>Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman. I'm sure most HN readers al

>Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman. I'm sure most HN readers already know this, but just feel the need to shout out to Snowcrash, one of the more interesting literary treatments of this topic. The thesis being that most humans are susceptible to NLP mind control except a small subset who happen to have the supremely logical minds of systems engineers. They had to first be taken out by a mind bomb cleverly concealed in visual display static.