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Doctor of Disorientation Studies, UnseenUniversity
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This isn't about any one conspiracy per se; it's a digression into an interesting book I picked up by one Robert Anton Wilson, pretty much an overview of what he considered were the most prevalent, or at least interesting, conspiracy theories doing the rounds at the time of writing, 1999. Everything is Under Control is a pretty good read. As part of his research, he got a co-researcher called Miriam Joan Hill to open a website for people to post their favourite conspiracy theories, on the off-chance new ones would come up that he hadn't heard of.
This one emerged:
"...the government is trying to introduce aliens into our society, gradually... I think they will choose somebody who is famous and in the public eye and it will not really alarm anybody when he reveals the truth... Anyway, if you think about it, Michael Jackson is gradually turning into his alien form. His skin is lightening, his nose is shrinking, and his eyes will begin to get larger soon." (this was in 1998-99)
This is Robert Anton Wilson, the man who coined the phrases "Convictions make convicts" and "Reality is what you can get away with".
Later in the book there is a tantalising snippet in the discussion concerning Jack The Ripper and conspiracy theories therein. R.A. Wilson reveals he was in correspondence with "English author and criminologist Colin Wilson." (who was a bit more dogmatic in his assumptions and appeared to believe "everything mysterious or seemingly inexplicable always resolves as an Outsider using Faculty X").
Now - the two Wilsons in correspondence. That would have been a wall to be a fly upon! (must be in the papers left behind by both deceased authors?)
And Fortean Times gets an entry, too. Not as part of any conspiracy theory - but as a reporter of them, a place for "thinking about the unthinkable".
This one emerged:
"...the government is trying to introduce aliens into our society, gradually... I think they will choose somebody who is famous and in the public eye and it will not really alarm anybody when he reveals the truth... Anyway, if you think about it, Michael Jackson is gradually turning into his alien form. His skin is lightening, his nose is shrinking, and his eyes will begin to get larger soon." (this was in 1998-99)
This is Robert Anton Wilson, the man who coined the phrases "Convictions make convicts" and "Reality is what you can get away with".
Later in the book there is a tantalising snippet in the discussion concerning Jack The Ripper and conspiracy theories therein. R.A. Wilson reveals he was in correspondence with "English author and criminologist Colin Wilson." (who was a bit more dogmatic in his assumptions and appeared to believe "everything mysterious or seemingly inexplicable always resolves as an Outsider using Faculty X").
Now - the two Wilsons in correspondence. That would have been a wall to be a fly upon! (must be in the papers left behind by both deceased authors?)
And Fortean Times gets an entry, too. Not as part of any conspiracy theory - but as a reporter of them, a place for "thinking about the unthinkable".