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The biggest obstacle to the rise of leftist authoritarian utopia (a.k.a. socialism, communism, progressivism, liberalism, statism, utopianism, Marxism, etc.) is individualism. We like being unique as individuals, so while people can be herded towards a gray, collective of mindless tyranny, eventually we rebel. That is, unless we don't know if there is anything to rebel for, or you believe you are nothing more than a numb automaton whose only function is to serve the state.
During the worse of the Khmer Rouge regime, all human compassion and decency was lost, and instead was produced selfishness, inequality, and irrationality. To survive, people were forced to cheat, lie, steal, and turn their hearts to stone.
The authority figures also demanded a monopoly on violence, while also encouraging even family members to report to the government the actions of their loved ones. "Men could be executed for striking their wives, denounced by their children for hitting them."
Humanity was denied. “I am not a human being, I am an animal,” can be read at the end of the confession of the former leader and minister Hu Nim. The implication was that a human life quite literally had no more value than that of a beast. People were killed for losing cattle and tortured to death for having struck a cow.
“You have individualist tendencies . . . you must . . . shed these illusions,” Pin Yathay was told by one Khmer Rouge soldier when he attempted to keep his wounded son by his side.
The confiscation of firearms was a simple process. The people had no will to fight back, so they had no need for their guns. As for the soldiers of the Khmer Rouge, to conserve bullets, shooting dissenters was not the most common means of execution. According to reports, 29% were shot, 53% died from blows to the head, 6% were hanged or asphyxiated with plastic bags, and 5% had their throats slit.
The denial of humanity, or of any importance as an individualism is accomplished through a campaign of convincing the subjects that individualism is in itself dangerous, selfish, and destructive to the overall needs of the state. However, dissent still emerges. The human mind, if not properly controlled through fear, or if willing to deny the fear, can still rebel. Therefore, other methods of brainwashing and mind control must be put into place, and in today's society, the tyrants are looking to the possibility of using technology for that purpose.
As a science fiction fan, fictional stories about tyrants who use devices to control the minds of the public so that they may do his bidding are plentiful. We've known all along that humanity's willingness to withstand tyranny lurks deep inside our minds, and even if trained to obey, once the bug of liberty bites someone, they will fight to the death, if they must, to achieve it. Therefore, the natural conclusion is that if the tyrants are going to have to be able to fully control the minds of their subjects and completely block out the hidden corners of the mind. If the fears put into the subjects of tyrannical bondage by authoritarianism is not enough, mind control would be the next way to accomplish the dirty deeds of tyrants.
Can human subjects be not only indoctrinated in a way that causes an impairment of autonomy, but put into a state where they are actually unable to think independently? Is it possible to disrupt their religious beliefs and political affiliations through the application of modern technology, and do so in such a way that we don't even realize it?
Flashback to 1999, when the forensic psychologist Dick Anthony revealed that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) invented damning brainwashing techniques against communism during the Korean War.
It later emerged that the United States government had indeed been experimenting on how to control the human mind immediately after the end of World War II. In 1945, the government secretly recruited many Nazi scientists, some of whom had been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials, but who had already been working on similar projects. Cooperation with the U.S. Government meant escape from death for their war crimes.
By the 1950s, the CIA and the Defense Department had in place an operation code named MKULTRA. The project was later renamed Project ARTICHOKE. The purpose was to study mind control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics.
The CIA never confirmed, nor denied, what they were up to.
The scientific research ultimately led to patent number US 6506148 B2; titled “Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors.” Is it related to the government's work? Or is this a separate and private patent?
The Abstract of the work reads: “Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near ½ Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. For the latter, the image pulsing may be embedded in the program material, or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream, either as an RF signal or as a video signal. The image displayed on a computer monitor may be pulsed effectively by a simple computer program. For certain monitors, pulsed electromagnetic fields capable of exciting sensory resonances in nearby subjects may be generated even as the displayed images are pulsed with subliminal intensity.”
According to the publication on Google, Hendricus G. Loos is the owner of the work. He filed the work in June 2001, but was published in January 2003.
If the science is true, can the nervous system can be manipulated by electromagnetic fields from monitors? Are we being manipulated through our computers and televisions? Or, was Loos simply trying to reveal that it "can be done" so that we may be on guard as the government pursues the science?
The evidence is so sparse, one can only surmise that all of this is still nothing more than a conspiracy theory. . .But. . .the government has been known for being pretty good at covering its tracks. Just look at how good the Democrats have been at covering up their history of racism, and their use of the NSA in trying to manipulate the 2016 election, and then blaming it on Russia.
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