1. Welcome to the E-learning Module titled: “Genocide of the Mind.”
This e-learning module has been created to inform and
educate laypersons and experts alike on the topic of ethnic
cleansing as a form of genocide.
What is hoped you will gain from this is a different and
viable perspective of what ethnic cleansing is and its very
fabric of existence here in the United States.

2. What is Genocide of the Mind?
Genocide of the mind is a societal attempt and intent to
place an individual’s mind, thought processes, emotions,
and intelligence as defective and/or inferior.
Genocide of the mind is implemented in a Totalitarian
Society/Culture who by default, mimics the Totalism found
in China.

3. Let’s begin with some important terminology!
Ethnic cleansing Ethno-history “A Expulsion is “the Culture is “the
Terminology
is “the expulsion, study of the art of expelling.” set of shared
imprisonment, or development of attitudes, values,
killing of an goals,
cultures.”
ethnic minority conventions, or
by a dominant And, what social practices
majority in order constitutes the art that characterizes
What is the
to achieve ethnic of expelling? an institution, a
opposite of
homogeneity.” particular field,
Ethno-history? activity, or
societal
characteristic.”

4. Expel
Expelling is “the act of taking away rights and privileges of a membership
into a society, culture, organization, or group.” The opposite of expelling is
inclusion. Membership is the relationship between an element of a set or class.
Inclusion is a relation between two classes that exists when all members of the first
are also members of the second, for instance race and citizenship.
Scenario #1: Treacherous Diplomacies
In the book titled, “Hidden Codes and Grand Designs,” Pierre
Berloquin quotes: “Code is a rich and ambiguous word. It can be the
key to a cipher in which one purposely hides a meaning that someone else
can read by using the same code. This means it can be a key to being true
to your surroundings or a key to treacherous diplomacies aimed at your
brothers. . . . they cannot be separated.”
Let’s Continue

5. Using the definition of expelling which is: “the act and art of taking away rights and
privileges of a membership into a society, culture, organization, or group,” let’s take a look at
a scenario providing a better picture of this concept.
Scenario #1
Treacherous Diplomacies
One way rights and privileges are taken away within America, is through the
organizational strategy of taking one’s Social Security number, placing a cipher code
within the identifiable number, and marking it through technological means within
the economic industries; this strategy’s intended purpose is to mysteriously, expel
opportunities (systematically, in corporate America and institutionally, within
governmental programs).
Historical Example & Historical Comparative
This new formed coding and marking is done in the same manner Jewish people
were marked during the holocaust, only this time it is through technological means
rather than on the arm.
Let’s look deeper!

6. Thus far we have learned:
1. Expelling is: “the creative act of taking away rights and privileges of a membership into a society,
culture, organization, or group.”
2. One way rights and privileges are taken away within America is: “through the placing of a cipher
code, technologically.”
Let’s analyze further on how this may play out.
Perpetrated Strategy: The Art of Expelling
There is the man behind the computer who codes a particular label in the
form of a cipher and attaches it to an individual’s social security number,
establishing their place in society. This code is only known by the circles
trained to understand its interpretation—loyal to this understanding, these
circles automatically decline , take away, and deprive opportunities, by
secretive measures. Like the “hidden hand” in the economy implied by
Adam Smith during the Industrial Revolution and cloaked in mystery—this
strategy of a cipher code is thoughtfully developed, devised, and executed to
take away one’s freedom.
By loyalty or by training, this code is implemented with no protections
for the individual.
Is it possible?

7. Absolutely, it is possible, individuals and elite’s alike, could develop, devise,
and implement strategically, a cipher code, taking away one’s freedom (if
they haven’t already). Numbers were used back then to implement expulsion and
genocide (as in the holocaust), just as numbers are used to identify us today. Slavery
is a key outcome and consequence, a careless and distinct implication of genocide
and genocide of the mind.
Neil Postman, author of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, states,
“. . . Those who cultivate competence in the use of a new technology become an elite group
that are granted undeserved authority and prestige by those who have no such competence.
Harold Innis, the father of modern Communication Studies, repeatedly spoke of
the ‘knowledge monopolies’ created by important technologies. . . . those who
have control over the workings of a particular technology accumulate power and inevitably
form a kind of conspiracy against those who have no access to the specialized knowledge
made available by the technology.”
What an easy way to create character assassination and
enslavement on an individual or group of people; placing them into
categorical identities of inequality where privilege rules, based on the
code.
Let’s look further!

