{"id":2331,"date":"2021-07-22T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:09:05","slug":"mind-control-through-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/2021\/07\/22\/mind-control-through-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Control Through Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

DID YOU KNOW?<\/p>\n

IN 1963 TOP EDUCATORS ADMITTED THAT COMPUTERS CAN CHANGE VALUES<\/strong><\/p>\n

From my book “the deliberate dumbing down of america”:<\/p>\n

THE ROLE OF THE COMPUTER IN FUTURE INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS WAS PUBLISHED AS THE March\/
\nApril, 1963 supplement of Audiovisual Communication Review (Monograph 2 of the Technological
\nDevelopment Project of the National Education Association [Contract #SAE9073], U.S.
\nOffice of Education, Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare: Washington, D.C., 1963). James
\nD. Finn of Los Angeles was the principal investigator and Donald P. Ely was the consulting
\ninvestigator for this project. (Donald Ely also became project director for the U.S. Department of
\nEducation\u2019s Project BEST: Basic Educational Skills through Technology, which will be discussed
\nin a later entry in this book.) Excerpts from a chapter entitled \u201cEffortless Learning, Attitude
\nChanging, and Training in Decision-Making\u201d follow:<\/p>\n

Another area of potential development in computer applications is the attitude changing machine. Dr. Bertram Raven in the Psychology Department at the University of California
\nat Los Angeles is in the process of building a computer-based device for changing attitudes.
\nThis device will work on the principle that students\u2019 attitudes can be changed effectively
\nby using the Socratic method of asking an appropriate series of leading questions designed
\nto right the balance between appropriate attitudes, and those deemed less acceptable. For
\ninstance, after first determining a student\u2019s constellation of attitudes through appropriate
\ntesting procedures, the machine would calculate which attitudes are \u201cout of phase\u201d and
\nwhich of these are amenable to change. If the student were opposed to foreign trade, say,
\nand a favorable disposition were sought for, the machine would select an appropriate series
\nof statements and questions organized to right the imbalance in the student\u2019s attitudes. The
\nmachine, for instance, would have detected that the student liked President Kennedy and
\nwas against the spread of Communism; therefore, the student would be shown that JFK
\nfavored foreign trade and that foreign trade to underdeveloped countries helped to arrest the
\nCommunist infiltration of these governments. If the student\u2019s attitudes toward Kennedy and
\nagainst Communism were sufficiently strong, Dr. Raven would hypothesize that a positive
\nchange in attitude toward foreign trade would be effectively brought about by showing the
\nstudent the inconsistency of his views. There is considerable evidence that such techniques
\ndo effectively change attitudes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Admittedly, training in decision-making skills is a legitimate goal of education in this age of automation, but the problem remains\u2014does the educator know what values to attach
\nto the different outcomes of these decisions?… What about students whose values are out of
\nline with the acceptable values of democratic society? Should they be taught to conform to
\nsomeone else\u2019s accepted judgment of proper values? Training in decision-making is ultimately
\ncompounded with training in value judgment and, as such, becomes a controversial subject
\nthat needs to be resolved by educators before the tools can be put to use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DID YOU KNOW? IN 1963 TOP EDUCATORS ADMITTED THAT COMPUTERS CAN CHANGE VALUES From my book “the deliberate dumbing down of america”: THE ROLE OF THE COMPUTER IN FUTURE INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS WAS PUBLISHED AS THE March\/ April, 1963 supplement of Audiovisual Communication Review (Monograph 2 of the Technological Development Project of the National Education Association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliberatedumbingdown.com\/ddd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}