[New-Poetry] conspiracies

[David Bircumshaw]

Judy

I picked on the piece as a fascinating piece of craziness. That there 
has been a long and dubious association between the Secret Services and 
a succession of British writers and intellectuals is though a matter of 
known record, the writer makes the mistake of assuming that there's a 
coherent, systematic policy behind it.

> Hmmmm.....
>
> I just read the interminable site Birk URL'ed---the equivalent of 
> listening to USA's post-midnight AM talk radio that's loaded with 
> obsessed-about-conspiracies dudes.  The topics often are crop circles, 
> aliens from outerspace landing at Roslyn Air Force Base, and the 
> Rockefellers and Rothschilds at the centre of the intrigues.
>
> Re the intellectuals vilified in this piece and some others not 
> skewered in it, it's fascinating as well as profoundly negativing to 
> get biog-data on them.  Many of them, as foggy-thinking as any other 
> folks on drugs, manage to take over impressive hunks of our cultures 
> and wrestle them to the ground with impunity.  It's a mistake to think 
> that intellectuals, like actors, are good to follow.  Some 
> intellectuals have the ear of wealthy folk, if they're not themselves 
> wealthy; hence, they're in the catbird seat to set up the artists and 
> lifestyles they favour.  As with many conspiracy theorists' spun 
> rationality, then, there is a bit of logical reasoning in this 
> theorist's conclusions.  On balance, though, I think, these amazing 
> and energetic little manifestoes are a fascinating art form if you 
> haven't been exposed to them much.  After that, well, it'll feel 
> natural to turn off the radio, smile, and go to sleep.  However, it 
> would be well to pick out the pieces of this theorist's argument that 
> "resonate".  Few folks are entirely nutty, as you know from knowing 
> yourself and your own family members and friends.  Locking out all of 
> their fervent theses might be shortsighted.
>
> Judy
>
> 2008/8/7 Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it 
> <mailto:anny.ballardini at tin.it>>
>
>     David Bircumshaw forwarded the following link to another list, I
>     just scrolled it quickly but what I read seems quite interesting:
>     http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/aquarian.htm
>      
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