8. Thus far we have learned:
1. Expelling is: “the creative act of taking away rights and privileges of a membership into a
society, culture, organization, or group.”
2. One way rights and privileges are taken away within America is: “through the placing
of a cipher code, technologically.”
3. By loyalty or by training, this cipher code is implemented with no protections for the
individual.
What are the deeper implications of danger in the above statement, “By
loyalty or by training?”
Deeper Implications of Danger
If we as a society become completely accepting to a system and institution
who trains employees and layperson’s alike on the interpretation of
information within a database and train them to make specified decisions
based on that interpretation, without regard to the cipher’s “other” meaning,
slavery has just succeeded to mass produce in mystery.
What is the outcome?

9. There is another form of weaponry in our American institutions and American culture, the same
intent as the act of genocide, only secretly devised and mysteriously implemented. This weaponry
is at the heart of oppression and separatism; it is still war, not peace!"(c) 2010, M. Gouin
The outcome is:
1. poverty
2. oppression
3. identity assassination
4. inequality
which equivocates to:
a) dictatorship
b) Tyranny--Totalism
and
c) the act of genocide
rather than:
i. diplomacy
ii. freedom
Another Important Point

10. The Internet is lawless! We all know that!
If the internet is lawless, what is at stake in
relationship to human rights and what are the
potential issues of this lawlessness?
This question is not about freedom of speech or civil
liberties rather, protections from slavery, tyranny, and
dictatorship which together, accumulates to terrorism
and attack on individuality.
If the internet, as a database and information
highway is lawless, how does an individual, a group,
and country protect themselves from the lawlessness?
Although, this is another complicated topic
altogether, it is important to understand the issues we
have faced, we face today, and can expect to face in
the future.

11. Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is “the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a
dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity.”
Scenario #2: The Secret Hand of Oppression
In the book titled, “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism,” author
Robert J. Lifton writes about “brainwashing and thought-terminating cliché’s
in China.
Although, I will not delve deeply into this book I want to share excerpts I feel
give substantial evidence to a danger lurking deeply within the belief system
of Psychology, Social Work, and our institutions. I point out a “belief system”
because in our institutions across the United States, the “cultural norm of
belief” is very similar to the thought-terminating processes Totalism
represents, “ethnic homogeneity.”
Let’s look deeper!

12. Using the definition of homogeneity which is: “the quality or state of being homogeneous, (sameness in
belief and thinking), ethnic which is: “of or relating to large groups of people classed according to
commonality and/or beliefs, experiences, or culture,” and imprisonment which is: “constraining and/or
confining a human being from the liberties true freedom provides, let’s take a look at a scenario of ethnic
homogeneity and how it may be applied in a human service situation.
Scenario #2
The Secret Hand of Oppression
The other day, a Social Worker stated to a client (who is suffering from the affects of
poverty and oppression), “You need to change your thinking.” The Social Worker truly
believes the changing of one’s thinking will erase the problem of poverty and disconnection
caused by prejudice and oppression, of which this client lives and reaches out to the
healing community in alleviating. In effect, the client is being forced to submit to the belief
that the reason for his/her circumstances is because of his/her biological defects.
In such a trained and majority cultural belief system, the Social Worker demands by
authority the clients conformity; the result of this demand becomes a coerced client on
defense for their individual diversity and a system betraying its very premise of protecting
humanity. The client has no human right protections for their individuality once this
system incorporates this ideology in radical formulation—”Change your thinking.”
Totalism is thought reform, as Robert Jay Lifton suggests. In the preface of his book
“Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism,” Robert writes, “Totalitarianism is part of
the human repertoire, an ever present potential that can readily manifest itself when historical
conditions call it forth. What is new is the potential for radically increased consequences of
Totalism, to the point of human extinction!”
Let’s look deeper!

