MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

For years Max would call and ask, “Hey mate, what do you reckon about ___?” This is that conversation, turned into a show. First episode: mind control and influence operations, with a hard look at MKUltra.

We walk through history from the priest classes and their drug and sex rituals, war as the original mass psychological operation, Operation Paperclip and the Cold War labs, Sidney Gottlieb, Operation Midnight Climax in New York and San Francisco, Ewan Cameron, Jolly West in the Haight, the moment LSD left the building, Manson and the communes, then the quieter tools that followed: pharmaceuticals, screens, surveillance, COVID-era mass formation. We flag what is documented and what is speculation. We close on how you push back: escape dialectics, Occam’s Razor, question with boldness like Jefferson, and John Lisle’s eleven questions. MK Ultra, answered with MK Ungovernable.

What they cover

Ancient roots: Plato’s Cave, priests, cults, ritual drugs, warModern U.S. programs: Bluebird, Artichoke, MKUltra, Gottlieb, Church CommitteeSan Francisco: Midnight Climax, Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, West’s crash pad, MansonFrom the 1980s to now: corporate influence, pharma, social media, mass formationHow to stay ungovernable

Books they read for this one

Stephen Kinzer - Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind ControlJohn Lisle - Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRATom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Music

The Exploited – Sex and ViolenceSlim Galliard Trio – Cement Mixer Pu-ti-put-tiJack Kerouac – October in the Railroad Earth (with Steve Allen)Kraftwerk – Computer WorldMarilyn Manson – Rock is DeadThe Beach Boys – Never Learn Not to Love

Got a stone you want turned over?

History, intrigue, health, collapse, spirituality, the weird and the unexplained — send topic ideas. X: [@UngovernableMax] and [@prevhashnonce]. Nostr: ungovernablemisfits@nostrplebs.com and meshtadel@nostrplebs.com.

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