The wonders of the
post industrial age were the real cause for the erosion of
freedom and privacy. The creation of new weapons of terrible
proportions created a nuclear medusa complex; all who
looked upon the bomb were turned to stone by their fear.
The growth of the "soft" social sciences made possible an
invisible totalitarianism. These "humanist" sciences became
new tools for studying and labeling individual behavior.
They came to be applied to create boundaries of conformity.
Further, the desire for conformity created the need for
the surveillance of individual behavior.
The growth of government and the creation of large industry
inevitably gave birth to bureaucracy. Bureaucracy
with the aid and encouragement of the educational establishment
created files, and cryptocracy created super secret
psychological files. With advancements in electronic technology—
increasingly sophisticated microphones, transmitters,
and surveillance devices—the erosion of privacy becomes
a mudslide.
Although the most often invoked justification for secrecy
is to keep technology from falling into enemy hands, history
has shown that secrecy is, at best, only a delay to
public access. Since modern technologies have been developed
from a pool of common scientific knowledge, they
cannot be kept secret for long. Eventually, all the fruits of
the empirical pool slip from specific control and find their
way into general use as independent discoveries take place.
Mind control, as it exists today, will certainly become
available within twenty years to anyone who desires it and
can afford it.
Equally to blame with the cryptocracy for the development
of mind control are the psycho-sciences. Here are educated
men and women who have spent many hours in
study, preparing (supposedly) for years of service to their
fellow men. They have high standing in the society and are
well paid. They are the priests of a new religion.

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