Do you have any proof of this? I am genuinely intrigued by that statement, and I would like to know more about it. Honestly, it sounds a little crazy to me. Like tinfoil hat crazy...
OK, let's start with the whole "tinfoil hat" thing...
It has been proven by researchers at MIT's advanced physics department that tinfoil hats actually AMPLIFY certain frequencies. And it just so happens that the frequencies it amplifies most are RESTRICTED by the FCC for use ONLY by the DOD and the intelligence community for use in microwave-based communications and spy satellites.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
So technically, if you DO wear tinfoil hats because you're afraid of the "mind control rays" from government satellites, the tinfoil will actually make the signals STRONGER.
So let's dispel that little bit of slander as either REALLY bad research on the part of truely clinically paranoid people, or active disinformation planted in the "conspiracy community" by the government themselves...
Secondly, if you aren't aware that there has been a scientific, active program of PR-based socio-political manipulation for the better part of the last century in the US, the UK, and most of the Western World, then you're just not reading the right books...
For example, let's look at the works of Carrol Quigley. He was a Harvard-educated Ph.D in History. HE taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Georgetown University at their "School of Foreign Service", where among other things, he was the academic mentor of Bill Clinton. While at Georgetown, Quigley was hired by the Council on Foreign Relations as their official "Historian", and tasked with cataloging and documenting their history in a more formal manner. In this research, he uncovered a rather interesting story, that ended up becoming a series of books documenting the century-long plans to completely overthrow Western Democracy, destroy the middle class, and return the Western World to what essentially amounts to Rule by Nobility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley
Read "
Tragedy and Hope", and "
The Anglo-American Empire" by Carroll Quigley. There is proof enough in those two books for almost every statement I've made on this topic...
And if a Ph.D. from Harvard and tenured professor from Georgetown isn't good enough for you, then look into the writings of Edward Bernays, the "father of Public Relations". Bernays was writing in the early 20th century, and among other things, he was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. His books "
Propaganda", and "
Crystallizing Public Opinion" are ESSENTIAL reading for anyone interested in how PR really works, and how governments, corporations, and NGOs can use advertising, "spin", and historical revisionism to mold public opinion and policy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Read these four books, and THEN come back and we'll talk about who's REALLY wearing the tinfoil hats...
Interesting stuff though with the tinfoil. I wonder what my 1sg would say if i came into work like that with a tinfoil hat in the shape of my beret?