Religion and Religious Type Concepts Thread

[Have at ye]

Does anyone have an opinion about goverment/elites using subs and hypnosis to control certain public figures?

The "government" does not need to resort to subliminal and hypnotic influence to employ coercive persuasion. All kinds of agencies, groups, etc. - and, yes, national and intra-national governments too - use forms of so-called "mind control" (which, indeed, may have the effect of altering "collective reality", I guess - but that is, I believe, more of an unintended side-effect because they know not what they do. So called "memetic warfare" which results from various forms of ideological propaganda). This has been way more pervasive due to mass-media recently - normally, people tend to have a sort of "immune response" to ideological coercion, but due to the fact that we're being exposed to various forms of it, from multiple sources at the same time, that "immune response" has been gradually diminishing as of late, I believe. F. in. my local government has been doing this in an extremely hamfisted, clearly visible manner recently (they are actually mimicking Soviet propaganda of the old days, lol, just using a different ideological spin - God, Honor, ze Nation, etc.) which is both hilarious and stupid. But it does work on a pretty massive scale, unfortunately.

To see a person who's been seriously brainwashed in action, watch that infamous "Tom Cruise on Scientology" interview. And, yes, the Church of Scientology did that to the poor sap on purpose.