Mind control now a possibility?

[Richard]

check this out. Too bad Stalin ain't around to finance this puppy (actually on second thought...)

http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fi...sp?NewsNum=242

and

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...313556,00.html

[imb39]

Beh. We do things like this already. Heard of ritalin? Alright, it dulls the rest of the mind. Many drugs that we take affect the mind by blocking chemicals. It is no surprise that they've found something like this. It was a matter of time.

[Templedog]

Beh. We do things like this already. Heard of ritalin? Alright, it dulls the rest of the mind. Many drugs that we take affect the mind by blocking chemicals. It is no surprise that they've found something like this. It was a matter of time.

sports and beer too.

[Big War Bird]

Seems as though capitalism is natural human behavior. It is so gratifying to have one world view reinforced like this.

[RusskiSoldat]

Seems as though capitalism is natural human behavior.

I never denied that.
It doesn't of course mean that human behavior is perfect (in fact a lot of the times it's really vile).
We have managed to (at least in civilized societies) to control ourselves to a certain extent, but that is nowhere near enough.

[leeho730]

Well, human emotions are basically a set of chemical reactions...

[invictus]

And all this means....i believe will power can class this thing any day. -Leon

[Kanaric]

Their are japanese researchers that are trying to figure out how to control the mind with implants to "cure mental diseases". Manchurian candidate anyone?

[Flavius Silvanus]

One word...Television.

[invictus]

Only the weak minded can truely be affected, so no1 on TWC will have to worry -Leon

[RZZZA]

Ritalin doesnt block the mind...I took adderral for a little while, its a druig like ritalin, I could focus my mind through a brick wall on that drug. It was amazing, I'd take it before I went to school and suddenly nothing was funner to me than sitting in school, answering questions and writing essays. Its a students wonder drug...but the side affects were quite severe after a while, I was taking twice sometimes three times the recomended dosage because I liked it so much. Just talking about it now makes me want to take it again...

But as for mind control...ever see the manchurian candidate? MM...hmmm....

[Hodor]

Ritalin doesnt block the mind...I took adderral for a little while, its a druig like ritalin, I could focus my mind through a brick wall on that drug. It was amazing, I'd take it before I went to school and suddenly nothing was funner to me than sitting in school, answering questions and writing essays. Its a students wonder drug...but the side affects were quite severe after a while, I was taking twice sometimes three times the recomended dosage because I liked it so much. Just talking about it now makes me want to take it again...

Adderal is an amphetamine, and as such still pretty addictive - basically, Adderal is to meth what Oxycontin is to heroin.

As for the drug in question in the article, its probably more comparable to antipsychotics, which affect the more primitive regions of our brain (i.e. those controlling things like motivation and sex drive), thus providing relief from symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

[RZZZA]

Yeah, adderrall, ritalin, and concerta are all basically in the same field...theyre meant to help kids with A.D.D. pay attention. However, that doesnt mean that only kids with A.D.D. will feel the effects of these drugs if they were taken. They are still drugs, of course. In my experience, adderrall is the most "drug" like out of all of them. That is, it'll make you feel good....great actually...like drugs tend to do. If you take your recomended dosage the so called "good" effects of the drug is downplayed, but you can still feel it...increased alertness and interest in everything, increased socialbility, feelings of intense euphoria, feeling like youre the greatest, youre hot s$%&...basically if you had no self esteem before you took adderall...boy, youll have a lot afterwards. But there are other side affects...again remember that they are downlplayed somewhat if you stick to your recommended dosage or less...very bad cottonmouth, you feel fidgity, insomnia...basically the slang term for the side affects is what we hip kids call feeling "cracked out".

I hear ritilan and concerta are less "drug like" than adderrall...that is you still are more focused, but you dont feel as good as on adderrall. But I personally never tried ritilan and concerta, I got the info from a friend. Theyre all drugs and theyre all addictive, but I think adderrall is more so because it has amphetamine in it...like the dude above me said.

[stop-3]

It is continual astonishment to me that so called 'education' is not recognised as mind control. I have noticed this trend - those more 'educated' are most mind controlled of all (this is a generalisation of course). These people tend to end up being in power and thus the business of mind control is perpetuated in horrible fashion.
Someone mentioned above the telly. How true! Telly is heaven for the control-perverts that rule us. How excellent for them that telly (and all it's various forms-films etc) becomes ever more pervasive in life.
Of course, religion is all about mind control and Marx talked about opiates and religion and socialists are supposed to hate this yet they say 'we will engineer souls'. See how humans are profoundly evil!

[Lord Tomyris]

Reminds me of "A Clockwork Orange", the film directed by Stanley Kubrick, where ultra-violent Alex DeLarge is arrested by the government and given an unnatural aversion to anything violent.

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

I'd actually want some of that stuff if they can put it in pill form. I think I might have some sort of attention deficit disorder cause I'm really easily distracted and I find it hard to concentrate on work. If this stuff can make me read boring text books all day without an urge to watch TV, then I'm all for it.