Posted in R D Laing, myth, paranoia on Jun 8th, 2009
This post is part of a series. Please start reading at ‘Stage & Screen 1′ below.
Laing’s radical psychology provides a means of reclaiming the narrator of the ’surveillance theatre’ document (see ‘Stage & Screen 1′ below) from the dank cul de sac that is the terminus for the barking nutjob. Clearly the narrator is [...]
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Posted in CERN, Meredith Kercher, myth on Jul 12th, 2008
In the newspaper it says ‘Three charged with Kercher killing’. The headline refers, of course, to the three suspects whose odd accounts of their activities at the time of British student Meredith Kercher’s death will shortly be assessed by an Italian judge, who may require them to stand trial. For legal reasons, I expect, the [...]
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Posted in Roswell, UFOs, myth on Sep 21st, 2007
Some years ago GQ magazine sent me to Area 51 in Nevada and Roswell in New Mexico to check out the UFO thing. I was driving my saloon along a very long road in NM when I saw a sign with the legend “Roswell Crash Site: Tours”. I backed up and was able to join [...]
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While Paris was in jail she told Barbara Walters, in a phone call, that ‘I have become more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.’ While this may not prove to be an enduring conversion, the avowal does efficiently illustrate how very few options there are in the American personalityscape. If, for example, an [...]
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