I simply rely on doing honest learning and thinking, and letting it come out on the page or on air. Where I can see the possibility (I hope this will be ever more common), I try to find new material, both through requesting documents, and through looking at old ones anew.
From time to time, through a happy combination of need, curiosity and chance, I have come across a number of facts, experiences, values… some of them are mentioned in my bio… which at times have led me off the broad way in life. To keep banging on about them can at times be to gain a reputation as intellectually and socially not quite reputable. As far as that goes, I just have to rely on whatever mite of reason I have. By now, for me it is a simple choice to keep banging on about them, to decline the easy option to keep shtum, both because these things are more likely to provide “solutions” to our common ailments, and also because they are at once true and more adventurous to think about.
Of course, many things are not as exciting as all that, which is fine too. This website exists simply so that no material close to me has to be thrown through any forbidding transom.
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I simply rely on doing honest learning and thinking, and letting it come out on the page or on air. Where I can see the possibility (I hope this will be ever more common), I try to find new material, both through requesting documents, and through looking at old ones anew.
From time to time, through a happy combination of need, curiosity and chance, I have come across a number of facts, experiences, values… some of them are mentioned in my bio… which at times have led me off the broad way in life. To keep banging on about them can at times be to gain a reputation as intellectually and socially not quite reputable. As far as that goes, I just have to rely on whatever mite of reason I have. By now, for me it is a simple choice to keep banging on about them, to decline the easy option to keep shtum, both because these things are more likely to provide “solutions” to our common ailments, and also because they are at once true and more adventurous to think about.
Of course, many things are not as exciting as all that, which is fine too. This website exists simply so that no material close to me has to be thrown through any forbidding transom.
WRITINGS by Rory O\'Connor
The CIA’s Files on Ireland
The United States’ primary foreign intelligence service, as reflected in its files on a small rainy island.
The Ayahuasca Brouhaha
Taking the brew over a weekend in the Irish midlands, and smashing the system. The head-system.
How money happens
How is money created? A report on an unconventional explanation – given by the Bank of England.
Protecting “the hijackers”
The full story, concisely told but complete in a way that most other accounts, such as “The Looming Tower”, shockingly are not, of the CIA’s protection of the alleged 9/11 hijackers. Well-sourced and still devastating.
Listening to Lorna Byrne
An attempt not to prejudge whether the famous mystic should be taken seriously
Is the Kindle worth the candle?
An update of Orwell’s “Books v. Cigarettes”, doing the sums to figure out if e-books are cost-effective
WRITINGS by Rory O\'Connor
The CIA’s Files on Ireland
The United States’ primary foreign intelligence service, as reflected in its files on a small rainy island.
The Ayahuasca Brouhaha
Taking the brew over a weekend in the Irish midlands, and smashing the system. The head-system.
How money happens
How is money created? A report on an unconventional explanation – given by the Bank of England.
Protecting “the hijackers”
The full story, concisely told but complete in a way that most other accounts, such as “The Looming Tower”, shockingly are not, of the CIA’s protection of the alleged 9/11 hijackers. Well-sourced and still devastating.
Listening to Lorna Byrne
An attempt not to prejudge whether the famous mystic should be taken seriously
Is the Kindle worth the candle?
An update of Orwell’s “Books v. Cigarettes”, doing the sums to figure out if e-books are cost-effective