Mind Control in the 21st Century

[Magical]

Educate yourself....Please!
Magical

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"Mind Control" is to be catalogued with space travel, wrist radios and ray-guns; yesterday’s fantasy becoming today’s reality. Certainly, it goes without saying, that "Mind Control" is more accurately addressed as "Behavior Control;" one leads to the other. Accommodating simplicity and common understanding, the term "Mind Control" will be used as a synonym for "Behavior Control."

The topic of "Mind Control" has been the subject of university laboratories, Madison Avenue marketing firms, intelligence services, warfare planning (psyops), pharmaceutical developments, electronic experimentation, psychiatry and medical advances. In brief, "Mind Control" is as factual as the TV set; alive, functional and ever- evolving.

The topic of "Mind Control" is understandably complex. Few doubt the effect of simple propaganda, as evidenced in various wars. Unfortunately, one of the success elements of "Mind Control" is the disdain of those who resist thinking about the topic. Yet, with such horrors as the Nazi applications during W.W. II, the topic of "Mind Control" is highly pertinent to the general public. Specifically, the general public repeatedly asks how a civilized people could possibly commit such well-documented atrocities.

Current (2006) American politics and warfare confront the "Mind Control" issue, head-on. Ignorance, apathy and denial are a deadly combination. "Mind Control" is a function of a variety of descriptors and applications. Most commonly, the term "Psyops" (Psychological Operations) is used.

[derby378]

1. Come to think of it...

...if you practice a magical illusion on someone, that in itself is a gentler form of mind control, but one designed to entertain and delight your subject rather than to impose your will on her.

It all starts when you introduce the apparatus for the trick itself. If she just doesn't like magic tricks to begin with, then the trick itself is probably doomed to failure, so best to let it go. Once the trick is started, though, and the subject is willing to participate, then you can use all forms of suggestion, misdirection, and psychological tricks to fool the subject into thinking an actual miracle took place. A favorite motto among magicians is: Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. (The world wants to be deceived; therefore, let it be deceived.)