The Instability of TruthBecause brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don't recognise it while it's happeningunless we know where to look. As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability of Truth, "Brainwashing erases itself." What we call brainwashing is more common than we think; it is not so much what happens to other people as what can happen to anyone. The Instability of Truth exposes the myriad ways our minds can be controlled