23/07/2024
Changing your Social identity!
4 of 6 uses of a Thought-Reform Program!
By Margret Singer
4. Manipulate a system of rewards, punishments, and experiences in such a way as to inhibit behavior that reflects the individual's former social identity!
The expression or your beliefs, values, activities and characteristic demeanor prior to attending the college or church is suppressed, and you are manipulated into taking on a social identity preferred by leadership!
Old beliefs and old patterns of behavior are defined as irrelevant , if not evil. You quickly learn that leadership wants old ideas and old patterns eliminated, so you suppress them.
(Thomas a. Wheeler speaking) Example would be, to express feelings for someone you would like to date, would be met with overt disapproval of peers and superiors, accompanied by directives of harsh discipline. An individual can avoid public rebuke on this topic by no longer speaking on the entire topic of interest in another human being!