Brainwashing people is wrong w/ @johnsweeneyroar

When:
December 2, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2014-12-02T18:00:00+00:00
2014-12-02T19:00:00+00:00
Where:
Room LG01, New Academic Building
Goldsmiths University of London
Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Professor Chris French
020 7919 7882

John Sweeney states the bleeding obvious in a hilarious and thought-provoking talk on the dangers of brainwashing. Totalitarian thought reform works in places like C21st North Korea, Mao’s China and inside cults because information is restricted. The antidote to that is mockery and tolerance of humour.

NB: No laughing is allowed.

John Sweeney is a journalist and author. He has worked for The Observer newspaper, the BBC’s Newsnight and as an investigative journalist for the BBC’s Panorama series until being made redundant after imitating an exploding tomato with the Church of Scientology. Here’s Sweeney discussing the finer points of Scientology cosmology with a leading Church practitioner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxqR5NPhtLI