By Nick Harding
Pocket necessities is a dynamic sequence of books which are concise, energetic, and straightforward to learn. choked with proof in addition to professional evaluations, each one publication has the entire key details you want to learn about such renowned themes as movie, tv, cult fiction, heritage, and extra. during this publication, Nick Harding units out to explain a bunch of city legends, suggesting that we should always no longer brush aside them merely as nonsense, nor settle for them as gospel fact. yet via striving to appreciate their underlying meanings, we commence to work out their precise worthy as folklore for the trendy international. to appreciate folklore and for that reason the world of the city legend is to appreciate the psyche of a state, and we will be able to achieve perception into our personal fears and people of our fellow humans.
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One may grow to resemble the other. S. STARTED WW2 It is known that President Bush’s family helped to bankroll the Nazis – this was a deliberate ploy to destabilise Europe and in particular Britain’s Empire which, although in decline, was the dominant force in world power. A world war with its roots in central Europe would cripple the continent allowing the US to move in and dominate it. Not only that, by securing victory in the Far East the US would control that region of the world as well. America has become the dominant force in world politics – therefore the US started WW2 to control the world economically.
It is denied, therefore it is true,’ is often the illogical outcome of this mode of uncritical thinking. Take, for example,Area 51 or Dreamland where it is claimed that captured flying saucers are being back-engineered and flown by US government personnel. ’, then the inevitable answer will be a categorical ‘No’. Perversely, that will be seen as a denial to hide the truth. The fact that the US Government denied Area 51 existed until recently just accelerated the misleading information which prompted many UFO enthusiasts to make erroneous connections and false assumptions.
Religious organisations also use missionaries, a very obvious meme vector. The memeplex stored in their brains – the belief system – is transferred directly into other cultures using a meme machine – in this case the Missionary. In one sense all memes can be termed viruses of the mind and they can be just as contagious as their biological counterparts. They are spread almost subliminally 55 NICK HARDING from person to person or group-to-group and disseminated throughout society by social interaction, verbal communication and through the media.