Really comes back to what makes the human mind tick. What makes some susceptible to suggestion and propaganda while others remain resistant? What makes some commit indescribable horrors on their fellow man? What can turn Nurses, Teachers, shopkeepers, clergymen, Parents, Children, office clerks, etc. Into frothing vicious fanatics who will lash out at everyone around them?
Despite all our proclaimed advancement in being able to understand ourselves and our minds. We really haven’t made much progress in truthfully understanding what makes us tick.
We’ve figured out how to subvert a conscious mind into doing things the individual whose mind it is may not want to do.(MK Ultra and subsequent program iterations).
But personally I’d view that as different then actually understanding. Much like how a beginning game programmer can successfully make a simple game. While still being largely ignorant of the more complex aspects of programming.
Really comes back to what makes the human mind tick. What makes some susceptible to suggestion and propaganda while others remain resistant? What makes some commit indescribable horrors on their fellow man? What can turn Nurses, Teachers, shopkeepers, clergymen, Parents, Children, office clerks, etc. Into frothing vicious fanatics who will lash out at everyone around them?
Despite all our proclaimed advancement in being able to understand ourselves and our minds. We really haven’t made much progress in truthfully understanding what makes us tick.
We’ve figured out how to subvert a conscious mind into doing things the individual whose mind it is may not want to do.(MK Ultra and subsequent program iterations).
But personally I’d view that as different then actually understanding. Much like how a beginning game programmer can successfully make a simple game. While still being largely ignorant of the more complex aspects of programming.
A steel spine really helps.