Hi Ryan, yes I take your point that calling Silent Spring 'fiction'
when maybe the word fable might have been more appropriate was a
mistake.
I guess this usage followed without enough reflection on from work I
have been doing over the last few years around the idea of 'fiction
as method'
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Pls jump to the Guardian article if you're bored in advance!
This is indeed extremely serious indeed - but far from surprising. I have now
maintained for more than 30 yrs that intelligence services, wherever, are
largely if not totally out of control, form a state in the state (the core of
the