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Electroshock and My Dog Squid

Posted on: February 20, 2019, in: , , , , ,

SquidI have a dog we named Squid, because he has long turned up feet, a bit like the Squidward character in Spongebob Squarepants. Squid was in and out of the shelter at least three times by the time we got him. His problem seemed to be that he was very friendly and affectionate, liked to be held, and all the things that make a pet dog desirable, but if you accidentally stepped on his tail or his foot, or if someone accidentally pulled is hair, he’d turn on the offender with a growl. And if he was on the couch and you tried to push him over, he’d turn on you and growl.

Well, here’s this perfectly friendly animal but suddenly he’s threatening, so back to the dog pound, especially if there were kids.

When we got Squid we realized he occasionally had seizures, or epilepsy. His whole body would stiffen up, his feet would jerk and tremble, and he’d vacate his bowels and throw up. So as soon as I would see him stiffen up and start to tremble, I’d move him from the carpet to the hardwood floor to make cleanup easier. It wasn’t hard to move him, he was as rigid as a piece of wood.

It wasn’t very long, however, before he was afraid of the hardwood floor.  We had to put a carpet runner in the hall to get him to walk down to the bedroom at night. And we had to put his food bowl on the carpet, as he’d refuse to walk across the kitchen floor to eat.

He had another seizure while he was drinking from his water bowl, and from then on, he was afraid of the bowl. We changed bowls, tried turning off the lights, but he would bark until he got an escort to stand by him while he drank his water.

Squid is otherwise not a timid dog, and has — when harassed by big dogs – snarled and held his ground. But anything associated with a seizure – such as his water bowl or hardwood floors – terrifies him.

Seizures can be caused by a number of things. Brain lesions, electrical shock, high fevers, or too much insulin for example. Psychiatrists think that inducing a seizure by electricity (called ECT for electroconvulsive therapy) or insulin shock, will alleviate certain kinds of mental illness.

Cerletti's original electroshock machine adapted from a slaughterhouse pig-shocker. Photo by Francesca.pallone

Cerletti’s original electroshock machine adapted from a slaughterhouse pig-shocker. Photo by Francesca.pallone

That stupid idea started when Ugo Cerletti watched pigs being shocked to prepare them for butchering. The shock caused the pigs to seizure and fall down, so it was easy to cut their throats. Cerletti, for some reason, thought this might be a way to treat mental illness, and developed the first ECT machine.

I was in a writing group with a woman who wrote very funny stories, but she had some troubles and received a course of ECT. After that she continued to write but she was no longer funny. Another writer, Ernest Hemingway, had a series of 20 electroshocks, went home, put a shotgun in his mouth and blew the top of his head off. So as a writer, I wasn’t very excited about ECT.

So if causing seizures — such as I witnessed with Squid — is supposed to cure anything, I’m not buying. He’s as crabby as ever if you step on him or try to push him off the couch, but he’s terrified of anything remotely connected to seizures. Those seizures did not remove any mental disturbances from him, they added compulsions and terror.

What worked with Squid was affinity, getting down on the floor and playing with him, talking to him during the day, using “watch out” to get him to move out of the way and something called a nerve assist which stops the seizure very quickly and gets him back to normal.

Recently the FDA reduced the threat level of ECT a notch to make it easier to use it on kids. Don’t buy it, it’s not a therapy at all, it’s like kicking you in the head and hoping you’ll be smarter afterward. You’ll be stupider and boots will terrify you.

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Top NIMH Officials Admit Mental Health ‘Broken’

Posted on: May 21, 2018, in: , , , ,

In “My Adventures With the Trip Doctors” (May 15 New York Times Magazine,) author Michael Pollan drops a bomb – a simple idea that has been denied by the psychiatric, pharmaceutical and mental health communities for years: mainly that psychiatry and psychopharmaceuticals don’t work, and in fact can create and exacerbate insanity, dependence and suicide.

Pollan, while basically extolling the miracles of psychedelic drugs for everything from religious transformation to the healing of mental illness says this in passing:

“Such a new approach couldn’t come at a better time for a field that is ‘broken,’ as Tom Insel, head of the National Institute of Mental Health until 2015, told me bluntly. Rates of depression (now the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the W.H.O.) and suicide are climbing; addictive behavior is rampant. Little has changed, meanwhile, in psychopharmacology since the introduction of SSRI antidepressants in the late 1980s. This may explain why prominent figures in the psychiatric establishment are voicing support for psychedelic research.”

