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Brain Will Be Battlefield of the Future, Warns US
Anti-Globalism sends this except from the Guardian:
"In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies. They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision. ...The report highlights one electronic technique, called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie."
So George Bush has lost that one already.
I bet it also puts a hurting on your ability to tell the truth. Or tell anything.
This stuff promises to get ugly, but any contractors that claim enough info to disriminate between connections firing during lies vs truth is overselling their tech.
Time to start working on improving tinfoil hat technology!
We'll make millions!
*Said in my best Revolver Ocelot impersonation*
AC-tivate it!!
Hey, we've already got our own homegrown versions of the Nightwatch, so why not go the rest of the way?
"called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie"
Why yes, if I'm being electrocuted, I 'm pretty sure it will delay the ability to think coherently, let alone lie.
Sheesh, why don't they just call it electrocution and call it a day here? I'm sure it was just accidental that they only tested the lie part.
Why else did They Save Hitler's Brain???
Now I am leaving Earth for no raisin!
So this is what they meant by "hearts and minds".
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
We've been saying it for years. Heck, just type Justin Bailey to confirm it. (Don't forget the dashes you noob)
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
... appear as though both sides have gone to tactical nukes early in the war.
Have gnu, will travel.
The temptation will be too great. Crowd control? Voter control? Don't like the price of fuel? Easy. A way will be found to change your mind.
At what price? Chemical weapons developed in the 1950s-1980s cost billions to destroy. Are mind-control weapons going to be equally as horrible? Historical trends would say so.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
From the article:
> On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with "pharmacological land mines" that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact
How likely is that? Someone will invent a drug to make you immune to incapacitating drugs, and we'll go back to bullets and explosions.
> "The concept of torture could also be altered by products in this market. It is possible that some day there could be a technique developed to extract information from a prisoner that does not have any lasting side effects," the report states.
I hope not. I imagine the police could give you the stuff and ask you if you ever commited any crimes. It'll be a routine thing, just like taking your fingerprint and DNA and firstborn, when you are arrested.
> "In the intelligence community, there is an extremely small number of people who understand the science and without that it's going to be impossible to predict surprises. This is a black hole that needs to be filled with light," Green told the Guardian.
There's a dumb analogy if I ever saw one. Let's shine light on the black hole!
> The technologies will one day have applications in counter-terrorism and crime-fighting. The report says brain imaging will not improve sufficiently in the next 20 years to read peoples' intentions from afar and spot criminals before they act, but it might be good enough to help identify people at a checkpoint or counter who are afraid or anxious.
Do we really need a brainscan for that, though? People who are afraid or anxious are easy to spot, and being afraid or anxious hardly makes you a criminal.
> "We're not going to be reading minds at a distance, but that doesn't mean we can't detect gross changes in anxiety or fear, and then subsequently talk to those individuals to see what's upsetting them," Green said.
Will that talk involve one of those lie-detector brainscan-things?
> The development of advanced surveillance techniques, such as cameras that can spot fearful expressions on people's faces, could lead to some inventive ways to fool them, the report adds, such as Botox injections to relax facial muscles.
Dude, enough about anxious people alright. People are afraid and nervous all the time about all sorts of things, and the thought that some asshole security guy is going to detect that with some sort of remote brainscan and invite them to have a chat will only make that worse. How many of these people will turn out to be innocent? Many.
As someone recently diagnosed with a neurological condition, given drugs to treat it, given drugs to deal with the side effects, and now am on drugs to treat my psychological reaction to it, I've seen first hand how certain drugs can alter your mood and even change your perspective.
One drug they have me on makes it impossible for me to get upset about anything. If we could isolate what it is that makes the brain do that, put it into an airborne form and spray it over an enemy, then we could simply march in and say "We are taking your land, your government and your freedom", and their response would be (in a semi-zombie state) "Oh. Okay. I hope you enjoy it".
All without firing a shot.
