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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch of their own leaflets on US troops, designed to be psychologically devastating. They read, 'Your wives are back at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified."
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
Guy fell silent again. And then he said-and his voice sounded sorrowful and distressed-"Last week I killed my hamster." "Just by staring at it?" I asked. "Yes," confirmed Guy.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
He interviewed thousands of American infantrymen and concluded that only 15–20 per cent of them had actually shot to kill. The rest had fired high or not fired at all, busying themselves however else they could. And 98 per cent of the soldiers who did shoot to kill were later found to have been deeply traumatized by their actions. The other 2 per cent were diagnosed as 'aggressive psychopathic personalities', who basically didn't mind killing people under any circumstances, at home or abroad. The conclusion – in the words of Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman of the Killology Research Group – was 'there is something about continuous, inescapable combat which will drive 98 per cent of all men insane, and the other 2 per cent were crazy when they got there'.}
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
Learning how to walk through walls was an ambitious but inexpensive enterprise.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jim returned from his journey in 1979 and wrote a confidential paper for his superiors. The first line read, "The U.S. army doesn't really have any serious alternative than to be wonderful." A disclaimer at the bottom read, "{This} does not comprise an official position by the military as of now." This was Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion Operations Manual.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can.'Then he phoned Special Forces.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
Remember that the crazy people are not always to be found on the outside. Sometimes the crazy people are deeply embedded on the inside. Not even the most imaginative conspiracy theorist has ever thought to invent a scenario in which a crack team of Special Forces soldiers and major generals secretly try to walk through their walls and stare goats to death.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.Imagine the emergence of a new meta-culture.Imagine all kinds of people everywheregetting committed to human excellence,getting committed to closing the gapbetween the human conditionand the human potential...And imagine all of us hooked upwith a common high tech communications system.That's a vision that brings tears to the eyes.Human excellence is an idealthat we can embedinto every formal human structureon our planet.And that's really why we're going to do this.And that's also whyThe Meta Network is a creationwe can love.Notwithstanding Colonel Burns's failure to foresee that people would use the Internet mostly to access porn and look themselves up on Google, his prescience was admirable.
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Jon Ronson _ The Men Who Stare at Goats
What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.
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