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The Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay5/13/2023 For many schizophrenics, however, the paranoia that an external force such as a machine really is controlling their mind constitutes a hallmark of isolation from consensus reality, and the case notes of contemporary clinical psychiatry hum with the brainwashingīeams of covert radio transmitters, surveillance systems and microchip devices. For those of us outside the crackpot fringes of conspiracy subculture, there's only a tang of uncertainty. Those movies, websites, television series or novels that most successfully employ this cliché do so by exploiting the friction between our dismissive assurance on the one hand that it's probably only a fiction, and a latent anxiety on the other that some evil agent just might have the technology to scramble our thoughts without our consent. Nowadays it doesn't take a nutter to entertain the notion that governments or aliens may be manipulating our minds.
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