- published: 16 Jan 2016
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Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, menticide, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated". The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making. In Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jacques Ellul maintains that the "principal aims of these psychological methods is to destroy a man's habitual patterns, space, hours, milieu, and so on."
Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed in systematically indoctrinating prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded and modified to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new religious movements (NRMs).
David Vaughan Icke (pronounced /aɪk/, or IKE, born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker, best known for his views on what he calls "who and what is really controlling the world." Describing himself as the most controversial speaker in the world, he is the author of 19 books and has attracted a global following that cuts across the political spectrum. His 533-page The Biggest Secret (1999) has been called "the Rosetta Stone for conspiracy junkies."
Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the Green Party, when in 1990 a psychic told him he was a healer who had been placed on Earth for a purpose, and that the spirit world was going to pass messages to him so he could educate others. In March 1991 he held a press conference to announce that he was a "Son of the Godhead" – a phrase he said later the media had misunderstood – and the following month told the BBC's Terry Wogan show that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes. He said the show changed his life, turning him from a respected household name into someone who was laughed at whenever he appeared in public.
We got to get in this together
Soon they're ll be victims of the mind control
Your government can now control the weather
But now the love can get into your soul
... yet some thing feels old
... your natural
Whoa, ...everyday, the truth is all...
It's all, it's all, it's all, it's all, ours, ours, ours
It's all, it's all, it's all, it's all, ours, ours, ours
It's on the edge of inspiration
Finally feels like we all are waking up
Stretch up, on the ground, bring...
Dance, you've been kept... long enough
...I can make my own laws
... Nobody owns this place, I can be my own god
It's all, it's all, it's all, it's all, ours, ours, ours
It's all, it's all, it's all, it's all, ours, ours, ours
... yeah, mind control every where,
Just try to keep your brain washed
... yeah, mind control every where,
Just try to keep your brain washed
I don't want the right to be rude, I just want the right to be cool
However I chose to do it, I do
Whatever I chose to be or whom
Hey I don't need your money, I can grow my own food
I don't need your beauty standard, I can be my own dude
And I don't pay tuition, I can be my own school
I don't need your prescriptions, I can change my own mood
... yeah, mind control every where,
Just try to keep your brain washed
... yeah, mind control every where,