I'm afraid they put this article up as part of a plot to persecute those of us who really see what is going on. I think people are delusional when they don't t

I'm afraid they put this article up as part of a plot to persecute those of us who really see what is going on. I think people are delusional when they don't think the government researches mind control on civilians. All stopped when MKULTRA ended, and the mind controllers all went into advertising? No those same people kept doing the same jobs under different names. Suppose the government was doing mind control research on civilians, and were getting sloppy. Planting stories like this in the NYT would represent an instantiation of a well established mind control technique to marginalize the group you were experimenting at controlling. Associating them with other mental illnesses in the general population, so as to induce associations when reports from your failed experiments come out is textbook mind control. It's the exact same technique your favorite store uses to market you your favorite product. Of course, it's also true that many people first feel powerless, then become paranoid to disown responsibility for being a powerless loser. It's a fine line. Personally, I think the idea that there is a many-one relationship between mind control agents and controlled people is ridiculous. They don't need to have many agents doing mind control on one person, because TV gives a mechanism for few agents to control many people, with a higher degree of precision and less resources. Yes, your reality is likely completely programmed by institutionalized sociopathic personalities, euphimistically called corporations ("no it isn't," the reader thought, sipping the mountain dew), but it's narcissistic to think it takes many of them to control one of you. It takes a few of them to control millions of you. I think the root of this kind of paranoia is narcissism and ignorance about how easy mind control and mass manipulation are.