The Internet is generally stupid
They will not be horrible. You will learn to like them.
for the love of god and all that is holy, we are d00med
So, in 20 years, we'll have various forms of mind control, so we can force immortal (available in 20 years) enemy soldiers to steal the (available in 20 years) fusion powered (available in 20 years) flying cars (available in 20 years) and attack the space elevator (available in 20 years) that supplies our permanent colonies on the moon (available in 20 years)?
The future's looking bright!
"I haven't worked without insurance since that time the Red Catholics dropped the auto-cannibalism meme on Karel Square..."
From TFA:
On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with "pharmacological land mines" that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact, ....
Fortunately, our youth appear to have gotten a head start at familiarizing themselves with the effects of such drugs and the training necessary to deal with such tactics.
Imagine the dismay of an enemy that, when interrogating a prisoner using extreme methods is answered every time with,
"Dave's not here."
Have gnu, will travel.
> How many of these people will turn out to be innocent? Many.
What do you mean by "innocent"? I'm pretty sure you'll find that everyone subjected to police scrutiny with devices like that will be found guilty of something.
That had this: Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dnrd2xf5DIlU run through their head when they read the headline?
The U.S. really needs an English to Wisdom dictionary.
What bothers me most is that the figure of speach, "changing your mind", will become quite literally.
Freedom of speech? Our problem will be freedom of will.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
i'm in ur brain
haxoring ur megahurtz
scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind
yay, now as soon as you walk in the door: "i'm sorry, but you don't meet our requirements for cookie-cutter-state-of-mind-x, good luck getting hired elsewhere, but it's now a 'standard practice' in the industry, and we make money selling data about this scan"
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Oh man, CIA is gonna be so pissed that DIA is givin' away all their mind-control secrets!
If the majority of a society joins in, who the fuck cares about being part of that society, and if the majority doesn't join in, then it isn't so much of a problem.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Just who are they conducting them on?
Is this even legal?
What is to stop them from controlling us all?
They're using their grammar skills there.
Go buy yourself a copy of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'.
You'll find that control of the mind, and thus the population through mood adjustment on demand, and communal broadcast 'hallucination', play a big part.
I haven't described it perfectly, don't want to ruin the book. Suffice it to say none of this made it into the film. Not that I don't think the film is awesome, its just different in ultimate message.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
"The human mind: 600 miles of synaptic fiber, 5 and half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter. A three pound pile of dreams. But I'll tell you what it really is! It is the ultimate battlefield and the ultimate weapon.
The wars of this modern age, the Psychic Age, are all fought somewhere between these damp, curvaceous, undulations.
From this day forward, you are all psychic soldiers, paranormal paratroopers, mental marines who are about to ship out on the adventure of their lives. THIS is our beachhead! And THIS is your landing craft! You shall engage the enemy in his own mentality! You shall chase his dreams! You shall fight his demons! You shall live his nightmares!
And those of you fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to be international secret agents. In other words:
PSYCHONAUTS!"
-Morceau Oleander
I don't know about SPORT, but it sure is FUN if you're doing it to them right!!
In this book, Sharon Moalem writes about the scary ways diseases, parasites and bacteria alter human behavior. Genital herpes, for example, might just influence people to be more promiscuous (but not TOO promiscuous). There was also a discussion of some parasites, like a wasp that stings a spider to embed its eggs in the spider. The larvae then alters the spider's brain activity to reroute its web-making routine such that it creates a cocoon for the larvae. Similarly, parasites that thrive in sheep cause ants to become focused on running to the top of grass strands to be easy targets. This allows the parasites' eggs to be excreted in the sheep feces and still end up back in the sheep. The number of hypothetical cases of bacteria, parasites or viruses altering human mental activity is frightening at first. That said, I don't know how well-backed any of these hypotheses are.
Maybe they'll come up with a viable basilisk attack?
TFA focuses on war, but lets talk about the causes, not just the effects of war.
