Derren Brown: The Assasin

sigh

Yea, dyslexia is a pain in the ass, but not as much as Captain Grammar.

just watched it - oh my, shocking!

Shocking, interesting, entertaining and very, very educational.

His latest one where he convinces an innocent person that he committed murder and is going mad was incredible!!

It took just a few Pavlovian bell signals, misdirectioon, suggestion and a few actors to pull off the most incredible piece of mind control I have ever witnessed.

Here's a link to the channel4 OnDemand service.

Apologies if you can't see it from your country.
I will try and record some of these and sneak them onto youtube. They are all masterpieces of TV production, each 50 minutes of genius.

[link to www.channel4.com]

BTW, I've just finished reading "The Seach for the Manchurian Candidate" which is not a novel.

It described how CIA agents with big budgets tested hypnosis, psychedelics and mind contol in the fifties and sixties. Not to be confused with Jon Ronson book that inspired the film 'The Men who stare at Goats'

Their conclusion was that they could make certain people kill a target, but making them keep their mouths shut was always an uncertain result.
They concluded that they didn't need these processes as the Mafia was always close at hand to "clean up and shut up".

All the Experiments are fascinating - strongly recommend them all. He mentions mkultra in the assassin - it's becoming mainstream now .

Gameshow is quite shocking though- herd mentality at its worst but until everyone wakes up to their own part in creating the misery we all experience then we will continue to create and experience it.

I think more fascinating than the results of his show is the reality that we are all eminently programmable and suggestible.

War in Iran anyone- wonder how the news will sell this- probably the same way they have been selling all the other wars we're engaged in -WMD or massacring despot?

Anyway, big thanks to Darren brown, every little helps :-)