Changing Minds: Mental Fortresses and the 6 Rs (Part 4 of 6)

By Willie Baptist, Charon Hribar, and John Wessel-McCoy This is part 4 of a six-part series published by The Journal of the University of the Poor. Read Part 3. The mind is a politically contested terrain. It is the main theatre or battlefield of every form of social conflict, military and non-military. At the same time, it is the most powerful weapon out of which all other weapons or means of struggle are formed and wielded. In this conflict and with this weapon, knowing your enemy and knowing yourself so as to outfight by outsmarting the enemy means as Sun Tzu