This echoes a statement by Joshua Gordon,  the current head of the NIMH who took office last July. In an interview with the Washington Post, Gordon said “All these off-label uses of any of our psychiatric medications result from desperation on the part of both patients and physicians who don’t know what else to do for their patients . . . The evidence for any of them is nonexistent or minimal. But we don’t have good alternatives. We don’t have evidence-based treatments that really do the job. So that means that people turn to whatever can help them in a symptomatic way . . . It’s a problem that’s borne out of the fact that our treatments just don’t work, or don’t work well, for a substantial fraction of our patients.”

Recent studies indicate that about one in six Americans take psychiatric drugs, and today mental health is a $200 billion industry. With top officials at the NIMH admitting failure, it’s time to reevaluate our commitment to these drugs and those that prescribe them, and to carefully scrutinize measures to legalize psychedelics as “the next great thing.” Psychiatry is desperate for answers and psychedelics could be just the next in a long line of desperate measures that will create the next round of havoc.

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Electricity and the Deep Brain Stimulation Medicine Show

Posted on: December 21, 2017, in: , ,

brainMedicine shows of decades gone by promised their snake oil could cure everything and promoted dangerous drugs like opium to calm children and cocaine for toothache. Asthma cigarettes promised relief from asthma, bad breath, hay fever, bronchial irritation, colds, canker sores, and “all diseases of the throat.” Bayer sold heroin for aches and pains, and amphetamines and tapeworm larvae were sold as weight-loss remedies.

Electricity is the modern snake oil, but electricity and people don’t mix very well, which is why parents tell kids not to stick a butter knife in the light socket.

When I was a kid, growing up on a dairy, we took our city cousins down to the electric fence and have them touch it. It was fun to see them get shocked. My brother and I always tried to get them to pee on the fence but the cousins always got suspicious when they saw the looks on our faces and we never got any takers. The point is we knew electricity hurt, was punishing and even cows avoided it. I wish to apologize to my cousins and anyone who fell for our electricity trick, and bring up a kind of electricity that is supposed to be good for you.

Today something called deep brain stimulation is supposed to cure all kinds of things such as:

Sexual predation
Memory Loss
Tourette’s Syndrome
Gambing
Autism
Parkinson’s Disease
Epilepsy and Movement Disorders
Depression
Anxiety

Now if all this turns out to be today’s snake oil — and IMHO it is — and all else fails, psychiatrists can just just pour the juice to the head the old fashioned way, shock the hell out of the person and roll the dice, after all, this isn’t rocket science. Hey, you may roll a seven, or the guy could – like Ernest Hemingway did after 15 electroshocks – put a shotgun in his mouth and blow the top of his head off. Certainly ended his mental issues.

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Deep Brain Stimulation, LSD and Other Fake Cure-Alls

Posted on: December 18, 2017, in: , , , , , , , ,

greed pixabayMaybe you’ve noticed lately that “scientific research shows” that electricity and LSD cures almost everything. There are many factors pushing this stupidity, among which are:

  1. Pharmaceutical company miracle cures such as antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs don’t cure anything and don’t work any better than placebos.
  2. Those miracle cures have side effects such as mass shootings and suicide.
  3. Those miracle cures are being replaced by generics thus threatening the $1 trillion (with a T) BigPharma revenues.
  4. “Scientific research” isn’t very scientific, as it is influenced by vested interests which either show that BigPharma works or are quietly disposed of, and can’t be replicated when done objectively.
  5. So BigPharma, loaded with jewels and treasure, is hopping off the sinking USS Antidepressant, and onto the luxury yacht “PsychoWire” powered by deep brain stimulation and psychedelics.

First, Deep Brain Stimulation

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) puts electrodes into the brain at various places. When the current is turned on, fingers tap, legs jerk, faces twitch, a charging bull screeches to a stop. Supposedly, depression departs, autism and anxiety evaporate, Parkinson’s stops and such diseases as diabetes, asthma, COPD, arthritis, heart conditions, and gastrointestinal diseases are cured. One variety called “electroceuticals” is pioneered by GlaxoSmithKline, the same company that in 2012 paid $3 billion to the Department of Justice for fraud, phony research studies and pushing drugs off label for kids even though those drugs increased suicides in kids. Nice ethical company has your best interests at heart, let them put some wires in your head, right? Oh and the $3 billion was small change. Right after their $3 billion payout, their stock went up, didn’t even make a dent in the stock price. So they can cheat, steal etc. and even if they’re caught, so what?

