Referred to as “hypnopedia,” Huxley addresses the problem of brainwashing, a problem that in today’s world is not in the lure of soma and Obstacle Golf, but in the government, religion, and media that controls the masses.
Brainwashing is defined as the action of “making someone adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure”. The term "brainwashing" was coined by Edward Hunter—a CIA operative also working as a journalist. Hunter exposed that the Chinese government was using drugs, hypnosis, classical conditioning, and repeated terrorist and anti-American philosophical propaganda as system of mind control to turn enemy citizens that they had captured into supporters of their government. Backing up the definition
Brainwashing is defined as the action of “making someone adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forcible pressure”. The term "brainwashing" was coined by Edward Hunter—a CIA operative also working as a journalist. Hunter exposed that the Chinese government was using drugs, hypnosis, classical conditioning, and repeated terrorist and anti-American philosophical propaganda as system of mind control to turn enemy citizens that they had captured into supporters of their government. Backing up the definition