If such a system exists to coerce, persuade, influence and control people–then why doesn somebody use it to take over a nation or the world?
This has already happened. The politics of fear, control of information and the environment and the use of propaganda has been successfully employed to control nations. Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, the Ayatollah’s Iran and Sadam’s Iraq are just a few examples. Such intense influence and control allowed Hitler to set the stage for the Holocaust. Many dictatorial and extreme national leaders have historically been labeled as “megalomaniacs” and “psychopaths.” They are not unlike destructive cult leaders, who often have messianic pretensions and delusions about world influence. In this sense, movements such as Nazism, Stalinism and Maoist philosophy can be seen as cults clearly fitting within the criteria advanced by Robert Jay Lifton in his paper on “cult formation”. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all “charismatic leader[s] who increasingly be[came] an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the[ir] group[s] los[t] power.” These lead
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