'Mind Control' - Really??

The recent 'disclosure' in the wider press about some kind of documented methodology a covert (US) government department has, to do with the capability of exerting 'mind control' over selected members of the public - has a few problematic aspects.

Firstly, the 'research' or at least 'documentation' that was released under an FOI application by the US journalist Curtis Waltman, to the Washington Fusion Center - involves nothing but a litany of ways to do damage to someone, remotely, using electronic fields and waves and so on; nothing to do with actual mind control as such.

Secondly, the whole thing fits in neatly to the YT channels dedicated to disaffected individuals complaining about 'how the government is attacking them using remote beams...'

Remembering that it was Vannevar Bush, and not Richard Dawkins, who originally coined the term 'memex,' as well as the actual concept behind the word, which has now been modified to the word 'meme' - then, we can presume there could be some kind of 'meme' being effected here, rather than there actually being either any technology which delivers thoughts, ideas, and feelings, and images, into people's brains. (I should add, 'via extra-sensory means!').

Mind control technology...

Even if there were a technology that 'beamed' an idea, or an image, or coherent sound, into someone's brain, how does this equate to 'mind control' unless there is an accompanying tool which alters how they feel about that sudden 'image' or purely neural-activated 'auditory signal?'

It doesn't.

Typically, all we are looking at are another bunch of destructive things - sure, using remote transmission techniques and... ...well, so what, but?

Complex propaganda, and highly sophisticated whole systems and layers of data or information might be able to be used to manipulate people's emotions - that seems reasonable enough. It may well be that at some future stage, there could be highly-integrated micro-sized but very complex electronics, adapted into 'wearables,' which provide a sensory atmosphere or 'environment' or 'sense bubble' to the individual wearer. That's possible. And that is not what is constituted by the details in the 'accidental release' of documents to do with government technology on 'mind control.'

There are kinds of advanced prototypes that are down this research path - but they are not in government hands, and they are not destructive instruments.