Controlling the Human Mind: The Technologies of Political Control or Tools for Peak Performance
Dr Nick Begich
Anchorage, Alaska: Earthpulse Press, 2006, $18.00
ISBN 1-890693-54-5
The author may be familiar as the author of the book Angels Don’t Play With This HAARP, which I haven’t read but which had a substantial readership among those interested in ‘mind control’.
This book is terribly poorly produced. Lobster is a design-free zone but Begich’s book makes it look like a design masterpiece. Self-publication does not preclude getting line spacing right, adjusting the size of footnote numbers in the text so the line-spacing stays the same, proof-reading etc. This is a truly horrible, teeth-gritting reading experience, with a text which looks as though it had been set by someone with about two hours experience on an AppleMac. This, it might be argued, doesn’t matter; or shouldn’t. But it always does. For one thing, it diminishes the content. Willy-nilly one thinks: if the text layout was prepared with so little care, how careful was the author with the content? This is so bad I have merely skimmed it. It contains a great deal of very useful information, much of it recent, on the scientific background to, and known application of ‘mind control technology’. Some of the stories/sources I recognised; many I did not. But more than that I could not say. I would need to be paid to actually read this.