The word government means "govern", or to control, and "ment" which means mind. It is, in fact, a form of mind control.
Look, if you are going to make up things, at least use things that don't insult your readers' intelligence and that can't be trivially debunked by anyone with the most basic understanding of etymology.
From wiktionary:
-ment : Used to form nouns from verbs, the nouns having the sense of "the action or result of what is denoted by the verb".
And before you start saying that the dictionary definition was made up to hide occult symbolism in plain sight, the nominalization of verbs using the suffix -mentum comes from Latin, some 2000+ years ago at a time where I really doubt that the Rothschilds grand grand grand ancestors were already conspiring. That "mentum" comes from mens/mentis that means "the mind" is a nice historical anecdote, but is irrelevant since "-ment" isn't used in that sense when used to nominalize a verb. And even if you really wanted to literally interpret things in disregard of their historical usage and semantics, you'd end up with "the mind of governing" and not "governing the mind" due to right-to-left precedence in the formation of compound words, exactly in the same way as "biology" means "the study of life" and not "a life of study"...
If anything, this blunder shows that you are not above relaying baseless nonsense when it supports your views and readers should be reminded to apply a healthy amount of skepticism when getting "information" from the Internet.
@anarchony and @full-steem-ahead: I'm not at all saying that governments are not effectively doing large scale mind control of their populations, or that the concept of government itself isn't surrender of free will to perceived authority. What I'm saying is that this implied meaning, if conveyed at all in the word "government" would be entirely conveyed by "govern" (which does imply domination) and not at all by "-ment" which is just a nominalization suffix. It should be obvious when looking at every other words in "-ment" like "achievement" or "basement" or "debasement" or "movement" which don't even remotely involve the concept of "mind".
Here Mark Passio elaborates a bit on why the english suffix ment etymologically comes from mind:
Ment definitely means mind, in every word it is used.
But besides the etymological meaning, government objectively IS mind control.
Interesting etymological analysis. You sound like you're well educated in literature, could that be the problem?
Jan Irvin and Joe Atwill, highly respected researchers, both agree on the "Mind Control" meaning of government, but without doing it myself or seeing the raw research of either of you on this topic it's hard to say which of you espouses the actual truth.
That's irrelevant however, b/c what government does is mind control. Ever heard of MK-Ultra? What about the lies children are taught in public schools, or the propaganda on mainstream media? You can argue all day about the etymology, but in practice and in general government manipulates information to control the hearts and minds of their populace. How else could they maximize their power and influence? Government is a religion and it's chief priests like to keep you in the dark b/c knowledge is power and they never want to give that up.