We already implement digital-neural mind control to spectacular success. The ever-increasing drones that engage in online, casino, and unlicensed gambling represent the demographic natuarlly inclined towards living in digital/virtual prison. We also have those who prefer chemical prison in the form of licensed and unlicensed drugs. But the advent of "social media" demonstrates that by merely providing virtual ticks of "popularity," we can corral the sheep towards any direction we determine.

During a more elegant time, we used control mental asylums with similar methods. We cordoned off a section in their mess hall for "previleged" members - ie those who most "cooperated" with the staff. Each week, the patients would be scored based on their behavior conformity to the demands of the staff. The whole thing was arbitrary, but it was amusing to observe these patients, even the voluntaries, climbing over each other, informing misbehaviors of others, to receive their "previleges points."

Now, those in power rely increasingly on obtuse baubles for control, a clear indication of the degeneracy of intellect, imagination, and aptitude even amongst the so-called "elites." The herd mentality of untrained humans provide a tempting rationale for those in high corridors of government to label their subjects as brainless muck. It is increasingly necessary for those in power to possess the virtues, particularly of humility, especially in these inelegant times