Please, say it ain't so!
Yes, she was very much a part of the sociology courses!!
Oh, the wasted money and the brainwashing I received from the "school!"
Sigh!!
"Fighting Mind Control"
"The power elite plan for world dictatorship rests on the ability of psycho/social scientists to brainwash the human race into submission. It is believed that a "scientific dictatorship" can be constructed using these techniques on a global scale. The main key to their plans is our ignorance as a people. By their secret estimates, whenever the dumbing-down of America reaches a determined saturation point, resistance to their plans will crumble and Americans will voluntarily lie-down under the marching boots.
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"And here is the problem. The theory that the human mind can be remade into anything the social scientists desire is based on the theory that external forces alone shape the mind. This is based on the book "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead. The book purported to document how adolescents in Samoa transitioned into adulthood without the usual angst and emotionality adolescents everywhere else do. The Samoan culture as described by mead was one of unbounded sexual license, promiscuous without any guilt. Thus, it was claimed, the rules of the culture one lived in was the cause of the stress and unhappiness teenagers show as they grow up. Humans were born with a blank mind, a "Tabla Rasa" on which the outside environment wrote everything that person would eventually become. One could therefore re-engineer humans by re-engineering the culture around them.
The book was hailed as a masterpiece by sociologists, who lionized Mead as a modern intellectual heroine. The book and the theory justified tinkering with every possible aspect of our lives in order to create better people. But while the theory sounds good, the hard reality is that no matter how the culture gets changed, people continue being people. In totally enforced gender-neutral environments, for the most part boys still act like boys and girls still act like girls.
As it turns out, Mead (and the world) was a victim of her own bad science. Mead went to Samoa intending to find proof that culture was the sole determinant of personality. There was a built-in bias to see things certain ways right from the start. Indeed in her early work, Mead had collected data that accurately showed Samoan adolescent life as similar to pretty much everywhere else. But that was not what Mead (and her sponsor Franz Boas) wanted to hear. So Mead took up with two young Samoan women, and started asking suggestive questions. The Samoan women, unaware what Mead would do with the stories, simply told Mead what Mead obviously wanted to hear. Mead, without any further checking, based her entire book on the stories told to her by the two young women.
Mead's book thus contain many errors, some of which are easily checked. Mead assumed that the Samoan culture was sexually promiscuous, based solely on the fact that the Hawaiian culture of the time was. But as anyone who has been to Samoa or knows Samoans can attest, their culture is a rigidly monogamous one.
Mead's supporters continue to defend her and their work, fort to admit that Mead was hoaxed and in turn hoaxed the world is to yank the foundations out from everything that sociology has claimed to accomplish for the last 80 years. Entire careers, even schools, were founded on the theory of cultural determinism, along with much of liberal political thought. To admit that Mead was wrong is to undermine the justification for a large part of the control government exerts over our lives.
And, of course, the fact that Mead's book was a hoax undermines claims that social scientists can brainwash the people into submission." -- Mike Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com"
Sigh!
The book was a HOAX?!?
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!
