Doctor Benway

"Benway is a manipulator and coordinator of symbol systems, an expert
on all phases of interrogation, brainwashing and control . . . 'I
deplore brutality,' he said. 'It's not efficient. On the other
hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise,
when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt. A
few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The
subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack
of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to
feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is
something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of
the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and
intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy
direct.'"
-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959

<altreel.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote:

> The
> subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack
> of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to
> feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is
> something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of
> the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and
> intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy
> direct.'"
> -William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959

Kafka, Orwell and Burroughs all understood. But then they all had
examples to work from.
--
Peter