One Sucker's Saga, Part VII: Bugs in the System

[peristaltor]

I once heard from one author speculating on the subject that the anthrax letters were mailed by the 9/11 hijackers themselves as a kind of farewell and fuck you to the system they were attacking. That seemed reasonable. Without thinking too much about the recipients and circumstances under which they were received (as I discussed in the last Saga

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[rialian]

===It does get rather disturbing when "conspiracy theories" start getting more and more "food for thought"-ish....(chuckles) Conspiracy? Coincidence? Synchronicity? Manifestations of an underlying current?

===(As a side note...if you have not read, this is an interesting book that discusses conspiracy theory as a path of spiritual development (amongst other things): The Lucid View: Investigations In Occultism, Ufology, And Paranoid Awareness )

[peristaltor]

Thanks, but no thanks. From the reader reviews on the book:

. . . (the book seems) less interested in questioning (or proving) the veracity of occult/ufo/conspiracy beliefs than in whence they come and why, what they say about the collective consciousness of humanity in these current times of insecurity and paranoia.

Spirituality-wise, I'm more in line with Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things analysis. That's just me.