Mkultra and similar projects weren't for nothing, and U.S. was hardly only government partaking in such studies. Think about it. The people running the world right now have the most advanced knowledge and strategies of psychological warfare ever known to humanity. They know roughly what percentage of the public will have X behavioral response to Y orchestrated experience and they can layer these moves and play them off of each other. Do you ever wonder how much psychological damage has been done to the vast majority of the population, deliberately.