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Did you read the book? It’s a good one. He was rejected (and they guy conducting the evaluation laughed secretly at him). Feynman wanted to march off to war. B
by inphovore 4y ago
Did you read the book? It’s a good one. He was rejected (and they guy conducting the evaluation laughed secretly at him).
Feynman wanted to march off to war. Back then, that war was perceived as a righteous war. Hard to believe, I know.
And bicameral doesn’t explain away the thought controlling. Those thought controlling are a thousand miles away in the protected confines of solitude, not hiding behind a bush a dozen feet away.
- jodrellblank 4y agoI have read Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, but long enough ago that I don't remember much of it - handstanding while drinking water to see if swallowing was gravity driven, misdirecting ants by moving their trails around, offering women drinks at bars only if they agreed to sleep with him up-front, learning 'consequentamente' in Portuguese because the Spanish classes were full, fixing radios by thinking (and then swapping valves around), eating chocolate cake for every cafe desert so he never had to think about it again, meeting a safecracker, et al. But no memory of sensory deprivation tanks or trying to go to war. > "those thought controlling are a thousand miles away in the protected confines of solitude, not hiding behind a bush a dozen feet away." Have you read Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare At Goats[1]? An account of the US army's paranormal investigations. It is non-fiction but reads like Catch-22. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
- inphovore 4y agoThe military ran a great program. Their successful failure led to the modern convention in thought control. In the past decades the Arian brotherhood and their rape prisons were more successful in power than the United states military.