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[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Mind control" suggests there are "controllers" and "controlled", and that these two categories are clearly delineated and consistent. That's not how society looks to me. Those who would be pointed at as being in the "controller" class are every bit as "controlled" as those they in theory are manipulating. The problem with our species is that only the tiniest fraction of the population has a consistent moral code by which they operate. Almost everybody uses "situational morals." It's not that the ruling class has the ability to see a goal and create the control mechanism to manipulate "the masses" into that goal. What we see as "results" are extremely messy, with weird cross-alliances developing on issues where we would expect the "controlling class" to unite, but then suddenly things go chaotic.

The result that you're attributing to mind control is social destruction and chaos. There are people feeding on that chaos, don't get me wrong, but the feeders aren't as coordinated as you make it sound. Each sociopath is running their own particular grift within this miasma of destruction, and on another issue, they might come out more rationally, as long as it doesn't affect their grift.

It's the very lack of moral code that is destroying us most rapidly. Pure corruption, with no unifying tendencies. This doesn't remotely excuse the people "running" the show. They are amoral and committing horrific evil, make no mistake. But the final result of this kind of behavior is not a mind-controlled mass of braindead zombies. No. We're heading more toward the next Dark Age, where there will be feudal lords fighting each other, using their subjects in the fights in the usual brutal and cruel ways we've seen countless times in history. The spikes in "excess deaths" are just the beginning of this process. We ain't seen nothing yet.

Each of us wanting to survive this needs to hunker down and figure out our local resource and protection base. It's the safest way forward in this environment of expanding chaos.