On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with "pharmacological land mines" that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact, while scanners and other electronic devices could be developed to identify suspects from their brain activity and even disrupt their ability to tell lies when questioned, the report says.
What if instead of "disrupting their ability to tell lies when questions" were applied to political candidates instead of to soldiers? I believe there is a time and a place to wage war, but I'd be more supportive if the motives of our leaders were "filled with light" before they were elected and before we went to war. I'd like to see each political candidate for federal office asked to undergo a standard screen before they were allowed to accept any party nomination. I can even throw out a list of questions that I'd love to see the voters of the US get honest answers to:
It might be assumed from these questions that I'm against the wars and the policies of current elected officials, but the truth is that I agree with some of the policies and actions we've seen from our representatives in the house, senate and president, I'm even proud of them from time to time. At the same time I'm terribly disappointed in their lack of consistency and the feeling I always get that there are reasons and motivations that they hide from the people they are supposed to represent. I'd love to get honest answers about their motivations.
B) Eliminate all the stupid users. This is frowned upon by society.
You can't call it electrocution when they're not dying from electrical shock.
> On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with "pharmacological land mines" that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact
So, they're going to try "Agent Orange" again?
Next: Scientists finds that the molecules in the gun barrow when in contact with your throat may delay your desire to rape a giraffe.
I for one do not welcome our new brain-controlling overlords.
An old joke used to be, "just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you," now it doesn't seem so funny. :(
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
I doubt that they'll cost billions to destroy; atomic and chemical weapons created something that was toxic.
Mind control weapons shouldn't be any more costly to dispose of than a tank or gun. If it's electronic, it'll likely be things already found in today's electronics. Not exactly great for the environment, but not immediately toxic.
Now if it's a drug in gaseous form, it may be a bit worse, but even then something that is mostly safe for human consumption probably won't hurt the environment too much.
I am not an expert. If I am misled in something, please correct me.
I love how military innovation is so "innovative."
Behavior altering drugs? What drug could possibly top what suicide bombers do now.
Drug land mines? What mine could top blowing the guy up.
If murder is the goal, murder is easily done already.
And there are plenty of drugs and torture methods that help people say truthy things.
Of course it's hard for anyone to get good answers over all the screaming...
If the Nazis had, had color television and Gobbel's version of Fox news, we'd probably all be giving the Hitler salute, those of us alive that is. :(
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
Weapons and oil investors like Cheney and Bush and their friends and families and associates want to see everything in terms of aggression.
"In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency..." means "We want to sell our ideas of aggression to taxpayers. You pay, we play". It's P.R., only that.
> Re:Delay a person's ability to tell a lie
> The sales demonstrations certainly would be fun. Hook up the sales rep and then start asking questions about the product. :)
It wouldn't be as interesting as you're imagining. It would just make the demonstration take a lot longer...
Last time I checked the brain had a lot to do with biology. Would developing weapons to manipulate multiple brains constitute developing biological weapons of mass destruction.
Well, there's always tinfoil hats. And the fact that someone modded you up for "insightful" is proof that my tinfoil hat buisness should start advertising on /.
Or maybe it's just proof that some people confuse "insightful" with "paranoia parading as wisdom."
Judging by the people I deal with on a daily basis, I think that this battle of the minds could take place on the head of a pin.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Psychological warfare. We already have effective (*cough* inhumane) methods to combat minds.
It's the potential superfluity of them, as they're probably short range devices. In the wrong hands, we'll all be buying crunchy peanut butter.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Tin, lead, mu metal, something.
A friend relays that HD radio has a subcarrier... ;)
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
... and in that iteration the weapon of choice was LSD. (Both the US and the CSR worked on developing it as a weapon, and IIRC Ken Keasey was first exposed to it as an Air Force volunteer. I wonder from time to time what happened to the tons of it the Czechs synthesized for the Warsaw pact.)
You would think people would be able to learn from the past. I would suggest that Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss be required reading at the DIA.
