In an attempt to find sources for ideas described in the sequences, the concept of “curiousity stopper” seems to emerge from this source, or similar: Lipton, Robert. “Thought reform and the psychology of totalism: A study of “brainwashing” in China.” (1961).
From Chapter 22:
“The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.”
(Also: “The totalist milieu maintains an aura of sacredness around its basic dogma, holding it out as an ultimate moral vision for the ordering of human existence. This sacredness is evident in the prohibition (whether or not explicit) against the questioning of basic assumptions, and in the reverence which is demanded for the originators of the Word”)
In an attempt to find sources for ideas described in the sequences, the concept of “curiousity stopper” seems to emerge from this source, or similar: Lipton, Robert. “Thought reform and the psychology of totalism: A study of “brainwashing” in China.” (1961).
From Chapter 22:
“The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.”
(Also: “The totalist milieu maintains an aura of sacredness around its basic dogma, holding it out as an ultimate moral vision for the ordering of human existence. This sacredness is evident in the prohibition (whether or not explicit) against the questioning of basic assumptions, and in the reverence which is demanded for the originators of the Word”)