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Then they were ordered to resume their march, and they moved on into battle, jesting at God and sudden death. But before he had passed from their hearing, Bacchus Pentland turned and shouted at the staring boys once more his triumphant prophecy of eternal life.

"Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'."

The boy Oliver stared down the road, the hard Dutch order of his life touched by the scarecrow gallantry of the ragged men, with a grey darkening of his small cold eyes as there arose in him the obscure and passionate hunger for voyages that had led from Fenchurch Street to Philadelphia. And as his gaze followed the burly figure of the prophet, he was touched by something strange and fleeting, far more remote than Armageddon. He had been touched by the dark finger of Chance, but he did not know it.

Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, p. 12

Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life,
The original version of Look Homeward, Angel,
Text established by A. Bruccoli and M.J. Bruccoli,
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2000.

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  1. On the Nature and Sources of Ignorance
    The Role of Group Identity Myths
  2. Futures Of Learning Communities
    Myths Of Collective Intelligence
  3. Of Our Kind (OOK), Of The Body (OTB), And Otherwise
    Wikipedia As The Immune System Of The Cabal Critter
  4. Wikipedia Culture : How Like A Cult
    Single Mad Belief? Mental Cul-De-Sac?
  5. De-Programming 101 : Remedial Summer Session
    Top Ten Deadly Warning Signs Your Brain Is Washed
  6. Worshippers Of The Unseen Butterfingers
    Critical Reflection ⇒ Making The Invisible Hand Visible
  7. Transference Alignment Groups (TAGs)
    “A” = Affiliation, Allegiance, Authority
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Jon Awbrey
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Selected Threads
  1. On the Nature and Sources of Ignorance
    The Role of Group Identity Myths
  2. Futures Of Learning Communities
    Myths Of Collective Intelligence
  3. Of Our Kind (OOK), Of The Body (OTB), And Otherwise
    Wikipedia As The Immune System Of The Cabal Critter
  4. The Uncertain Mind
    Sorrentino & Roney
  5. Wikipedia Culture : How Like A Cult
    Single Mad Belief? Mental Cul-De-Sac?
  6. Fear Of Uncertainty →?→ Fear Of Learning
    Inquiry Into The Basic Block To Inquiry
  7. De-Programming 101 : Remedial Summer Session
    Top Ten Deadly Warning Signs Your Brain Is Washed
  8. Affiliation, Alienation, Anomie, And Their Exploitation
    Sybilization : Its Drives And Its Disk Contents
  9. Worshippers Of The Unseen Butterfingers
    Critical Reflection ⇒ Making The Invisible Hand Visible
  10. Transference Alignment Groups (TAGs)
    “A” = Affiliation, Allegiance, Authority
  11. Sam Vaknin on “The Cult of Wikipedia”
    The “Pathological Narcissistic Space”
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  1. On Going Native
    Perils Of Field Study
  2. Sinking Beneath The Critical Threshold
    The Great Sucking Power Of Cult-Think
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