The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.


Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "brainwashing" in China (ed. UNC Press Books, 1989) - ISBN: 9780807842539

Robert Jay Lifton Quotes

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are ...

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are ...

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are ...

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are ...