My God, what's happening to me....? I'm on Agitprop and duendy's side!
Well, not entirely. My answer to Agitprop about scientific study is that if conventional science is unable to approach a particular problem, then no credibility can be attached to any other method supposed to provide an answer. And Why? Because the definition of
science is pretty much "that process of investigation, the results upon which
reasonable people agree". And the processes of science are designed in such a way that reasonable people have little alternative but to agree upon the result and the confirmation or denial of the hypothesis. But if you want to go outside "conventional science", then there can be no useful result, because not everybody could possibly agree as to the hypothesis. Say, for example, that your method is to put yourself in a trance and communicate telepathically with the putative aliens. Since I am not in the position of being able to verify that that is what is happening, I can state my own hypothesis about what is happening, namely that you have closed your eyes and are making stuff up. You can't deny my hypothesis, and I can't deny your hypothesis. You talk about the "limitations of science", but this inability to provide a single agreed hypothesis is the
supreme limitation to
non-scientific exploration, and the real reason that science reigns supreme as the only viable way to study the Universe.
As to MKULTRA, it seems to me to document a very real attempt by former administrations to investigate different ways in which people could be controlled. I'm sure its originally totally innocent and justifiable motivation was to use against enemy agents, but there can be no doubt whatsoever that eventually some kind of general population control would have resulted (not, I believe, politically biassed control, ie to keep the Republicans in power for example, but more insidiously just to maintain the power of the Executive). As it turns out, however, with the huge advances in media technology and the vast accumulation of knowledge of public relations (at which America is the
sine qua non expert), use of hypnotic, mesmeric or overtly chemical means are actually far less effective than routine media spin and advertising design.
The collective unconscious is screaming with pain.
The unconscious (or indeed conscious) of both you and I may well be screaming with pain at this, Agitprop - but the evidence seems to suggest that the vast majority prefer the hive mind, and who's to say they're wrong? The extermination of original thought and genuine creativity proceeds apace, and indeed this does make me scream with pain. But if that were true of what you call "the collective unconscious", then it wouldn't work - the endlessly repetitive junk that passes for art and entertainment would not be as popular as it evidently is!