"Electronic lobotomies continue apace. The subject pool has expanded from a few dozen people to a couple of billion. The driving messages have become more sophisticated: cryptic, alluring, alarming. They are no longer called implants. They are called ads."

So says Bruce Grierson, of The Media Foundation, quoted in Jennifer Berdock's "Counter-Advertising and Its Effects on Cyber-Media." For more on the history and fruit of the CIA's MK-ULTRA and propaganda/psychology research, twitch on over to Berdock