Anyway touching back on this as I have the time. So what do lab rat experiments accomplish, my good chap? Memory study, variations on learning, conditioned control, and things like knowing what you don't know (I cant remember that word for it
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Is this only about understanding the rat? No it's about understanding the broader biological complexities in all living organisms, predominantly human understanding. That and acquiring grants for making money heh.
This is simply a tool used in psychology to gain further understanding into human response to stimulation of the brain. As I linked, it is most certainly used in game development, has been for years. Not purely based on racing rats through a maze, but an important study into gaining the understanding of control as part of the whole of psychology or it's study thereof.
Of course it's used in politics. It's a huge industry to be involved in, along with all of it's grant money to be had from the victors. The study of conditioned response, to what to say and how to say it. Also how to develop campaigns that appeal to you so to lure you to the cheese.
Far from stopping there, your mass media and education system is hemorrhaging it, from movies, to music, to your modern grade-school studies and universities often emphasizing group think. You are conditioned for a response to follow a certain ideology so for certain people/groups to gain power over you and by others opinions in line with those people/groups ideology. And not just you, but everyone else around you by your conditioned response in voting etc. They don't need to brainwash all of them, just enough to get the intended outcome, then the rest will be forced to fall in line... or so they think.
Not sure what to think? Go to social media and participate in group think! You are conditioned to feel safe by achieving a group consensus and not deviating from that safe place. If something or someone conflicts with that sense of well being that you acquire from group think participation, it's full retard time, a defense by your blind faith in your system of conditioned thought control. This is a scary place to be indeed! Circuits frying, smoke rising from your polished metal dome, it can all be embarrassing for certain, your group think peers might be alarmed.
Some are cured of it though, it happens. Some wake up from their dream state as the conflicting input of contradicting information starts to overload at the core. Some wake up while others just go bat shit crazy; it's too much for some, especially after a realization of life long deception that they have invested into, it can be too much for some. While some are just beyond hope, wholly given over with no way back.