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Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions.
Supervillains eating children's brains. A divine mandate to keep
Donald Trump in the White House, no matter what. This surreal
combination of horror-movie shocks and fascist marching orders is
the signature of QAnon, which emerged from the dark corners of the
internet in 2017 and soon became the galvanizing force behind Trump
supporters, both during Trump's presidency and in the volatile,
ongoing aftermath of the 2020 election. But despite the strange
pervasiveness of QAnon, its origins remain obscure. Who is behind
QAnon's messaging, and what do they want? And why do they pair
their extreme political agenda with such obviously made-up,
phantasmagorical beliefs? In Operation Mindfuck, Robert Guffey
argues that this is not as mysterious as QAnon's anonymous "drops"
of cryptic directives seem to be. Drawing on an encyclopedic
knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research,
political analysis, and firsthand notes from QAnon's underbelly,
Guffey insists that we've seen it all before. Unraveling QAnon's
patchwork quilt of recycled material, from pulp-fiction spook
stories to Hunter S. Thompson-style pranksterism to Nixon-esque
dirty tricks, Guffey diagnoses QAnon as a highly engineered ploy,
calibrated to capture the attention and lock-step loyalty of its
audience. Will its followers ever realize that they've been had?
Can this new American religion be dispelled as a cult like any
other? The answers, Operation Mindfuck reveals, are hidden in plain
sight.
A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and
Philip K. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a
seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant
heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. Marine who'd
stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from
a nearby military base. Dion found himself arrested (under the
ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with
international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment
out of Camp Pendleton. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to
do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military
equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn't seem to bother the military. He
was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style
interrogation. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense
government scrutiny - and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre
experimentation involving "cloaking"- electro-optical camouflage so
extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance
of some meters - by the Department of Homeland Security.
Hallucination? Perhaps - except Robert Guffey, an English teacher
and Dion's friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the
scientists behind the project codenamed "Chameleo," experimental
technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Department
of Defense and deployed on American soil. More shocking still,
Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its
newest technologies on a number of American citizens. A condensed
version of this story was the cover feature of Fortean Times
Magazine (September 2013).
A young stand-up comedian must adapt to an apocalyptic virus
affecting people's sense of humor in this darkly satirical debut
novel. What happens when all humor is wiped off the face of the
Earth? Around the world, an unusual viral plague is striking the
population. The virus attacks only one particular section of the
brain. It isn't fatal, but it results in the victim's sense of
humor being obliterated. No one is immune. Elliot Greeley, a young
stand-up comedian starving his way through alternative comedy clubs
in Los Angeles, isn't even certain the virus is real at first. But
as the pandemic begins to eat away at the very heart of
civilization itself, the virus affects Elliot and his close knit
group of comedian friends in increasingly personal ways. What would
you consider the end of the world? Until the Last Dog Dies is a
sharp, cutting satire, both a clever twist on apocalyptic fiction
and a poignant look at the things that make us human.
Examining nearly every conspiracy theory in the public's
consciousness today, this investigation seeks to link seemingly
unrelated theories through a cultural studies perspective. While
looking at conspiracy theories that range from the moon landing and
JFK's assassination to the Oklahoma City bombing and Freemasonry,
this reconstruction reveals newly discovered connections between
wide swaths of events. Linking Dracula to George W. Bush, UFOs to
strawberry ice cream, and Jesus Christ to robots from outer space,
this is truly an all-original discussion of popular conspiracy
theories.
Written in a hopeful, honest, thoughtful, yet sometimes humorous,
tone, Station of the Cross is a collection of sixty reflections on
faith and life by an author who is an experienced pastor, writer,
husband, father and friend. FROM THE INTRODUCTION "Is there a God?
Can we know God? Is God worth knowing? What kind of God is this,
really, who Christians claim is a personal God and one who cares
for the person, the person in society and community? So what? "When
I think about those questions, I find that it is not the answers to
those questions but the unexpected glimpses of transcendence in the
temporal that keep me going. It's the occasional breaking through
of the numinous--of the character and presence of the divine--that
points me again toward that which is pure, best and luminous in
life.! [and] enough light to keep walking another step along the
way."
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