  1. Deep brain stimulation was already used in the CIA’s MKULTRA mind-control project in the 1950s. That was secret, but even though CIA Director Richard Helms tried to burn all records of the project, he missed some and the project was exposed. The military was worried about North Korean brainwashing and secretly funded research to keep up with the communists. Today the military is funding electroceutical research this time out in front of God and everybody, because it is camouflaged as help for PTSD, crazy people, etc. But hey, it’s the military, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
  2. There’s another kind of electrical stimulation of the brain called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) kind of a little sister to implanting wires in the head. It has the advantage of being non-invasive, meaning it’s stealthy and doesn’t require the operator to drill through the skull which can sometimes be detected by the person. So it could be hooked up to a doorframe and magnetically stimulate the brains of anybody coming through the door. Make you buy BigPharma stock, or vote to raise taxes for psychiatric research.
  3. And then of course there’s the nuclear option when it comes to electricity and brains, just give the person electroshock, roll the dice and maybe the person will be so stunned he’ll forget to be nuts, or he might – as Ernest Hemingway did after 15 electroshocks – go home and put a shotgun in his mouth and blow his head off. These days they give muscle relaxants so not so many teeth or spines are broken. It’s a kindler-gentler type of electroshock but it causes brain damage and that – like suicide – brings on many changes.

And Then There’s Psychedelics

Have you noticed the promotion of psychedelics recently? Since most Baby Boomer druggies can’t remember the 1960s, many have forgotten – except in vivid flashbacks – the downside of dropping acid and lots of other psychedelic concoctions. Little things like hallucinations and going nuts for a while or forever, and “scorched brain syndrome.”

Timothy Leary told us to “turn on, tune in and drop out,” but later said that LSD got into the public arena and was abused. Poor guy, he had it all figured out that it would only be used by PhDs and above, and then the unwashed masses got hold of it and used it to hallucinate. The CIA used it to drive soldiers crazy and to suicide, and stupid people who grew up watching Superman thought they could fly off tall buildings wearing meat bodies.

OK, so that was then. Today we also have stupid people – who exist in every generation – telling us that LSD, Ahuasca, DMT and other psychedelic substances can cure addiction, PTSD, depression,   anxiety, eating disorders,smoking, OCD, crime, toe fungus, warts,  and every other mental illness formerly treated by pharmaceuticals which have proven ineffective or for which the patents have expired.

But using LSD, for example on those with mental illness can make things worse, according to some sources Stupid people in academia — there are such people, after all Leary was a Harvard professor –  in the military, medicine, psychiatry and government seem to have decided that psychedelics, electroshock and mental health pharmaceuticals are useful, at least to the extent that “we don’t know why they are troubled, and we don’t know what these treatments do, so we’ll just roll the dice, blast their brains  with electricity or pickle them with drugs and see what happens. After all, this isn’t rocket science.”

So a bunch of states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and eight states have legalized it for recreational use. And as evidence it is truly a “gateway drug” small amounts of hard drugs have now been decriminalized in Oregon – stuff like  LSD, heroin, methamphetamine, etc, and initiatives are under way in California  and Oregon to legalize psychedelic mushrooms.

Now the The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies  (MAPS) is also trying to legalize psychedelics and marijuana, and other stupid people are already hard at work on legislation to legalize bad trips and drug-induced psychosis. With all these extravagant claims for psychedelics, these magical mystery cures, one might be advised to consider where these wild claims are coming from and who stands to profit from a nation on drugs.

After all, most of the studies, that all these reports of wonderfulness depend on, can’t be reproduced, meaning they are either sloppy or influenced by their funding to get a specific result. So look for yourself and don’t go dropping acid to cheer up, because you may end up stuck in Nightmare Town with a lot of burnouts from the 1960s.

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Hey, Addiction is a Brain Disease and “IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!”

