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Josh November 30, 2016 at 6:29 pm.
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JoshPerkins – New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man was really good too. I finished that 1 and returned it. Devil’s Chessboard I haven’t gone through yet, but saw it was a great resource and bought the Kindle version (electronic source is quicker to work with, while public library is free…)
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JoshSchool of the Americas led me to other good references. The author’s research was a set of unusual staged interviews with SOA smoothies and time at SOA school. So he organized the book around that. The anthropology of the school around his time of visit wasn’t too relevant to me, but the associated references were.
My experience with my current book, Voodoo Histories by Aaronovitch, a big critic of conspiracy theory, winds up being somewhat parallel. The topics he brings up and the references end up be paradoxically useful, not infrequently to support a point somewhat opposite to his emphasis. This work process of sweeping through books in interesting, related areas and picking up things on the side is useful. Not something to continue forever, but it is helping…an odd mixture of discipline, structure, and randomness. The focus on the “conspiracism theory” debate is useful too.
Q: What is the difference between “conspiracy” and “the results of hidden, non-authorized agendas working in synergy”. For some people those are almost the same thing, and for others, they are different like night and day. Explaining the difference and how the latter comes about without the former is very relevant too.
Apart from my book reading, I watched part of another Episode of the Netflix Truth & Power series while readying lunch – this one on the story of Stingray surveillance and Daniel Rigmaiden’s discovery of that. This turned out to be a good chapter for my theme. “How did you learn about this widespread Stingray practice of FBI and local law enforcement? From your legislature? No. From reporters investigating? No. From inside whistleblowers? No. You found out from a smart guy in prison who was trying to figure out how he got caught and see whether there were some civil rights violations to help his defense. He used his rights as an accused to acquire the info and put it together.” Society and it’s theory of “I would have heard” should be able to see they’ve got a problem when that is the mechanism by which they come to learn of such things.
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