13. Thus far we have learned:
1. Ethnic Homogeneity equivocates to a Totalitarian existence produced through the
implementation of thought reform within systems and culture.
2. One way rights and privileges are taken away within America is: “through the belief
that changing the way one thinks will result in a better more productive person and
implementing institutional strategies that enforce this ideology upon it’s clientele.
3. In the case of this social worker, this mental state of belief becomes the terroristic threat,
a fist of authority, and an implementation of ethnic cleansing upon the client population
it services.
What are the deeper implications of a totalitarian state of mind as
practiced by this Social Worker?
The problem of such beliefs (individually and collectively) is:
1. the practice of a culturally accepted intent , “change your
thinking”
2. behavior of ethnic cleansing which diminishes the talent and
potential of human beings.
Is it possible?

14. Robert Jay Lifton goes on to write, “For an individual person the effect of the language of ideological Totalism, (in
this case, the statement, “you need to change your thinking.”), can be summed up in one word: constriction. He
or she is linguistically deprived; and since language is so central to all human experience, his/her capacities for
thinking and feeling are immensely narrowed.” “. . . In effect, an individual is profoundly confined by these
verbal fetters.”
Consequences and Comparative Details
As Robert Jay Lifton points out above, there is an outcome of confinement in
a society, culture, and institution who truly believes homogeneity is a
necessity for the subsistence of a majority culture.
If the individual does not change their thinking, to the conformed belief, they
experience a form of violence that falls under the category of genocide.
So when the Social Worker in her belief system expresses, “You need to change
your thinking” to the client, the suggestion becomes an operational change
advocate of a clients thinking, shaking the clients own power of knowing. The
end result and intent of the Social Worker (due to the loyalty of the
professional belief) is the injuring of the client’s ability to think independently,
threatening the very existence of individuality.
No human being should have to tolerate this type of genocide repeatedly, and
yet most clients do, especially those in the system. This is at the heart of
institutional failure, individual breakdown, and DSMIV diagnosis, in most
systemic cases!

15. Other Totalitarian Beliefs Integrated Within our Culture and Institutions
1. If you feel emotional suffering externally or internally, it is
because you must change your thought processes and/or
accept your “genetic defect.” And the thought processes
are based on the “experts” knowledge rather than, the
individuals knowing.
2. If you are poor, you brought this upon yourself either
because you are mentally inferior, have a disease that
incapacitates you from developing self-sufficiency, or you
are a criminal.
3. If there is conflict in your life, it is because you are creating
that conflict. Again, the cultural norm acts in their belief
if an individual has conflict around them it is because they
are the contributor of that conflict or they are choosing to
be in that conflict.
Society and institutions validate this belief through the interpretation and application
of theory which creates a separation between the individual’s capability and present
ability of personal knowing and a systems doctrine that must always be right till,
scientifically proven wrong.
Final Thoughts

16. One needs to be careful about the way in which they go
about trying to “help” a people or trying to alleviate
suffering, especially when it is based on the supremacy of
one’s educational theory that has become the “fields norm”
of accepted interpretation.
Another words, equivocating the “helping” and aligning
the consensus of those beliefs in order to justify and
validate (or revalidate) the interpreted theory.
Even more, a healer needs to look at how they are
contributing to genocidal conformity by submitting
theoretical gibberish in substantiating why someone
behaves the way they do.
Hopefully, the resilience of a people in poverty does not
succumb to its intent, an inferior status and a victim.
The chains of genocide mutilate a people and this is at the
root of oppression.

17. There is another form of weaponry in our American institutions and American culture, the same
intent as the act of genocide, only secretly devised and mysteriously implemented. This weaponry
is at the heart of oppression and separatism; it is still war, not peace!"(c) 2010, M. Gouin
What is the opposite of Ethno-History?
1. poverty
2. oppression
3. identity assassination
4. inequality
which equivocates to:
a) dictatorship
b) Tyranny--Totalism
and
c) the act of genocide
rather than:
i. diplomacy
ii. freedom

18. Bibliography
1. Morse, John M., Fredrick C. Mish, Madeline L. Novak. Merriam
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. United States of
America: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.
2. Berloquin, Pierre. Hidden Codes and Grand Designs. New
York: Sterling Publishing, 2008.
3. Moore, MariJo, Vine Deloria, Jr. Genocide of the Mind. New
York: Nation Books, 2003.
4. Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of
Totalism. North Carolina: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1989.
The End!
Designed and written by: Madeline A. Gouin
All sources quoted have been placed in the bibliography.
All inquiries about this e-learning module can be addressed
at: gouin_madeline@hotmail.com.