Coach Morceau Oleander: The Human Mind: 600 miles of synaptic fiber, five and a half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter...a three-pound pile of dreams. But I'll tell you what it really is. It is the ultimate battlefield--and, the ultimate weapon. The wars of this modern age--The Psychic Age--are fought somewhere between these damp, curvaceous undulations. From this day forward, you are all psychic soldiers. Paranormal paratroopers! Mental marines who are about to ship out on the adventure of their lives! This [points to the brain diagram] is our beachhead! And this [points to his own head] is your landing craft. You shall engage the enemy in his own mentality--you shall chase his dreams, you shall fight his demons, you shall live his nightmares! And those of you who fight well, you will find yourselves on the path to becoming international secret agents-- in other words...Psychonauts!! The rest of you...will die!
There goes the likelihood of ever seeing another recruit again.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
According to the novel 1984, one of the ultimate goals of a dictatorship is devising a way to read people's minds. In the novel, this translates to entire scientific research sections dedicated to such projects, as well as the constant use of psychological techniques (illustrated in the book) for the surveillance and interrogation of the general populace.
This is not surprising. It derives from becoming paranoid and losing trust on your fellow human beings: "what if someone is secretly thinking of killing us? we ought to have a way to tell!". I hope no one ever gains such understanding, as it would be a serious threat to freedom.
If this is the case then i think MTV, all michael moore movies and hanna montana music should be classed as WMD's.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
We are all screwed.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
This sounds like chemical warfare to me. Wikipedia defines chemical warfare as "using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure or incapacitate an enemy." While they're not poisonous by design, it does put us on a slippery slope in that direction.
YGBM: You Gotta Believe Me weapon.
When the military or a collective of enough industry voices declare where we're going to be in twenty years, you can safely bet that those advancements are already here in some dark lab someplace.
My reasoning is this: When you have developed a super-advanced technology in secret, then when it is out-moded and no longer useful because it is being replaced by an even more super-advanced secret technology, what do you do with it? Why you sell the heck out of it. Profit, profit, profit. The bad guys understand and live in the frequency of all things one can be fearful of. A big one is the Fear of Want. --Will I be safe from being homeless on the streets? Better make enough money to get a house. Will I be safe from a mortgage collapse? Better own a house and lots of extra money on top of that to see me through the hard times. Ooh, but the natives are growing restless. I better make sure my house is gated with armed guards on the walls. How much does that cost? Oh, and what if the economy collapses altogether? I'd better have enough resources saved up to be REALLY safe.
It never ends, and so greed never ends. You need more to protect what you have, which in turn needs protecting. Fear, fear, fear.
And so. . , you find schemes to make lots and lots of money. Keeping the economy running on new tech advancements; keep the people chasing after new and better stuff to replace old and outmoded stuff. So when your secret technologies which multiple agencies sworn to secrecy have been working on in compartmentalized areas with talk-and-die non-disclosure agreements signed and filed. . , when those technologies no longer serve to protect you directly because of newer and better items, you sell them! Yay!
But hold on. You can't just dump a super-advanced technology on the market just like that. People will ask, "But where did it come from? Hey! Are you making secret technologies? With tax money? Well we want some of that!"
So you need a narrative. You need to establish a logical development path for a new technology to sprout from for people to see. It doesn't have to be true, but just true enough. Think of all those poor busy-work developers re-inventing stuff in a guided manner so that their 'new' stuff lines up with the prescribed flow of stuff which you want to drop on the market in ten or twenty years time. Stuff, stuff, stuff!
A silly game. Enjoy your iPods.
-FL
No!
This article is propaganda designed to give you a false sense of security.
They already have the technology. They developed it at Area 52 in New York. (Area 51 is just a decoy.)
Always wear your tinfoil.
If possible, wear lead foil shields for extra protection. Or better yet, scour old battlefields for depleted uranium. (I found mine at old test sites in Nevada.)
