The use of an array of tactics to baffle the perception in conflict is not new, nor is the strategy confined to the human species. Predators who exploit the perceptual deficiencies of prey are common in nature. As human hunters wear camouflage spread scents and simulate game calls to imitate prey animals, Paussid beetles forge chemical signals, blinding ant species they prey on to their presence among them in the nest.
A famous human organization employed similar tactics. Hasan ibn Sabah’s Assassins. Sabah reputedly learned the art and science of mind control from priests of the mysteries in Egypt, but whatever the source, Sabah’s Assassins used hypnotic induction, symbolism, stage magic and drugs create a belief system which delivered 100 % loyalty from adherents, and instant complete compliance with leader’s instructions even “suicide missions.”
 Nation states have great difficulty securing large numbers of people willing to die on command. Hasan al Sabah’s Assassins prospered for 300 years, spreading their agents throughout the middle east because they knew how to create thousands of loyal followers.
When, after 300 years, the Assassin’s luck ran out and their fortress at Alamut (in what is now Iran) was overrun, the Assassin’s leadership captured and executed by the Mongols. What happened to the thousands of faithful assassins scattered throughout the middle east?
The assassins did what companies do after a scandal or serious defeat, they changed the name of the organization and continued to practice extortion and blackmail of nation states which had prospered them for three hundred years.
 Just as the Arthur Anderson consulting firm changed itself to Accenture after being implicated in the Enron fraud, the Assassins reconstituted themselves under new leadership and rebranded, terrorized and blackmailed under a new name – the Ismailis.
The Assassins / Ismailis are known to have shared their tactics and technology with other groups such as the Knights Templar with whom they were allied  and who shared their antinomian beliefs.
Groups today employing the Assassin’s mind control tactics command close to 100% loyalty and instant compliance with leaders’ instructions. Many groups and organizations, religious sects, cults and intelligence agencies have acquired the assassin’s MK technology and have worked diligently to improve it.
The assassin’s tactics are often called “trauma-based” mind control because they employ physical or emotional trauma as an instructional aid.  Legacy or mainstream media uses unperceived images, subliminal and subsonic embeds, to deliver trauma inducing images/symbols and manipulate consumer perception and preferences with data concealed in both “advertising” and “entertainment” media content.
Human beings are highly suggestible, extremely imitative and profoundly irrational.
As professor Key put it, “What appears conscious, logical and reasonable has little persuasive significance.”