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Klein The Shock Doctrine

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In the last five pages of “The Shock Doctrine”, Klein (2007) explores the connection between the destruction of minds in pursuance of perfection and the destruction of Iraq in order to create an ideal country. Klein begins by focusing on several American prisons in which electroshock therapy and intense sensory deprivation is administered to prisoners regularly. “For many prisoners, the effects of these techniques have been: […] total regression” expressed as a “permanently delusional“ state (Klein pg. .51). The purpose of this regression, as Klein (2007) previously explains at the end of the chapter, is to erase all traces of the people these prisoners once were and to use that as a means of remaking them into model citizens. An idea perpetuated
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