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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4234337, member: 93416&quot;]Can you cite for this? My recollection is that (eg) von Danikan got ideas from Leithbridge and when I studied Leithbridge I concluded he was a deluded fantasist rather than a racist.</p><p><br /></p><p>There does seem to be evidence that during the cold war a strategy might have been considered to manipulate the population into the false belief there were aliens, in order to direct attention away from international tensions. I do not know if this is true, but it seems inherently plausible to me. Of course deluded fantasists would wish to believe that there are aliens watching. That was the point of the (suggested) exercise. But the fact that the human race contains some very manipulative people and also some very deluded ones seems not exactly news to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the hot topic here of “colonialism” – my own studies indicate many of the popular ideas on that matter track back to efforts to build a Pax Americana in the early post war period, in particular with attacks upon earlier British and French colonial attitudes. Anthropologists like Levi-Strauss led the charge, so its interesting to note that L-S spent WWII in New York, and thereafter rose on the back of the UN, in association with a lot of Ford Foundation money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps most pertinent here is that Rockefeller paid a guy called Lazarsfeld to study the sociological impact of that famous 1938 radio phenomenon concerning Aliens - the H G Wells “War of Words” broadcast and panic. Then later when Braudel (side kick of Levi-Strauss) got a lot of cash from Ford Foundation - part of the deal was that the very same Lazarsfeld got to oversee the syllabus.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the cash was supposedly to fund a historical institute – so why put an expert on propaganda about aliens in charge of the syllabus? Weird or what?</p><p><br /></p><p>But these are just facts. Afraid in my experience they tend to have little impact on what people want to believe</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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