It all sound pretty scary, but I have a hard time believing that it's even possible to control another person's mind in any meaningful way. I guess advertisers are pretty good at making us eat stuff that's not good for us and buy stuff we don't need. And politicians are sometimes good at whipping us up into a frenzy in which we do things that aren't in our own best interests. But if you want evidence that the technology just isn't there to control people's minds, you only have to look at this forum. One person takes a certain med and swears it's given him his life back. The next person says the same drug put him through a hellish nightmare. We're all so different. How can we be controlled so easily?

Then who is doing this mind control thing? Is it a group? How large a group? How do they come to any concensus? In my experience if there are more than 3 people in a group, they'll have trouble deciding where to go to lunch - let alone formulating a coherent plan for world domination.

I think the DSM is flawed. I think there's too much politics and money in it - and woefully little science. I think the drug companies have too much influence, and they're making tons of money by medicalizing human distress. And I think that it serves as an instrument of social control to the extent that it lets us off the hook from correcting injustices. Mental distress is associated with poverty and social rejection. I honestly wonder how much of mental illness could be cured if we'd all just be kind to one another and treat one another with fairness, justice, and equity.