could say because of our soul, you can't just flip a switch and get the same outcome.
It's not actually a machine, but there is a process here.
And what they would do in Maoist China, and there was a psychologist, Robert Lifton, who traveled there right at the early phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and he said...
One of the things they would come up with is people would have to, they would force confessions, Glenn.
This also goes to degradation.
Force confessions.
And the people would write things that were crazy.
And the point was they had them go through it over and over and over again.
And they would tell them, your confession is not sincere enough.
So they would know that they're lying.
Everyone knows that they're lying.
They're confessing to crazy crimes, you know, treason that they never could have done.
It'd be like me sitting here writing that I assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
They're like, well, that is not a sincere enough confession.
Try again.
Try again.
This is how they break people down.
Glenn, this is to your point when you don't use the preferred pronouns.