You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough

[Austin Kelley]

In his documentary, "You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough", gifted film-maker Adam Curtis argues that mind control programmes such as MK-ULTRA ultimately proved unsuccessful.

As a result, Curtis' film argues, the military-industrial complex abandoned its dream of directly controlling the individual mind. Instead, it turned to ever more sophisticated forms of mass propaganda - such as the manipulation of the historical record and the shaping of contemporary reality as presented through network television news & current affairs.

Curtis' argument probably represents the consensus amongst those few academic historians who are interested in MK-ULTRA and its legacy. I believe that consensus to be wrong.

I agree. This is similar to my beef with Acid Dreams, which while it does contain useful information, ends up portraying MKULTRA as too much of a failed experiment, and one based on psychedelics which somehow escaped.

Techniques for controlling the behavior of the individual have by no means failed, and neither are they mere historical artifacts. MKULTRA is alive and well.

We have to be able to promote awareness of this fact without also dipping into every poisoned well of information- and there are many out there...


ON EDIT: I searched for a thread including the name of the film before starting this one- somehow nothing else came up. My apologies for diffusing thread focus!