Beyond Common Sense - LaRouche

deep emotional response had to be elicited, if the next stage wasto be reached.Technique Three is, as Lifton describes it, The DemandFor Purity.Lifton claims this to be the most malignant element of thoughtcontrol,“...for by defining and manipulating the criteria of purity,and by conducting an all-out war on impurity, the ideologicaltotalist creates a narrow world of guilt and shame. This isperpetuated by an ethos of continuous reform, a demandthat one strive permanently and painfully for something whichnot only does not exist but is in fact alien to the humancondition. “ (45)A “guilty milieu” and a “shaming milieu” are created...... guilt and shame are all basic to human nature,but it is a matter of degree ... Each person is madevulnerable through his profound inner sensitivities to hislimitations and to his unfulfilled potential,. in other words eachis made vulnerable through his existential guilt...“Some ideological totalists become the ultimatejudges of good and evil within their own world, theyare able to use these universal tendencies towards guiltand shame as emotional levers for their controlling andmanipulative influences. “ (46)Lifton points out that the “odious influence” is locatedoutside” of the individual and it can, therefore, be chased anddenounced. By scourging that problem and expelling it fromthe person’s life, then remoulding can take place.In the CEC it is The Witch Mother or her surrogate and partnerin historic crime The Witch Wife, who is blamed and hunteddown for exorcism. Like a medieval demon possession