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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: This one predicted practical telepathy
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:39:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 23:47:49 -0400, Ahasuerus wrote:

> On 4/9/2025 9:53 AM, Charles Packer wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:09:34 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>>> Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>>> https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v02n02_1929-
>>>> Spring_slpn/page/n103/mode/1up (or https://tinyurl.com/bp5dwkm4 )
>>>>
>>>> is my candidate for having predicted sending information to the human
>>>> brain remotely by radio waves if it ever comes to pass. The inventor
>>>> therein thinks through the issues of selectivity and of what kinds of
>>>> content could be meaningfully transmitted.
>>>
>>> I just read this story and find it foolish.  If this were actually
>>> possible, it would immediately be taken over by advertising people
>>> beaming spam thoughts into everyone's head.  The author is extremely
>>> optimistic about how such a technology would be used.
>> 
>> You read the whole thing? I confess I skimmed it looking for the "good
>> parts" -- the passages about the telepathy apparatus.
>> A story by a Russian came out about the same time
>> https://zapatopi.net/blog/?
>> post=201506038860.alexander_belyaevs_the_lord_of_the_world (or
>> https://tinyurl.com/bp52jj8p )
>> in which the telepathic device did indeed cause mayhem. The appearance
>> of these two stories at the same time and their sort of mirror image
>> outcomes I think may be significant. Stay tuned.
> 
> The "Analysis" section of the linked blog post
> (https://tinyurl.com/bp52jj8p) is rather peculiar:
> 
> The existence of psychotronic mind control has always been an open
> secret in Russian society, going as far back as Rasputin at least.
> 
> Unlike the West, where the aspirational concept of Individualism was,
> and is, used to distract people from their induced conformities, the
> Soviet faction of the New World Order tried a different approach: an
> explicit call for collective thought. As a result they felt less of a
> need than their Western Bloc rivals to suppress paranoid samizdat
> exposing the psychotronic means of collectivism. "Of course, Comrade
> Paranoidsky, psychotronics exists! Is not glorious that which helps the
> workers unite?"
> 
> Consequently, even as the word "psychotronic" is still rarely mentioned
> in the West outside of paranoid circles, in Russia there are public
> demonstrations against the technology and officials flagrantly show off
> mind-control pistols at trade shows. For Russians today, it isn't a
> question of whether psychotronics are real, it's a question of "should
> my apartment be a psychotronic gulag?"

I know, I know. I've been browsing this guy's extensive website,
wary that I'm being taken for a ride.