But if they had that much control, then we could not speculate about their powers of control.
Your very post disproves this aspect.
Nope. It's a lot easier to fuck up someone's future ability to learn a scientific discipline while they are young, then it is to keep a brilliant young mind from eventually discovering some truths about reality.
Fucking with someones ability to do science is easy- just pressure them at certain points in their life so that they feel like they are not good at whatever it is- don't be overt about it, but instead push the feeling of inability to understand a subject upon the person. It's not like you need to do this a lot with a kid- a kid will succumb to these pressures much quicker than an adult. Kid discouraged? Well, if you do it right, the kid will think "I am naturally bad at math" or "I am good at biology, but I just don't get physics because of the math".
And you'll have a life long success story (well, the kid will move away from physics). What if any non-psychic intelligent kid starts taking physics classes in college? Start applying pressure again. Send a charismatic individual to mess with their education. Apply various pressures to make them lose interest in physics again.
You only need to plant the seed of doubt in someone in order to make them skeptical of psychic powers. You obfuscate the truth about psychic power with very simple manipulations- throw psychic activity in with all the religious "miracles" that the skeptical portion of the populace will
never believe in (or if they do believe, they are easier to manipulate anyway, so that's a keeper).
Build an affinity for the skeptical portion of the population for "science", especially physics. Only allow true psychics, who are willing to exploit the underclasses, into the higher echelons of physical understanding.
Encourage animosity in the skeptical portion of the populace for centralized authorities that pronounce "God says this, God says that". Have certain individuals make religious claims against the evidence that physicists provide in order to cause the skeptical class to side more and more with the physical teachings you allow the populace access to.
This will cause the skeptics to more firmly side with the physicists. Encourage various other bullshit claims about the nature of reality to push skeptics even further into belief in certain theories, which allow them to be manipulated in different ways than believers can be manipulated.
It's pretty simple, if you have a large enough section of the populace that is docile and under your control (Jesus is with you), you don't really have to worry about the outliers (such as you or I). In fact, if you have a built in story about the ultimate fate of the outliers, in which all of them are rounded up and killed, you pretty much cement your authority over the docile portion of the population when you finally do round up and kill the outliers. You just let the outliers live alongside the subjugated portion of the populace until such a time as you are ready to kill the outliers (when they have outlived their usefulness, or they really start cutting into your harvest of the docile portion of the populace).
Especially if the outliers are stupid enough to be condescending assholes about the beliefs of the portion of the population that is docile to the psychic overlords. You just need a built in story that says "the outliers were made to be destroyed, it was selected beforehand, do not worry, all is in the hands of your lord!"
They cannot have sufficient control to prevent ALL inquiries into psychic-related science, but insufficient control such that they need these thoughts to have an 'outlet.'
All inquiries? They've already convinced you, even though you aren't a physicist. You can't make inquiries into whether or not physical laws allow psychic activity or not. You know what you've been taught, and that is it.
In fact, by lumping psychic activity in with all the religious mumbo jumbo and lies, they have effectively pulled the greatest scam job on skeptics and atheists in the history of the universe. You guys will be docile citizens til the day you die, because you will never believe that you were manipulated into the positions you are in today by a psychic overclass.
I can. You can check off a lot of the sciences. Not like all branches of science would point towards psychic phenomena.
No, but they do teach people how to use the scientific method and perform their own experiments, even if they're not in the appropriate discipline and won't be published.
What? You're a smart guy. Can you think of one experiment, that a non psychic could run, that would confirm psychic activity?
What if, God forbid, there is a system in place, in which those in control of the scientific equipment can control who gets access to it. Perhaps sometimes it seems like someone with greater qualifications gets passed over....
And as with all conspiracy theories: How is it that you know enough to reveal it, but not enough to get your brain perforated?
At this point, it doesn't matter. It's not like there are a large number of individuals reading what either of us write. The communication channels are pretty narrow.
In addition, there is enough obfuscation of the truth to bury psychic activity under claims of Woo or psychosis (assuming you've a skeptical view of things); and sorcery, witchcraft, satanism, demonic possession, or God (assuming you're a creationist, or something similar).
And, as someone who would have written off any claim of psychic activity as "conspiracy theories" and/or "woo ass bullshit" when I was a teenager, I find it easy to picture others not knowing what is going on.
