the.com/mind control
the fantasy that you can hijack a will, when mostly you can only wear it down.
means a set of coercive techniques, real or imagined, aimed at overriding someone's beliefs and choices without their informed consent.
from the term crystallized during the cold war, when cia programs like mkultra chased brainwashing myths born from misreported korean war pow confessions.
coined contextkorean war pow reports, later shown largely exaggerated
cia budgetmkultra ran on classified funds for 20 years
real mechanismisolation, fatigue, and reward beat literal thought-reading
legal statusno country has ever proven true mind control in court
for instance
mkultra — cia program 1953-1973, tested lsd on unwitting subjects
jonestown — jim jones led 900+ to mass death in guyana, 1978
patty hearst case — heiress joined captors' cause after 1974 kidnapping
nxivm — self-help group turned branding cult, exposed 2018