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Subject: Re: Reich, paranoia & conspiracy - Mon, 22 Jan 1996
12:05:10 -0500
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:05:10 -0500
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Reich, paranoia & conspiracy
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
>"conspiracy theory" brings to mind a certain fast and loose form of
argument which may have a certain sort of consistency, but lacks depth
- or a style of argumentation that moves too quickly for the details
to be verified.
"Conspiracy theory" moves no more quickly than the nightly barrage of
consensus reality people receive on the evening news. I bet that on
average two out of every five people you might ask about Reich will say
they have never heard of them, two will dismiss him as paranoid and
one might be reflective enough to understand some of the "conspiracy
theory" that explains what happened to him.
I have read (and published) enough well-documented "conspiracy theory"
to have enormous difficulty dismissing it as shallow.
>the "too-muchness of orgonomy" that Reich talks about in the opening pages
of _Ether, God and Devil_. Reich was recognized as a rapid and mobile thinker.
As a one-time "crazy Bergsonian" he must have labored under some concern
about the effects of that speed. At the same time, he seems to have been
very rigorous about not claiming too much for this too-rapid work. The
harshness of the end of his career is perhaps the result of an enforced
"rashness" - as outside pressures forced him to prematurely come to terms
with all that he had at play in his work and life.
This is an interesting analysis, to be sure, but it does cast Reich's
final days in a rather vague way. A conspiracy of federal agencies
conspired to stop Reich's work, throw him in prison and possibly kill him.
This had to have been done for more reason than he was "just too much".
If we want answers, we have to look at conspiracies.
kt
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