RE: A Danger of Apparent Complicity? (was Tranquility Bay)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 00:17:34 MDT

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    Randall writes

    > On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Lee Corbin wrote:
    > > But he has one worry. He was reading the "Tranquility Bay"
    > > thread (okay, I'm making some of this up) on the Extropians
    > > mail list, and was mightily impressed by Randall's point
    > > concerning that if you submit to authority for any period
    > > of time, you can indeed lose your will to resist. You
    > > become brainwashed. You find that pretending to "go
    > > along" metamorphoses into the reality.
    >
    > It isn't the pretending to which I was objecting. The
    > thought experiment you present doesn't have the features
    > which, in my opinion, constitute "brainwashing" in the
    > sense that Tranquility Bay performs it.

    I would like to know what features you have in mind. The
    age of the subject? Or ambient conditions? Or what?

    > > The question is, how accurate is his worry that by "playing
    > > along" with the system for two more years, he will compromise
    > > his own resistance?
    >
    > Not very accurate, in my opinion.

    Thanks for the opinion.

    Lee

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