Koren, R. V. Mind Control and Socio-Scientific Passions

Abstract: The article is devoted to the three sources of mind control: Antonio Gramsci’s teaching about cultural hegemony, psychological doctrine and cultural socio-dynamics and the three basic channels of mind control: mass media, mass (popular) culture and science. The author provides their brief description and underlines the important role of psychoanalysis in the process of mind control and manipulation. The author also focuses on science as a tool of mind control. The author shows that sociology and social philosophy that teach sociocentrism but haven’t clarified the field of social research turn to falsification and mind control. Sociology have become the slave of the ideologized System, developed particular research methods that easily yield to falsification and replaced the problem of human survival with the question about the human survival in the System. Therefore it is quite right to raise a question about social responsibility of a philosopher. The author views social ideology, the relation between social ideology and social issues as well as ethnic delusions in sociology and social philosophy. The author conducts the system analysis of the list of scientific specialties “22.00.00 — Social Sciences”. The list very well shows that social studies are closely associated with mind control which creates the problems and social tension and disturbs natural development of the society. The author shows the need in cultural improvement of social studies and describes a principled approach to this process. Based on that the author makes suggestions on what amendments should be made to the list of specialties “22.00.00 — Ethno-Social Studies’ which would contain 8 new disciplines. The author also provides conceptual grounds for these suggestions.

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