Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 10:12:08 -0500
From: Christopher G Caruso <ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Reich, paranoia & conspiracy
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

Kenn Thomas wrote:
> 
> A conspiracy is commonly understood as an agreement of some combination of
> people to commit an evil act. Without even going into the co-ordinated press
> attacks on two continents, that the FBI spied on Reich (Steamshovel #12 is  
> one of many places for proof of that) , who was arrested for violating an   
> FDA injunction (Greenfield), clearly makes the event a conspiracy.

I guess this is really the crux of the issue, Kenn.  As Shawn has already    
pointed out, Reich himself offered an explanation for this: the 
emotional plague.  People who are both highly charged and highly
armored will spontaneously crush the life out of people who manifest 
uninhibited, un-armored life.  (Strikingly similar, I think, to Nietzsche's
specialized usage of his concept of "resentment" to describe the hypocrisy of 
Christian morality in "The Genealogy of Morals".)

Occam's Razor tells us that the simplest of competing theories should 
be preferred to the more complex, unless we have overwhelming evidence 
to go with a complex explanation.

In this case, Reich's own concept of the "emotional plague" is sufficient to 
explain the above facts that you listed.  To say that Rockefeller Interests 
worked with the US government bureaucrats who worked with Communist 
spies to conspire against Reich is a very complex explanation.  Simply to 
say that the arch-enemies of the 50's- capitalists and communists- worked 
together to do _anything_ would require iron-clad proof.  To 
motivate the conspiracy theory of Reich's case over the simpler explanation
that already explains the facts, it would require overwhelming evidence.  
That is what I have been asking for.


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