Woa. Thanks for that David Noebel audio, Jeff.
"Author of the bestseller
'Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles"'
...from 1965 and then expanded to become one of my prized culture war books from the sixties,
'Rythm, Riots, and Revolution.'
Noebel was in the camp of Dr. Billy James Hargis and was his Dean of
the Christian Crusade Anti-Communist Youth University.
In 'R,R, and R' he explains Pavlovian conditioning, hypnosis, and includes lots of fascist House Committee on Un-American Activities yearly reports.
Who knew Pete Seegar was the anti-Christ?
Ironically, the Beatles and Frank Zappa's rock spirit infiltrated the Iron Curtain and infected youth with a taste for Western culture which helped break the weak hold of Communist doctrine. So Hargis and Noebel were partly right. That music does something to some people.
from 'Rythm, Riots, and Revolution' -
"The music is loud, primitive, insistent, strongly rythmic, and releases in a disguised way (can it be called sublimation?) the all too tenuously controlled, newly acquired physical impulses of the teenager.
Mix this up with the phenomena of mass hypnosis, contagious hysteria, and the blissful feeling of being mixed up in an all-embracing, orgiastic experience, and every kid can become 'Lord of the Flies' or the Beatles."
