#2322 - Rebecca Lemov

“It's about Nazis and the use of methamphetamine during the war. The book details how the Nazi regime was fueled by speed during their campaigns.”

“The discussion revolves around the book 'Chaos' by Tom O'Neill, which explores the connections between Charles Manson and government involvement.”

“He wrote The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, which is a fascinating book about the Dead Sea Scrolls and has a controversial perspective on Christianity.”

“There's a section on extinction experiments which were experiments that led to death, involving prisoners considered disposable.”

“The original study, Mass Persuasion from 1946. It showed how people were affected by a broadcast on CBS radio where a famous singer named Kate Smith came on and she said, you know, she was trying to get people to support the war by buying bonds.”

“The basic thing about advertising in the golden age of the 1950s is that even though people were concerned about it and they wrote books like The Hidden Persuaders to expose the effects of advertising and PR.”

“The speaker mentions finding a book called The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, which inspired their research and reflects on the deterioration of Warsaw.”

“Aldous Huxley's last book before he died was called The Island, sketching out his vision of a non-abusive community where humans could flourish.”

“Vannevar Bush in the 1930s had a vision called Memex, where he said, what if you could put all the world's information inside a wooden desk made out of oak.”

“This book extensively documents the treatments and experiments related to behavioral management and the case of Leonard Kyle.”

“He said it would be on microphone because they didn't have digital databases, but it would be all microphone and you could call up anything. So it'd be a little, a miniaturized library because you could put an entire, you know, you could put the Bible on one frame, you know, the size of your thumbnail.”

“The speaker mentions reading Norman Kahn's classic 'History of Millennialism', which discusses various groups from the middle ages and their practices, including aspects of free love.”

“Aldous Huxley's idea of the perennial philosophy suggests that across religions, certain traits and properties are shared. He wrote a whole book describing what that was.”

“Michael Crichton wrote The Terminal Man, which was about Leonard Kyle, although he masked the name.”

“The speaker mentions their book titled 'Brainwashing, Mind Control and Hyper Persuasion' during a conversation about audio books.”

“Michael Crichton was writing a novel about Leonard Kyle, which turned out to be Jurassic Park.”

“Mentioned as one of the books West intended to write.”

“A philosophy for a new age mentioned in the context of West's intended writings.”

“A psychiatric memoir on the case of Jack Ruby, mentioned in the context of West's writings.”

“Mentioned as part of the list of books West intended to write.”

“Part of the titles West intended to write, mentioned in the context of his notes.”