Posted on: November 20, 2017, in: , , , , ,

drugs pixabayAccording to a statement on the Betty Ford Foundation website, and many other sources, addiction is a brain disease, not a character flaw. This “brain disease model” may be promoted by well-meaning people who have addicted loved ones, but it’s not accurate, just a PR concept, with no scientific evidence whatsoever. But search “addiction is a brain disease” and the Internet is full of people who bought into the lie, claiming that’s the way it is. Opioid addiction, sex addiction, food addiction, Internet addiction, porn addiction, it’s the new fashion statement to be addicted to one or more things that are just too big and strong for little old you to overcome, you poor thing.

Psychiatrists dreamed up this idea to make money and to get more people under their control. First they cozied up to traditional medicine to seem more official, and while psychiatrists have medical degrees, that’s just cover for voodoo head-bump crystal-vibration nonsense that is modern psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

They like to use diabetes, as an example of why drug abusers are so helpless. “It’s something that happens to your body, you can’t do anything about it, it’s not a moral failing, and it requires a drug for the rest of your life.” A drug which — just like all those street drugs out there — were produced by BigPharma.

So if you are drug addicted, it’s not your fault, you can’t help it, it’s your body’s fault, probably something you got from your parents via their DNA. And did I say “IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!”

Along with this brain disease model is the hint of a protected class of citizens who are not responsible for their condition. Drug addicts – I can see it coming – are not responsible for their condition and need care at public expense for the rest of their life, because, after all, it’s a brain disease and IT’S NOT THEIR FAULT.

Well, I beg to differ. Anytime something you do – like knocking over liquor stores to feed your heroin habit, or injecting opioids or cooking meth in your spare room and screaming at people who aren’t there — you are killing yourself, endangering people around you and filling your neighborhood with crazy, amped up psychos who break into houses and shoot people who they think are going to kill them. THAT IS YOUR FAULT YOU JERK!

It’s not your body, it’s the choices and you’ve made them. The choices that led you down back alleys where needles litter the street,  and now you – and all the “brain disease model apologists for drugs and drug abusers” are determined to “reduce the stigma” and engage in “harm reduction” where you don’t get arrested for creating all this chaos, but instead you are swaddled into the caring arms of psychiatrists who will put you on methadone maintenance at public expense, or some of the new psychedelic drugs which means all those people who actually work at real jobs, creating useful products and services for society will pay for your treatment for the rest of your useless and non-productive life.

You can’t change your body, but you can change your mind. If you listen to the psychs they don’t give you a ghost of a chance to dig yourself out and you’ll just keep using street drugs, psych drugs, all kinds of deadly crap, until you overdose and die, and the psychs will shake their heads sadly and say they need more money to treat poor sorry-ass drug addicts like you who need sympathy and drugs to live.  Oh, and let’s get rid of the “stigma” of addiction, because after all it’s a brain disease and IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!

One thing about sympathy? It’s deadly. It’s an agreement from others that you are a sad little nobody. It will suck the life out of you, kill your own ability to push through obstacles. It makes a basically good spiritual being think they get love and help only when they are pathetic.

The psychs won’t tell you this, but you are a basically good spiritual being, who’s been through hell and back. You are tough, you’re still here and you can change your life. It’s not destiny that determines your future, it’s the choices you make. So stop whining and get busy cleaning up. It’s not easy, the drugs make you a slave and you have to do courageous things to break those chains and escape.

And forget about suicide, death doesn’t help. You come back the same spirit you were, with the same temptations, same vices, the same choices in front of you. Different body, different DNA, and it’s not the body that will make or break you. It’s not a chemical imbalance or some phony brain disease, it’s those stupid choices you make.

So stop blaming your body, your parents, the horrible and evil and terrible society that drives you to drink or use meth or some other crap you snort, eat, inject, smoke or cram up your ass. If you want to be a slave there are lots of others out there who will be happy to make you one. You can commiserate, share needles, give each other AIDS and hepatitis and die in some piss-stinking alley feeling really sorry for yourself. Or you can get well you sorry-ass addict and start helping other people — that’s the way out.

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Army Will Now Accept Mental Cases, Train Them to Kill

Posted on: November 14, 2017, in: , , , ,

sniperThe Army is expanding the system of waivers whereby people with mental disorders can join the military. Waivers were cancelled in 2009 when too many soldiers committed suicide, but hey, now they are a bit short of recruits and thus relaxing the standards. According to USA Today, people with a history of drug use, poor aptitude test scores, self mutilation and bipolar disorders aren’t necessarily barred from military service.

