Telepathy, unfortunately,
turns out to not be all about elevated Apollonian abstract
intellectualism:
it's an emotion amplifier and taps into the most toxic wellsprings
of the
subconscious.
The XX equivalent of telepathy was loudspeakers and radio (not that
that was a century which we should have much wish to repeat). I have
a few references from American (but Goebbels is said to have given at
least one of their books a prominent place in his library as well)
propaganda men from the period if you all are interested, but be
warned that I've left off reading this stuff because (even though at
least two of the three are firmly convinced they are on the side of
tru... well, at least goodness and progress) I found it toxic in
large doses.
-Dave
(the classical greek distinction between logic and rhetoric seems to
have been drawn largely upon the distinction between truth and
truthiness; the latter word may be new but the concept it denotes is
ancient)
