The Paranoid and the Agnostic

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In Prometheus Rising, Wilson quotes Dr. Ilya Pragoshini as saying dissipative structures are teetering perpetually between self destruction and reorganization on a higher level of information or of coherence. I often have felt in the last few years that U.S. and maybe larger chunks of the world are going through a kind of chapel perilous type journey," he says. "I'm not someone who believes there are more, you know, people are more prone to conspiracy theories now"

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America.

IN AMERICA. He is an editor at Reason magazine, and he lives in Baltimore.

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Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer Ryan Reeves

“In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade). You come out the other side either stone paranoid or an agnostic; there is no third way. I came out agnostic.” -RAW