Build a radiation monitor from a shopping cart. (If people ask, claim it is an RF data detector/monitor for subways.)
Never go to sleep. Be ever vigilant against attack. Sleep deprivation makes the mind more creative and insightful. It gives you more time to think. More time to understand the conspiracy and take preventive measures. (The wee hours are the best time to share insights on Coast To Coast AM.)
Absolutely correct, and depending on the sophistication of the operation, they'll throw some sacrificial amateurs to the authorities as a distraction while the professionals go on about their business. If they feed the sacrificial lambs disinformation about the true objective (but just enough info to be credible), it will tie up investigative resources.
Fortunately, a steady diet of US Weekly, People, and OK! will make us the world leaders in this "brain" battlefield of the future.
and the result was a guy on LSD jumping out of a building through plate glass. Sounds like a boondoggle for big Pharma though. More worthless, tested for 3 weeks, $20 pills.
Now where was that brochure for the Psychonauts training camp...
No sig
Given what happened with LSD I'm getting pretty stoked to see how we can un-weaponize these new pharmaceuticals and tech.
Thank you Dave Raggett
The secondary market for this has to be HUGE.
Possible Spin-off:
Can you imagine the female "Does He Really Love Me" market segment? Half the people on the planet. I'm serious. Can you imagine the first person that marketed shoes? Rolling in the big Fortuna now. All those aspiring brides-to-be who need to know the truth.
i tried to tag this p.k.dick but the interface:1 me:0
..from Ghost in the Shell (Anime) will be the ultimate battleground!
Sell enough scans, and you'll never need to hire anyone -- except to make more scans!
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Obviously they asked a panel of, at least primarily, neuroscientists. TFA doesn't mention that the report wasn't an all-around technology assessment, but rather is from the outset a futurism projection of neuroscience: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12177&page=R1
They didn't come to the conclusion, as implied by the tone of TFA, rather it was their starting point and working boundary.
Had they asked a panel of archeologists, the battlefield of the future would probably be inside the Great Pyramid, but The Guardian would fail to note the profession of the report writers, instead simply calling them "leading scientists".
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
Why shoot the alien in the head when you can mind control him, have him walk around and expose all his buddies, maybe take a shot at one, then prime a grenade for 0 and drop it at his feet?
But really it's the next logical step. First you remove as many of your own guys from having any chance of getting killed themselves, not because you care about them but so that the people won't get outraged at your losses. Then you don't kill the people on the other side either and the people will let you do just about anything.
... including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision. ...The report highlights one electronic technique, called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves using electrical pulses to interfere with the firing of neurons in the brain and has been shown to delay a person's ability to tell a lie
Several of these techniques are already covered under international law, I think: You are not allowed to force prisoners of war to take drugs or undergo drastic treatments, like transcranial stimulation; and of course spreading behaviour-altering drugs in the environment is chemical warfare.
I don't see that there is anything new in these things - it is just some general's wet dream of absolute power. We have known about mind-altering drugs for millennia: Magic mushrooms, peyote etc. Boosting senses: telescopes and microphones. And forcing people to tell the truth: that has always been the purpose and definition of torture; whether you beat seven kinds of shit out of a person or use electricity in various strengths is immaterial.
In recent years we have become more refined in some areas; we understand better how the brain works, but there is still a very long way to go before we can read a person's state of mind in any detail. The problem is that our brain is incredibly adaptable. Even if we lose large areas of brain tissue, other areas can take over and compensate. This plasticity means that there is a limit to how fine a resolution we can achieve with a brain scanner. Add to this the fact that scanning the brain also influences it - like in quantum mechanics, the harder you look, the more you disturb what you look at.
These techniques will provide valuable scientific insight and will help doctors cure difficult diseases, but it is doubtful that they will ever become useful as weapons, even if one cares nothing about the ethical side of things.
Well, I'd better finish going through Psychonauts to get a head start on this whole Brain Battlefield thing.
Thank goodness I live in Canada.
