--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > Singer was at least as bad, FWIW. But Markovsky was very > happy to have been appointed editor of her anticult > journal, until that whole project fell through. > You should know that Markovsky required editorial independence from the Singer Foundation and indicated that he intended to hold the journal to <I>his</I> understanding of scholarly and scientific rigor.
> <snip> > If you're going to use the model of "brainwashing" > as a "metaphor" or "poetic device," you better be > damn sure you make that really clear at the outset. > > Of course, "brainwashing" is a metaphor to begin > with, but most people understand the term as it > was originally used and think of prisoners of war > and the "Manchurian Candidate." > > And I rather doubt Gina was using Lifton's criteria > as nothing more than metaphors. Curtis certainly > doesn't. > I may have misled you. I didn't mean to say that Gina understands "thought reform" as a metaphor. You would have to ask her how she understands "thought reform." You may want to post a comment on the blog. What I meant to offer was my reaction to her article. Lifton also didn't talk about "thought reform" as a metaphor. That was only my personal reaction to the concept of thought reform or brainwashing. J.
