Here you go, frens.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/17/714289322/scientists-restore-some-function-in-the-brains-of-dead-pigs
I would suggest it may even be easier to brainwash in a "free" society than a totalitarian one.
Give me enough rope, and I'll be tempted to hang myself.
I'm not sure if I'd even rate a new rope.
(but I'm a bit rough on myself)