Re: This one predicted practical telepathy

On 4/9/2025 9:53 AM, Charles Packer wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:09:34 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
 

Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_Quarterly_v02n02_1929-
Spring_slpn/page/n103/mode/1up (or https://tinyurl.com/bp5dwkm4 )
>
is my candidate for having predicted sending information to the human
brain remotely by radio waves if it ever comes to pass. The inventor
therein thinks through the issues of selectivity and of what kinds of
content could be meaningfully transmitted.

>
I just read this story and find it foolish.  If this were actually
possible, it would immediately be taken over by advertising people
beaming spam thoughts into everyone's head.  The author is extremely
optimistic about how such a technology would be used.

 You read the whole thing? I confess I skimmed it looking for the
"good parts" -- the passages about the telepathy apparatus.
A story by a Russian came out about the same time
https://zapatopi.net/blog/?
post=201506038860.alexander_belyaevs_the_lord_of_the_world
(or https://tinyurl.com/bp52jj8p )
in which the telepathic device did indeed cause mayhem. The
appearance of these two stories at the same time and their sort
of mirror image outcomes I think may be significant. Stay tuned.

The "Analysis" section of the linked blog post (https://tinyurl.com/bp52jj8p) is rather peculiar:
The existence of psychotronic mind control has always been an open secret in Russian society, going as far back as Rasputin at least.
Unlike the West, where the aspirational concept of Individualism was, and is, used to distract people from their induced conformities, the Soviet faction of the New World Order tried a different approach: an explicit call for collective thought. As a result they felt less of a need than their Western Bloc rivals to suppress paranoid samizdat exposing the psychotronic means of collectivism. "Of course, Comrade Paranoidsky, psychotronics exists! Is not glorious that which helps the workers unite?"
Consequently, even as the word "psychotronic" is still rarely mentioned in the West outside of paranoid circles, in Russia there are public demonstrations against the technology and officials flagrantly show off mind-control pistols at trade shows. For Russians today, it isn't a question of whether psychotronics are real, it's a question of "should my apartment be a psychotronic gulag?"