I think it's good question why one would need "paranormal" mind control, if mind control itself is pretty much undeniable fact. Of course matter what you consider "mind control" and what is merely attempt to lure, suggest and offer as possibility.
The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making.In quite recent issue of one Finnish science magazine I was reading was a story of this old study:
Asch Solomon: Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgements (1952) ja Opinions and social pressure (1966).
Group of people being studied, asked which of the 3 lines is the same as the line on the left. Within group is people who has job to give false answer. And because so many people appear to give same answer, out of actually observed people, 33% starts to agree. Even if it is obvious that answer is wrong, some of them start to actually believe this is right, and for vast majority conformity simply overrides the necessity of "being right". Some of them believe the group of people had "more information" that they do, so they rather believed group opinion than their own sight. Some just wanted to fit in.
Same test has been done later on, with other kinds of results. It depends on a lot on age and social background.
Still, question would be, can large scale society operate without mind control? And what then, when you simply don't believe anymore on things like parliamentary democratic politics? And don't see it like that and don't want to conform, even when it's presented as only existing form of functional government and only platform of politics.
