THE HOLY GRAIL OF MIND CONTROL

 If someone figures out how to deploy technology that can send out information in frequencies that the human brain will process, then all of us can be subjected to messaging without our consent - advertising, propaganda, etc.

Further, the same technology reverse-engineered would read our thoughts. Access to the minds of the masses is the holy grail. The ability to deliver unwanted content straight into your mind, and to read your thoughts and scan your memories - these are the violations of your inner space, the final frontier. At the point which this access becomes possible, your mind is no longer your own. 

You already surrender your mind a great deal more than you realize or care to admit, to various influences, but even a subconscious choice is still a choice you can become aware of at some point and modify if you choose. When you have no control over what can be delivered to your brain, and no control over who can access your brain, you no longer have privacy of any kind left. Your thoughts could be criminalized. Your memories could be used against you in various ways. In an era where free speech is under attack, the idea of your thoughts being accessible for analysis and possible persecution is beyond alarming. 

The ability to manipulate the minds of the masses for political and financial gain is equally alarming. And this is no longer conspiracy theory. I'm not talking about implants. Yes, the government does want to know what you're thinking, and where you are all the time, and where you've been. Everything "smart" that you use daily, and adopted voluntarily, is collecting information about you constantly and relaying it elsewhere. You can't retrieve or eliminate that information. Your sole remedy would be to go live off-grid in a radio-quiet zone.

The penetration of the minds of the masses began with the internet, and its influence over you has increased over decades of its existence. The world has become a place where you can't function and don't exist without the internet and devices such as smart phones and GPS in vehicles. People use electronic and digital means to pay for things. There is a massive amount of data about the minutiae of every single person's life, and it is constantly updated. Direct access to your mind would just be far more efficient, and would strip you of any choice in the matter.

While a few companies have developed brain implants, these are not in widespread use. Brain-to-computer interfacing is another area of intense research and development right now. In both cases, the stated goals are to improve quality of life for the end user, in particular for people with assorted disabilities. It's important to bear in mind that these pretexts, while truths to some extent, are never the primary goal. 

Agents of disease are collected and sometimes outright manufactured in labs, with the purported goal of understanding them in order to develop vaccines against them and treatments for them. But a huge part of the lab work also involves investigation into the feasibility of weaponization of these viruses and bacteria, and that should scare the shit out of you. The aerosolization of these agents can cause pandemics, or be used to create disease for a specific target group or location.

While legitimate work is done by countless scientists every day in hopes of curing diseases, preventing disasters, and improving quality of life for the disabled, the cold, hard truth is that the dark side of the research and the inventions is always coexistent. Inevitably, the benefit to human health and quality of life is a future marketing ploy and a secondary benefit, something of a useful side effect. 

I mention the dark side of medical research as a more readily understood example of how the necessary and personally beneficial will always be intertwined with the agendas of those in a position to impose their will on the masses. And those agendas do not serve your interests. They serve corporate greed, political power, and the war machine. All through recorded history, there have always been ways to control the masses. Religion is one of the most successful. 

The idea of governance itself is questionable, because it's not really about making sure the people behave or benefit. It's about enriching the elites and furthering political aims of those in power. No matter the political system, those in power are loath to relinquish it, and those with money influence every aspect of life for the average person. While a society needs some kind of structure in order to function, there has yet to be a society that has not ultimately been about the haves versus the have-nots. 

The desire of the few to impose their will on the many is eternal. All that changes is the means of doing so. And in the future, technology that for now seems indistinguishable from magic will be the way it's done. Before that happens, you might want to take a look at how much of your own mind and free will you've already given up without even realizing it, how you do it on a daily basis. For now, your mind is still your own. Reacquaint yourself with using it instead of allowing it to be manipulated.