The US just declared war on people's brains.
is to just release a whole batallion of zombies. Eaten brains = no war = we win!
Several of these techniques are already covered under international law, I think: You are not allowed to force prisoners of war to take drugs or undergo drastic treatments, like transcranial stimulation; and of course spreading behaviour-altering drugs in the environment is chemical warfare.
Given that the alleged enlightnened democracy of the US of A has seen it fit to bypass their own laws by creating "waterboarding is A-OK" Guantanamo Bay I think we now have a world leading example of saying one thing and doing another.. And that's a "democracy". Try voting against Robert Mugabe, for instance, just as a fun exercise.
However, transcranial stimulation is medically a very interesting technique. It is also used (in limited fashion) in neurofeedback and appears to speed up the impact of some neurofeedback treatments.
Personally, I don't like "input" other than via my normal sensory array, thanks..
They already influence the mind during peacetime. It is called Fox News. (After writing it I am not even sure if I go after funny or insightfull mods)
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
... such as hearing and vision. Apparently, they will be called parabolic microphones and binoculars.
To have so many wars fought with/near you is quite tiring....
War on brain. For too long the brain has mocked us with its pithy comments and wry observations. No longer will we be held to the whims of that pickled organ that hides so smugly in its bony skull-like fortress using us like mindless slaves, forcing us to read endless articles on slashdot, trawling through comment after comment, doing battle with other brains whose ruthless control of their outer extremities is awesome to behold, kablahh!!!!
prepare the survey weasels.
Nah, you are just willfully ignorant. Considering the alternative is just too much for you to accept, so you would rather live in denial. Good night little sheeple.
Eye Isth sooo smartie pants that ppl will knot want 2 fight me. Eye have already 1 the batle. I have best brain on teh planet blessed by the Gods to unweild unhold amounts of destruction with a single thought. Mental acts of war, I will be winner. I sea all teh battlefields and can win in second. I could take over planet. But I won't. ;)
Take something as simple as bribes. For example if a candidate already had a platform that a certain industry likes they are going to sponsor that. Now do some evolution (only two parties, lots of pre-elections until someone rises to the top) and finally the politician with the most support has risen to the top. And it is the politician with the platform best suited to all the people that give money to them.
But they aren't bribed now. They are just supported by the people that benefit from his platform.
This is an oversimplification of the complex processes in politics. Also the issues are very complex as well. And politicians can't lie anymore anyways (risk of exposure) so they don't even say anything anymore. Sure they talk, but do they say anything?
The most honest politician is probabely the one you completely disagree with. Unfortunately it is usually the lunatic on the sidelines.
The future will be more futuristic than previously imagined.
Alternative? What alternative? You mean the hypothetical scenario of "The US, in the future, will use as-of-yet undeveloped brain control schemes for nefarious purposes?"
Yeah, I considered it. Four reasons why it's stupid to worry about it:
1. Pre-emptive: you're worrying about things which haven't yet been made. Not a good reason by itself but...
2. More pressing concerns: Propaganda is real and is working. Why develop mind control in a pill? The oil companies are convincing gullible people that oil is infinite, no global warming, no security concerns, we don't need alternatives using the second oldest profession: advertising. Voter control? What do you call political campaigns?
You're worrying about little green men abducting you as you are being kidnapped by real humans.
3. Lack of evidence: related to the first two. Proof that this is going on? As nonexistent as a mind control pill.
4. Government incompetence: Pols can't manage to keep their illegal fundraising activities secret, and the US government can't defeat illiterate, ignorant islamic radicals You really believe they're inexplicably competent at developing effective mind control drugs, producing them, deploying them, and KEEPING IT ALL A SECRET?
So let me reivse your statement:
"Considering the hypothetical scenario is just too ridiculous and stupid for you to even consider so you would rather not focus on delusions."
Yes, it's true when you put it like that.
According to Pat Benatar love is already a battlefield, baby!
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning