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Let us suppose that A is a multiple individual, a crowd with uniform reactions. B is a prophet, the founder of a religion, or a political leader, who, using magic techniques of persuasion, subjugates A.…
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Bruno is the first to exploit the concept of magic to its ultimate conclusions, envisaging this “science” as an infallible psychological instrument for manipulating the masses as well as the individual human being. Awareness of…
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Fabricated through the process of colonizing terrains of truth previously held by religion, science in the West used claims of skepticism to distinguish its approach to the real. Some scientists today collapse the distinction between…
In an influential essay from the mid-sixties, Richard Hofstadter tries to capture the essence of conspiracy and the “paranoid style” as they have appeared in American politics. I want to stress two of the characteristics…
Попытки SJW и ихъ предшественниковъ_цъ закрѣпить отрицательную коннотацію за словами “сегрегація”, “дискриминація”, “репрессіи”, “колонизація”, “іерархія” и такъ далѣе, апеллирующія къ сконструированному опредѣленнымъ изводомъ неомарксистской (?) идеологіи историко-миѳологическому графу и, очевидно, призванныя съэкономить риторическую энергію, потребную…
Perhaps the Roswell anniversary occupies that site in the popular culture of American democracy that can’t be occupied by the anniversary of the CIA. Like Roswell, the Central Intelligence Agency pinpoints its origins to July…
Some folks have responded to the rise of the virtual with irresponsible paranoia. That is to say, they fail to deal with contemporary indeterminacies and instead repetitively, compulsively, reassert their particular “truth.” Thus, some —…
Similarly, an appendix to the 1968 symposium hearings on UFOs provided a scientific method for assessing the reliability of the perceptions of those who claimed to have seen a UFO. Included as an example of…
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The disruptive effects of UFOs were recognized at the time. In a letter to the chair of the House Armed Services Committee written in 1966, Representative Gerald Ford criticizes the Air Force’s dismissal of a…
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The result of the hearings was a recommendation for an independent scientific investigation of the Air Force’s work on Project Blue Book. After several universities (including Harvard, MIT, and Cal Tech) declined the project, the…