Now though, the military has better medical records, and we all know that psychiatrists and psych meds have everything under control. Just ask military psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who shot up Fort Hood and murdered 13 people and injured 30 others. And there’s pretty good evidence of a connection between psych meds and mass shootings.

Half a million vets already have PTSD according to one source and PTSD is exacerbated by stress, trauma and sexual assault. So if you wanted to create a huge spike in military PTSD, murders, sexual assaults and general chaos, you might induct a bunch of men, women, gays, and transexuals with mental disorders and drug abuse histories into the military, give them weapons, train them to kill, then send them off to some combat zone. If this sounds nuts to you, go take a happy pill and in the upside down world of mental health, you will soon be right as rain.

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The Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Railroad

Posted on: November 01, 2017, in: , , , , , , ,

robot pixabayYou take 200 depressed people, implant wires into their brains. Half of the implants you charge with electricity, half you don’t, to get a good control group. Results? A flop, but some people want to keep the implants after the test. Why? Well, as studies have established, depressed people feel better when people ask them how they feel, with a live person running their fingers through those wires in the head. Ethics aside, the big question is – who will pay for these implants, the follow ups, the flashlight batteries, and after the subject’s demise the autopsy, brain slicing and microscopy?

The patients won’t be paying, because as psychiatry transitions from pharmaceuticals that don’t work to implants that won’t work (electroceuticals they are called) bigpharma needs trillion-dollar revenues to overcome generic drug competition, expiring patents, the gradually rising specter of drug side effects such as mass murder, and basically, the fact that popular drugs like antidepressants don’t work, or work only because of “the placebo effect.” And to fund this transition we’re talking big money, that can only come from Medicare, the Veterans Administration, insurance companies or best of all, a single-payer health care system that operates on “from each according to ability, to each according to need.”

This is the beginning, IMHO, of a drive to get deep brain implants, and their cousins, “transcranial magnetic stimulation” paid for not as freaky science experiments but as legitimate treatments for mental and physical disorders. And that means some big bucks, in the “Trillion-with-a-T” range. In exchange, perhaps we can one day plug into our computers and learn to play the piano or dance the tethered tango.

In the meantime, to get us accustomed to the idea, we’re already implanting RFID dog-tracking chips in people for their own good and to give them immediate access to buy stuff from the snack machine, login to computers and use pay toilets. It’s like those spy movies where the guy — to get off the grid — must dig a tracking chip out of his arm with a steak knife.

First to get the implants will be guys with big federal government pockets. Veterans with VA benefits and PTSD, most likely, on lifetime subscription plans paid for by adding to our Chinese debt. Anyway, we’re being railroaded down the track of bad ideas fueled by good sci-fi movies. And – I have to do this – as the Borg always said, “resistance is futile.“

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Michael Phelps, Hero of Recreational Drug Users, Now Depressed

Posted on: October 31, 2017, in: , , , , , , ,

swim pool pixabayThree months after he won eight gold medals in Beijing, Michael Phelps was photographed sucking on a bong, allegedly smoking marijuana, which got him suspended for a few months. This week, Phelps said he struggled with depression, after the Olympics and at one point “didn’t want to be alive anymore.”

Back in 2016, Anthony Papa of the Drug Policy Alliance, used Phelps as a poster child of someone who uses recreational drugs, with no problems.

“Michael Phelps is an American hero who proved to the world that people who smoke or have smoked marijuana can be functional and successful in their lives,” said Papa writing in a HuffPost blog. ” … Maybe the record 28 medals he has won will lead the way to a change in the way people think about recreational drug use.”

Talk about smoke on the water.

For some time now, doctors have warned that smoking pot with today’s high THC levels can cause mental illness, depression, and psychosis.

So don’t take at face value the “happy highs with no downside,” of recreational marijuana. Whatever troubles Michael Phelps has encountered in life, weed didn’t make it better and might have made it considerably worse.

Take a lesson from the “if it feels good do it” crowd — they’re mostly dead or having flashbacks in nursing homes — and  ignore the “legalize” crowd, “the war on drugs is lost” crowd, the “harm reduction” nebbishes and so on. They don’t necessarily have your best interests at heart.

