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Guy Wilson's avatar

I preordered your book and just finished it at lunch today. It is absolutely fascinating and eye opening. You have given us a great corrective for the narrow view that focuses almost entirely on MKUltra and then Timothy Leary. The connections you make, and the ones that seem implicit in the story, are enough to preoccupy the serious reader for some time. Bateson has been an intellectual hero since my undergraduate days. This fleshes out so much I did not know. I know this is one I will reread. Thank you for this book.

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anzabannanna's avatar

Since you seem into weird things: do you ever talk to people about Utopia? I do now and then and have found that everyone I mention it to, including people like humanists and advocates for positive change in general, seem to have a strange, innate aversion to it. The specific reactions vary (laughter, mocking, changing of the subject, story telling in general), but one thing is common: they won't discuss it seriously, almost like there is some sort of a block installed in every person's mind.

Perhaps I am imagining this, but I'm curious what your experience has been, or if you'd be willing to try running some experiments on people you know to see what happens.

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