Government Funds Study on Using Video Games to Brainwash Teenagers

Big Government and academia are teaming up to introduce us to a brave new world in subliminal mind control via video games:

The National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $400,000 testing how to insert subliminal messages against cigarette smoking in video games played by teens.

The University of Connecticut received a grant for the study earlier this year that suggest teenagers are easier targets for anti-cigarette messaging when they are lost in video games.

According to the researchers,

“This model posits that, as gamers become psychologically immersed (or ‘transported’) into virtual reality, their tendency to resist persuasive messages they encounter in these worlds is disrupted,” the grant states. “The model further posits that such disruption will typically be strongest among individuals who are most likely to resist or reject ‘real-world’ interventions.”

Naturally they start with discouraging teens from smoking, which most people agree is a good idea. From there they can proceed to discouraging teens from thinking racist thoughts. The definition of “racist” has already been expanded to cover most anything leftists would like to eradicate.

In case anyone makes it past prime video-gaming years with any politically incorrect thoughts in their head, the same technology can no doubt be applied to everything we see on TV — assuming it isn’t already.

Hat tip: Liberty Daily.