Malcolm in the Middle – The Minty Mint Song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDVr_cKlZA
They're cool they're fresh.
They'll clean your breath.
Minty mints are your breath's friend.
They'll clean your breath.
Minty mints are your breath's friend.
http://malcolminthemiddle.wikia.com/wiki/The_Minty_Mint_Song
https://web.archive.org/web/20180706195252/http://malcolminthemiddle.wikia.com/wiki/The_Minty_Mint_Song
Malcolm gets a crush on a girl, Alison, but has problems because he thinks too much. He enlists the help of Reese who shows him how to shut his brain off, but it has bad consequences.
http://malcolminthemiddle.wikia.com/wiki/Stupid_Girl
https://web.archive.org/web/20180706195613/http://malcolminthemiddle.wikia.com/wiki/Stupid_Girl
This is an example of a thought terminating cliche and it maybe useful in the short run to perform more comfortably by blocking unwanted thoughts but in the long run blocking your conscious and critical thinking capacity, while ignoring or even shutting off warnings of possible danger is bad for you as you will see if you watch the whole the episode.
When statists say, "who will build the roads" that is another example of a thought terminating cliche. It helps them avoid feeling bad now by avoiding thinking about the consequences of their decisions by imagining the government will fix everything and they do not need to take personal responsibility.
The full episode is currently available at daily motion at the link below, along with information about a transcendental meditation cult that uses or misuses mantras as thought terminating cliches and similar concepts from the book 1984 and elsewhere. This topic of thought stopping through repeating a phrase is written quite extensively about in the book
When statists say, "who will build the roads" that is another example of a thought terminating cliche. It helps them avoid feeling bad now by avoiding thinking about the consequences of their decisions by imagining the government will fix everything and they do not need to take personal responsibility.
The full episode is currently available at daily motion at the link below, along with information about a transcendental meditation cult that uses or misuses mantras as thought terminating cliches and similar concepts from the book 1984 and elsewhere. This topic of thought stopping through repeating a phrase is written quite extensively about in the book
"Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapping:_America's_Epidemic_of_Sudden_Personality_Change
although I do not endorse reading it unless you want to read a lot of the older books about cult psychology just to be thorough because some of the newer books synthesized a lot of the old information from multiple books in a smaller number of pages than reading all the old resources they referenced combined. Also I would not trust anything this book says about holograms I think they were trying to be cutting edge but from the future looking back I am skeptical.
written by Carl Janssen 2018 July 6
written by Carl Janssen 2018 July 6
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i9nce
Malcolm İn The Middle S04E04 Stupid Girl
Information on transcendental meditation cult
http://old.freedomofmind.com/Info/infoDet.php?id=234
Thought-terminating cliché
Thought-terminating clichés, also known as thought-stoppers,[16] fnords, or fighting words, are words or phrases that discourage critical thought and meaningful discussion about a given topic.[17] They are typically short, generic truisms that offer seemingly simple answers to complex questions or that distract attention away from other lines of thought.[17] They are often sayings that have been embedded in a culture's folk wisdom and are tempting[according to whom?] to say because they sound true or good or like the right thing to say.[16] Some examples are: "Stop thinking so much",[18] "here we go again",[19]and "what effect do my actions have?"[16]
The term was popularized by psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in his 1961 book, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China.[17] Lifton wrote, "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".[20] Sometimes they are used in a deliberate attempt to shut down debate, manipulate others to think a certain way, or dismiss dissent. However, some people repeat them, even to themselves, out of habit or conditioning, or as a defense mechanism to reaffirm a confirmation bias.[16][21]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliché#Thought-terminating_cliché
A "mantra" (/ˈmæntrə,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra
A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a clan, political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose, with the goal of persuading members of the public or a more defined target group.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan
Crimestop
"Crimestop" means to rid oneself of unwanted thoughts immediately, i.e., thoughts that interfere or disagree with the ideology of the Party. This way, a person avoids committing thoughtcrime.
In the novel, we hear about crimestop through the eyes of protagonist Winston Smith:
Orwell also describes crimestop from the perspective of Emmanuel Goldstein in the book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime#Crimestop
Duckspeak
Duckspeak is a Newspeak term that means "to quack like a duck" (literal meaning) or "to speak without thinking". Duckspeak can be good or "ungood" (bad) depending on who is speaking, and whether what they are saying aligns with Big Brother's ideals. To speak rubbish and lies may be "ungood", but to do so for the benefit of The Party may be good. Orwell explains in the appendix: "Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak […]. Like various words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment."
An example of duckspeak in action is provided in chapter 9, when an Inner Party speaker is haranguing the crowd about the crimes of Eurasia when a note is passed into his hand. He never stops speaking or changes his inflection, but (according to the changed Party position) he now condemns the crimes of Eastasia, which is Oceania's new enemy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#Duckspeak
The Leader Is Good, The Leader Is Great!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FxfR3lg6Q
