I saw it in Nam. Conditioning. He thinks he's me. They all think they're me.
— Frank Castle, The Punisher: Circle of Blood
Kraj rose and started around the desk.
"Now it is time for your indoctrination to begin."
I cannot express the fear that overwhelmed and possessed me when I heard those words.
"Now it is time for your indoctrination to begin."
I cannot express the fear that overwhelmed and possessed me when I heard those words.
"My sole purpose in life is to bring pleasure to my companions!"
— Gila, Our Man Flint
Stop all of your thinking
And start listening to me
Trust me, you'll be set free
With that, we'll think creatively
The TV is truly God
Don't question me, it's not odd!
Quit complaining, listen to your heart
It was wrong from the start
And start listening to me
Trust me, you'll be set free
With that, we'll think creatively
The TV is truly God
Don't question me, it's not odd!
Quit complaining, listen to your heart
It was wrong from the start
— Creep-P (Eyeris), "Creative"
"You were captured. So were most of our followers. They could have killed you. But that would have given the Cause a martyr. So instead they put you into intensive therapy. They erased areas of your mind, they implanted new ideas. They literally took your mind to pieces and rebuilt it. And when they'd finished, they put you up and you confessed. You said you'd been "misguided." You appealed to everyone to support the Administration, hound up the traitors. Oh, they, they did a good job on you. You were very convincing. And then they took you back and erased even that."
— Blake's 7, "The Way Back"
I thought I knew what you wanted done. A former lover, a political rival, an inconvenience on the way up; the client has the clout to make someone disappear for a day and return as though nothing as changed, except it has. A habit of reverse-alphabetizing personal correspondence, a preference for Kir Jaengmi's poetry over An Puna's, a subversive fascination with foreign politics, excised or altered by my work. Sometimes only a favorite catchphrase or a preference for ginseng over green tea is changed, and the reprogramming serves as a warning once the patient encounters dissonance from family and acquaintances. Sometimes the person who returns is no longer recognizable. The setup can take months, depending on the compatibility of available data with preset models, but the reprogramming itself only takes hours.
— Between Two Dragons, by Yoon Ha Lee
"That sucking sound is your free will being plunged from the toilet of your mind!"
— Dimentio, Super Paper Mario
Communist guerilla leader: Tom Tuttle from Tacoma. You will be brainwashed!
Tuttle: Me? America's son? Hah! That will be a challenge!
Communist guerilla leader: (pats his cheek) You bet.
Gilligan Cut to Tuttle in guerilla uniform.
Tuttle: Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism!
