Seligman's Brainwashing Is Not Just for Captive KIPPsters Anymore
Jason Leopold has a great piece up at Truthout on the former CIA torture advisor and KIPP compliance guru, Martin Seligman, aka "Dr. Happy."
Seems that Seligman has leveraged his research on brainwashing poor schoolchildren into full-time happy scholars into a $30+ million dollar no-bid contract to pass the happiness bug to GIs who are coming back after multiple tours of duty with PTSD and worse.
Hey, if it can work in Philly to make children love their poverty and their abusive schooling, why can't it work in Kabul to make GIs unaffected by putting their comrades' pieces into bodybags? According to Seligman, "we're after creating an indomitable Army."
Now when GIs are done with being indomitable in the theaters of war, they can roll all that positivity into the