Human Resources, a documentary about Social Control that revisits the history, philosophy and the power exercised by elite groups.

According to the world view of behavioural scientists, the behaviour of organisms, including human beings, is predictable and therefore controllable.

Directed by Scott Noble, Human Resources is packed with powerful examples and references that no-one, certainly no psychologist, should dare overlook. It is inconceivable that anyone could watch it in its entirety and not be affected by the information presented. Note taking is highly recommended.

• Human Resources -
  
• Director: Scott Noble
• Durarion: 2 hours
• Released: 2010
• Website: Metanoia Films
  
• Free and available for download or viewing online (see below)
  

‘Give me a baby and I can make any kind of man.’ - John B. Watson, the founder of behaviourism.

In 1920, at John Hopkins University, Watson experimented on babies. He would present a candle to infants to see if they were afraid of fire, he would introduce animals to their environment to see if children were afraid of them naturally or only after a traumatic experience. He would make a hissing noise and observe the results. Watson learned that new born babies had no fear of the dark. He also learned that fear could be conditioned and did so with rabbits.

He noticed infants exhibited natural delight when encountering a rabbit for the first time. Watson was able to make make the them experience fear by clanging a metal bar behind them until the association became fixed. The babies were conditioned to cry at the sight of the rabbit, even without the traumatising sounds. Soon anything reminding the baby of the rabbit, its shape or texture, would elicit a fear response.

From his experiments, Watson reached a radical conclusion which would come to define political and social engineering in the 20th century. Watson concluded that the driving force in society was not love but fear.

Building on this and other early work, social engineers explored advanced techniques of mind control which they used not to make people better but for convenience, to make them behave.

"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind." - Dr Jose Delgado - developer of remote brain control systems, Neuroscientist, Yale.

The methods of social control and coercion covered in the documentary include drug, electroshock, surgical implantation, psychological manipulation and more. It is chilling to see that the inspiration for science-fiction and thrilling spy films actually have a solid and in many instances more extreme basis in reality. In fictional films, the villains attack the civilian population whereas the forces of law and order prevent them. In reality Governments, psychologists, psychiatrists and the security and armed forces all play their role in crop-dusting people with bacteria, LSD or radioactive contaminants. If it sounds sensational, see the documentary and check out the solid references.

The film's final dedication is particularly poignant. Scott Noble's aunt, Nancy Noble, was interned at the Allen Memorial Institute (mentioned in the documentary) where she was exposed to CIA sponsored mind control experimentation whilst only a teenager. She never recovered.

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