A Stream of Consciousness
- 1958, Lord Kindersley and William Keswick were accused of insider trading. “It is difficult to remember conversations one has whilst shooting on a grouse moor.”
- Mau Mau uprising in Kenya where the British put them in detention camps. Mass torture and killing.
- Second Boer War in which the British used concentration camps.
- Michael De Freitas came to London (the homeland) from Trinidad (an extension of the empire) and described it as a sad and frightened country where he wasn’t wanted.
- Michael De Freitas worked for Peter Rachman. A gangster, a slumlord. He was born in Poland, was interned by Nazi. When he escaped to Russia, he was once again re-interned in Siberia labour camp.
- Jiang Qing was marginalised because she was thought to be too dangerous due to her individualism. Everyone was part of a unit, she insisted that she was a unit of one.
- John Birch Society is an anti-communist group.
- Richard Hofstadter published [an essay](The Paranoid Style in American Politics). America was built from the start with a dark paranoid. Protestants, Mason, Illuminati…, there have been many conspiracies throughout history not limited to just America.
- Discordianism is a philosophy, religion which believes that the outside world is chaotic, and human perception brings order and meaning to the universe. One of the founders (Kerry Wendell Thornley) met Lee Harvey Oswald during marine camp. The former intended to write a novel with the hero based on the latter because he admired the free independent personality. Then Oswald defected to Soviet Union.
- Ethel Boole believed the way to change the world was to give your self up to the force of revolution, to surrender your individual self and identity to the dream of a better future for others. She wrote the novel The Gadfly which inspired Russian revolution.