The chapter delves into the themes of mind control and government agencies neutralizing assets, drawing comparisons to fictional narratives like 'Treadstone' and 'American Ultra'. It discusses the comparison between the movie's title and the potential influence of MK Ultra, exploring conspiracy theories linking serial killers to mind control experiments. The conversation reflects on the portrayal of characters as accidental heroes and the perceived failures of mind control operations.
We discuss the broad course of 20th century scientific inquiry into the ability to control the Mind of Man, and how initial projects aimed at creating secret super assassins trickled down to manipulating people into buying running shoes and bad pop albums.