At the time that England got into the empire business, many people believed that countries were rich or poor according to how much gold or silver bullion they had. One way to acquire it was to be lucky and find new lands inhabited by Indians who knew where mines were and who could be persuaded, by force if necessary...
Category - No 3
The Army Mathematics Research Center: Our attack on this military research center continues. The center recently attacked our book The AMRC Papers
Frank, an attractive but rather thin sixth-grader, sits quietly in an examination room of the Learning Disabilities Clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. A clinic doctor checks Frank's cumulative record from the urban school he attends. Then he checks the boy's eye movements. Frank has...
While the techniques and terminology of behavior modification present a flashy mix of space age technology and verbiage, the basic ideas have been prevalent in America for many years. And the overriding contradiction of behavior modification, between the social cause of "antisocial" behavior and the correction of...
There is presently for prisoners throughout the U.S., both state and federal, a new kind of warfare and dehumanization. For prisoners it is a present terror, for those on the outside it is a threat.
A multi-million dollar proposal for a "Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence" (CSRV) at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) has been designed to focus on the "pathologically violent individual" and, in the words of its main proponent, is aimed at "altering undesirable behavior." In this time of...
This paper has been an attempt to clarify some of the contradictions of the techniques now in use to modify and control behavior. Coupled with the brutality and the totalitarian nature of these methods is the destruction that they cause to the individual.
It all started at a January meeting, when one of our members came up with a rather bizarre suggestion. "Since the magazine coordinating committee was thinking about moving the magazine collective to chapters outside of Boston, why couldn't we do an issue?" "What?" we gasped. "I said, why don't we do the magazine?"...