That’s interesting. So it’s not like straight-up mind control, like programming a sleeper agent’s conscious mind to shut off when given a command word, or brainwashing to think they’re following orders of their own free choice. More like they do what they’re told reflexively because they have something like a panic attack if they don’t, right?
Of course, all of the above are terrifying in different ways.
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16-Under the Rain
A little complementary content for this episode.
The conditioning process is only getting a suffient explanation for me in the story, but for those who want a more in depth understanding, here’s a piece for the wiki for you 😉