Wednesday Talk Radio on 08/28/19

Very much appreciate the lucidity of today's discussion on the slippery subject of a newly published book on the Manson Family murders and possible ties to well-documented aspects of U.S. government research that warrants continuing independent research and deepening of public knowledge and serious discourse. Such serious discussion should not be confined to university programs that feature courses on comparative mind control and the history of cults, like the U.C.-Berkeley interdisciplinary that for decades featured such pioneers in the social psychological field as Richard Ofshe and Margaret Singer.

Paul (and Heather and listeners who called in and those that didn't but have been reading and studying up on their own) could you please post links to the previews if not reviews of the O'Neill book that sent you down this rabbit hole. In searching online after your Wednesday Morning Chat and brief top of the hour at 9:00 AM continuation while awaiting the RADIO ACTIVIST host-producer's appearance, I found some articles on Tom O'Neill's long struggle over decades and book contracts and self-doubt regarding the sacrifice of his own professional credibility if he overstated any case for any unified theory of conspiratorial connection to the Deep State programs of the Manson Family times a la MK ULTRA and COINTELPRO.

Of course, the first serious journalistic deep dive into the culture of the Manson Family came from the FUGS co-founder turned muckraking journalist into the dark side of the Summer of Love counter culture, Ed Sanders. That Sanders 1971 book would later have to excise authorial and source speculation on causative links between the early Church of Scientology and the Process Church before being reprinted to meet continuing popular, scholarly and journalistic demand is plenty shadey in itself and illustrates some of the Political Economy of a corporate-captured news media in the U.S. with not even one national broadcaster of public affairs committed to a Public Interest chartered mission and insulated from Private Interest and profit-maximizing commitments that have so dumbed down our body politic. Hitchens was so on target when he'd note at his indie bookstore appearances that the "Principle of Concision" (for maximizing viewership and ratings to deliver most eyeballs and ears to the sponsors) can't help but lead to Sins of Omission and as we've now seen in our Symptom In Chief, sins of commission virtually hourly or as the dodo bird tweets...

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2602/a-conspiracy-laden-account-of-the-m...

https://www.lamag.com/longform/the-charlie-conspiracy/

Then for a broader academic overview of the subject of what pioneering sociologist Max Weber termed and essayed "THE ROUTINIZATION OF CHARISMA" there's this Pdf from Boston University:
https://www.bu.edu/anthrop/files/2011/09/charisma.pdf

Keep on doing!
Good to see KBOO's internal power struggles shaking out and some of the old crony networks yielding to new faces as steeped in public discovery and discussion of the under-reported public affairs issues of our locality and larger world. Cheers to those who've borne much blame and scorn for at long last forcing this issue and I hope all involved in KBOO's direction and well-being continue to delve into accountability issues and the tracking of complicity.

Appreciatively yours,
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters & Shifters
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