Am I suggesting he was mind-controlled? On the Rigint forum? How inappropriate.
In all seriousness, that suggestion sounds crazy to people who are completely unaware of all the covert mind-control technology projects that have been going on for decades.
Unfortunately, like it or not, we NOW live in that world. It is our reality. People can now probably be turned into human proxies and remote-controlled to do things they might not otherwise do with such specificity*, that one could do it with a keyboard and mouse. The human proxy is the avatar for the controller using a gaming console. And if it's not already being done on the sly, it is IMMINENT.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/0 ... rs-secretsThat above link talks about technology that has been in development for decades. And this is just the declassified version.
I posted a link about it on here last week, but nobody commented.
The nice thing about such technology, is that it almost completely erodes the possibility of someone suspecting an assassination, since you could remote control the human proxy into getting his suicide note notarized, video-taping an explanation, done in a competely sober tone, followed by the actual act itself, in front of disinterested witness without any intelligence agency connections. Inside, the person might even be screaming NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Or not, because maybe the level of control exists to remove those thoughts to the point where the person actually thinks what they are doing is completely volitional.
So, the next time some 7-11 clerk goes on a rampage and then offs himself, thanks to this technology, we can no longer assume that he was crushed by his environment, we now have to contend with the possibility that someone else was pulling the strings.
* During WWI, women mind-controlled men into enlisting and putthing their lives at risk by shaming them with a White Feather. A much cruder technology, but still pretty effective on a big picture scale, unless you were a self-conscious, die-hard pacifist.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfeather.htmWith regard to Top Gun being pro-War, Anthony Swofford wrote about Apocalypse Now, supposedly intended to be anti-war, as having a pro-war effect on the troops that watched it. People loved to quote the "smell of napalm in the morning line," and the anti-war message was lost by the excitement of shooting and explosions.
If you've ever played a shoot-em-up in multiplayer mode, you eventually come to the realization that war is so inherently dangerous, that no matter your skill level, you still have a de minimis lifespan, and that's under the ideal conditions of the game, where your avatar doesn't get tired, and ammo and automatic healing are plentiful.
