Red Pilling En Masse: mainstreaming conspiracy theory discourse

You're now free to discuss MK Ultra in respectable company, but what difference does it really make?

Over the last two years, Britney Spears has made a name for posting videos of herself doing rather peculiar things on her Instagram page, often accompanied by dragged out, incoherent captions. It used to be commonplace to write off such spectacles with a mere “poor Britney is off her meds,” accompanied by impassioned pleas to spread #mentalhealthawareness and to condemn the paparazzi and industry handlers for their lack of respect for celebrities’ dignity.

But nowadays (whether we explicitly state it or not), we all know that the reality is much more complex than our simplistic narratives of yore used to tell us. We all know that while the #FreeBritney campaign may have emancipated her from her enslavement on paper, she remains very much what she’s been all along: an MK Ultra slave.

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Now, I know most “respectable” people will balk at such an assertion. Conspiracy theories about hidden elites controlling the masses through mind controlled public figures is the stuff of “schizos” living in their mothers’ basements wearing tin foil hats. But admit it, part of you wants to concede that there’s truth—at least in a cosmic sense—to the claim. Try to deny it, but the vibe is incontrovertibly shifting.