At first glance, I get some of the skepticism people have about it, but at the same time, if he was sitting there talking about being 99% sure about MKUltra and there was not concrete evidence for MKUltra, I’d probably have some skepticism for that too. And yet, the US is the kind of state that did MKUltra. And this is significantly less far-fetched, as far as I can tell. I think it just seems more extreme on the face of it because of the consequences; the plausibility of it as presented is rather mundane, mechanically. A state (the US) that couldn’t care less about human life other than as a strategic asset calls upon science for a magic bullet answer to some problem, mismanages it, gets an actual bullet instead.
At first glance, I get some of the skepticism people have about it, but at the same time, if he was sitting there talking about being 99% sure about MKUltra and there was not concrete evidence for MKUltra, I’d probably have some skepticism for that too. And yet, the US is the kind of state that did MKUltra. And this is significantly less far-fetched, as far as I can tell. I think it just seems more extreme on the face of it because of the consequences; the plausibility of it as presented is rather mundane, mechanically. A state (the US) that couldn’t care less about human life other than as a strategic asset calls upon science for a magic bullet answer to some problem, mismanages it, gets an actual bullet instead.