1/ Dinner w libertarians. One fruitbat wanted to talk about the Shadow Government.

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2/ me: "who is the shadow government?" him: "if you don't think there is a shadow government, you're ignorant"

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3/ me: "OK, so who ** IS ** the shadow government?" him: "You've got to read this great book, 'The Shadow Government'"

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4/ "have you read it?" "yes" "So who ** IS ** that shadow government?"

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4/ "bit does the book tell you?" "yes" "So who ** IS ** the shadow government?" He tried to stare me down for 20 seconds. Then left.

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5/ What the heck?

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6/ I can – sort of – understand conspiracy theorists. They want to seize the social capital of being the "insiders" who "know the truth".

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7/ But you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want the capital that comes from knowing something, you've got to actually KNOW it.

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Morlock P. here isn’t getting Abstract Horror at all, but the political application is still nice. (Snipped for the scrap blog because it’s deep in The Puzzle House territory).