See milieu control on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1994, Kevin Fauteux, The Recovery of Self: Regression and Redemption in Religious Experience, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 26:",
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"ref": "2000, Paul Kevin Wapner, Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Richard A. Falk, Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 233:",
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"ref": "2006, Frank Kemp Salter, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 199:",
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"text": "The totalist administrators 'look upon milieu control as a just and necessary policy, one which need not be kept secret.' The assumption of 'omniscience' and 'ultimate truth' leads these administrators to consider it 'their duty to create an environment containing no more and no less than this 'truth.",
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"ref": "2013, Jeffrey Kaplan, Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future, Routledge, →ISBN, page 213:",
"text": "In applying Erikson's totalism concept to the Thought Reform experiences of his subjects, Lifton famously identified eight 'themes' of the totalistic milieu: Milieu Control, i.e., monopoly of the spatial and informational environment.",
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