Stranger Things

You know, in the early 1980’s, we were reeling from a number of things.  Another, which is more or less specifically referenced, is the Church hearings, when we learned that most of our major Federal agencies had been, to greater and lesser extents, corrupted.  This included the FBI, the IRS, and most importantly, perhaps, the CIA.

They explicitly reference MK-Ultra in the series.  Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

I want to be clear: nobody denies that these programs existed.  Nobody says they did not torture, give drugs to, and otherwise abuse many people with the stated aim of breaking their minds.  All that is claimed is that the program stopped in the mid-seventies.

But why assume this to be true?  Can you imagine what they must be capable of now?  They can “drive” mice NOW through implanted electrodes.  And the Pentagon can’t–or won’t–account for at least 8 trillion dollars.

A trillion here and a trillion there, and the money–and capabilities–start to add up.  Our government is completely out of control.

Stranger Things is in fact based on an actual US military base, about which very odd allegations have been made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project 

Culturally, the relocation to the Midwest made sense, but they apparently considered keeping the name Montauk.

And I continue to wonder why Jeff Sessions–who in my mind I have taken to comparing to Elmer Fudd–remains in his job.  Most of what Trump was elected to do, Sessions is in charge of, and Sessions might as well have been hired by Hillary to take the wind out of everyone’s sails long enough to get Trump out of office.  His behavior would be indistinguishable from what it is now. He failed to block Mueller’s appointment, he won’t fire Rod Rosenstein, and a year and change into Trump’s Presidency he seems to have done jack shit about Hillary and the Clinton Foundation.

And can’t SOMEBODY be held accountable for losing a sum of money larger than the GDP of much of the rest of the world combined?  It is unbelievable.

People are in shock.  This is the explanation.  Rather, they were in shock 30 years ago, and have not healed or reconciled the cognitive dissonance we have been asked to live with, the trust we are supposed to have in our government, compared to its actual performance and history.

Edit: imagine if this money had been spent on human good, on mastering meditation, on documenting and making public psi experiments, on figuring out how to cultivate happiness and emotional well being, on documenting life after death.

Why is there so much evil?  It is an old question, but it is a perennial one.