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Five Strikes Against Antidepressants

Posted on: October 26, 2017, in: , , , ,

NO DRUGS pixabayWhat’s wrong with antidepressants? Five things, for starters. Studies show them being only slightly more efficacious than placebos, increasing the incidence of “suicidality,” significantly increasing the risk of death, and when taken by pregnant women, increasing the incidence of mental illness in their children. And while most of these studies were fairly recent, pharmaceutical companies have for some time not been reporting negative effects of their products.

There are a few other things. Antidepressants, well, they depress people, and they cost a lot more than exercise and cutting sugar from the diet, which work about as well as the antidepressants. The only reason you might want to take them, or recommend them to a friend, is if you would like to help boost the income of the world’s highest paid pharmaceutical and health care CEOs.

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What’s Wrong with Mixing Electricity and Brains?

Posted on: October 21, 2017, in: , , , , , ,

Danger pixabayMost people are familiar with movies about drugs, hypnosis, electroshock and so forth that are used to manipulate and control human beings. But they’re science fiction, right? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Terminal Man, The Matrix, Total Recall, The Manchurian Candidate all feture stories about mental manipulation and control.

A little closer to reality One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest showed how electroconvulsive therapy can be used to control and suppress human beings. It was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, and created a wave of revulsion against electroshock that continues today, and is one obstacle  that electroshock advocates must hurdle.

You may be surprised to discover that there are electroshock advocates who are still zapping brains. Most people think the practice died out in the early 1960s, back when author Ernest Hemingway had 15 electroshock treatments, went home, put a shotgun in his mouth and blew the top of his head off.

But psychiatrists are still putting electrodes on the sides of people’s heads and shooting current through their brains. About 100,000 people per year endure the process. Those advocates  make it seem nicer these days, they put the patient to sleep first, and inject them with muscle relaxant so that they don’t break so many teeth and bones from spasms and contractions. Some even load up the body with insulin to make it go into convulsions. It has the advantage of reducing the electric bill, just an overdose of insulin and presto, you have a dazed and confused person who doesn’t seem so crazy.

Electricity even when used with good intentions often  ends up in the heavy hands of control. We’ve used jolts of electricity as punishment in many ways. Electric cattle fences, cattle prods, tasers, electric shock collars for dogs, etc. Ivar Lovaas, a UCLA professor who died in 2010 began putting autistic kids barefooted on electrical wires. He’d turn on the current until they did something non-autistic, then he’d turn off the current. On off, on off,like a light switch  over and over to condition the dog – or children rather – to act less autistic. Slaps, yelling, etc. were also used but electricity was the centerpiece.

And now, with the advance of technology, we’ve got subtle and not so subtle ways of using electricity to control others. Surveillance technology from closed circuit cameras to electronic ankle bracelets, GPS monitoring of cell phone locations, etc. But perhaps the most intrusive new technology is putting wires in people’s brains in something the  psychs call deep brain stimulation. This electrical stimulation of the brain – like electroshock – has its own 1950s bad example.

In the early 1950, it was a secret government project called MKULTRA – don’t worry, this is not “tinfoil on head”  stuff – here’s a document from the Supreme Court describing the program: “Between 1953 and 1966,” said the Supreme Court, “the Central Intelligence Agency financed a wide-ranging project, code-named MKULTRA, concerned with ‘the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.’” One project in MKULTRA was controlling the human mind with chemical and electrical brain implants. It was spurred by the Cold War and the idea was to figure out how to control the enemy’s minds and save money on bullets.

Since the project was bound to create outrage if discovered, it was kept secret for a while and when it was exposed, the CIA Director destroyed most of the records. But enough data leaked out that it was pretty big news.

Since secret government projects often appear on Wikileaks,  this time around — in my opinion — a project similar to MKULTRA  is being conducted in the open, albeit under cover of how electricity, wired into the brain, can  cure brain diseases, epilepsy, speed up learning and so forth. It’s funded by the Department of Defense. Sound familiar? The keyword is “electroceuticals,” a combination of “electricity” and “pharmaceuticals.” And DARPA the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding it.

Another idea is to control minds with wireless electricity, so much less messy. There could be little emitters all up and down the streets making everyone very passive, or happy or normal. But that sounds like science fiction again.

So when you hear about these marvelous new techniques in which electricity makes athletes stronger, makse students smarter, makes epilepsy disappear, stops compulsions and obsessions, and cures all sorts of intractable diseases — just stop a minute and remember that this stuff can be — and probably will be — used for some new and exotic flavor of mind control.

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