The instability of truth: brainwashing, mind control, and hyper-persuasion

Introduction: From twentieth- to twenty-first-century mind-control techniques

Part 1: Brainwashing arrives. Lima beans at the bottom of the ocean

The volleyball problem

The lonesome friends of science

Violence studies

Part 2: Brainwashing spreads. Literal brain control

A small uh-oh opened up in my soul

I accomodated my thoughts to theirs

Darksome house of mortal clay

Part 3: Brainwashing evolves. How to look inside people, extract their intimate data, and gently nudge emotional states into being

On being emotionally chanied to technology : namely, your radio, television, internet, social media, or friendly-yet-somehow-predatory chatbot

Hopium

Conclusion.