TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - How Orwell's 1984 Has Influenced Rev. Jim Jones to Dominate and Then Destroy His Followers: With Extensions to Current Political Leaders JO - Peace and conflict: journal of peace psychology A1 - Zimbardo, P.G. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - This article introduces some of the ways in which current political leaders use mind control techniques to manipulate their followers' beliefs and actions. To more fully appreciate how they do so, we will rely on an in-depth analysis of how Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones did so earlier by putting into daily practice the strategies and tactics featured in Orwell's novel 1984. Eight of Jones's extractions from Orwell's litany of state control tactics will be detailed, followed by revelations of how he put them into diabolical daily practice to totally dominate his thousand loyal followers- eventuating in their mass suicide/murder 40 years ago in Jonestown, Guyana. © 2019 American Psychological Association.
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LA - en SN - 1078-1919 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pac0000428 ID - ref1 ER -