Incensare ad libitum no.
Da ieri a canali unificati si assiste alla celebrazione del politico Berlusconi. L'apologia è servita. Di seguito alcune gaffes istituzionali dello statista Berlusconi. Buona lettura.
8 febbraio 2002: siamo a Caceres, in Spagna, in occasione del vertice dei ministri degli esteri europei. Berlusconi, durante la foto ufficiale, fa le corna. Il premier si giustifica affermando: “Volevo far ridere un gruppo di boy-scout che assisteva”.
4 ottobre, conferenza stampa con il primo ministro danese e presidente di turno dell’Ue, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Berlusconi approfitta e scherza sulla vita privata del diplomatico: “Rasmussen è il primo ministro più bello dell’Europa. Penso di presentarlo a mia moglie perché è anche più bello di Cacciari. Con tutto quello che si dice in giro…”
2 luglio 2003, il leader italiano risponde così al deputato tedesco, Martin Schultz, che lo aveva criticato su conflitto d’interessi e giustizia: “Signor Schultz in Italia c’è un produttore che sta preparando un film sui campi di concentramento nazisti. La proporrò per il ruolo di kapò”
22 giugno 2005 all’apertura dell’Authority alimentare dell’Ue a Parma, Berlusconi sostiene di “aver usato anche le sue armi da playboy per convincere la presidente finlandese” Tarja Hatonen a lasciare all’Italia la nuova istituzione europea, a cui ambiva la stessa Finlandia.
18 aprile del 2008 l’ex presidente del Consiglio italiano riesce a far piangere una cronista. Durante una conferenza stampa congiunta fra Putin e Berlusconi una giornalista russa chiede al suo presidente se fosse vero che intendesse divorziare e aggiunge “Non pensa a sua figlia che oltretutto vive all’estero?”. Mentre Putin è intento a rispondere, il Cavaliere fa un gesto scherzoso verso la cronista, mimando un colpo di mitra. La donna a fine conferenza scoppia in lacrime, visto che nel periodo la Russia contava in 10 anni l’uccisione di circa 200 cronisti.
18 novembre 2008, il presidente del Consiglio, sempre Berlusconi, nell’accogliere Angela Merkel in piazza dell’Unità d’Italia, si nasconde dietro il pennone portabandiera, per poi sbucare all’improvviso facendo “cucù” all’arrivo della cancelliera.
27 febbraio 2009 quando Berlusconi sussurra, a microfoni accesi, a Sarkozy: “Io ti ho dato la tua donna”.
4 aprile 2009, Berlusconi si fa attendere da Angela Merkel. Sul ponte del Reno il premier italiano è impegnato in una lunga telefonata, mentre la cancelliera lo attende per accoglierlo alla cerimonia per 160 anni della Nato.
10 settembre 2009, il primo ministro italiano è in compagnia dell’omologo spagnolo Zapatero. Un giornalista si rivolge a Berlusconi chiedendogli se avesse mai pensato di dimettersi a causa del presunto giro di prostituzione in cui sarebbe coinvolto. Il premier non ha peli sulla lingua e stizzito attacca: “È invidioso eh? Abbiamo molte turiste straniere che hanno prenotato le vacanze del prossimo anno” e poi ancora “Vedo che lei legge solo L’Unità e La Repubblica, complimenti”.
23 novembre 2011 Silvio Berlusconi arriva in ritardo al vertice Nato di Lisbona. La versione ufficiale parla di problemi di traffico aeroportuale, fonti sostengono che il premier fosse al telefono con Mara Carfagna, che minacciava di lasciare Il partito.
La tensione tra Italia e Germania è arrivata a sfiorare persino l’incidente diplomatico nel settembre 2011 a causa di una presunta frase offensiva del presidente di Fi con allusione sessuale (culona) contenuta in una intercettazione relativa all’inchiesta di Bari sul caso Tarantini. Il chiarimento tra i due sarebbe arrivato solo nell’ottobre del 2015, con una stretta di mano al vertice del Ppe a Madrid.
Forse la gaffe più clamorosa, che in poche ore fece il giro del mondo, invadendo le home page dei siti web, è stata quella sull’allora neo presidente Usa, Barack Obama nel 2009. «Obama? Giovane, bello e abbronzato», esordisce Berlusconi con un sorriso al termine di un incontro a Mosca con l’allora presidente russo Medvedev.
27 settembre dello stesso anno, tornando dal suo primo incontro con Obama, in occasione di un intervento alla festa nazionale della Libertà di Milano: «Vi porto i saluti di uno che si chiama… uno abbronzato… Ah, Barack Obama». E ancora: «voi non ci crederete, ma sono andati a prendere il sole in spiaggia in due, perché è abbronzata anche la moglie».
Nel settembre 2009 Berlusconi si ripete: a Washington viene accolto dai coniugi Obama e crea imbarazzo con un gesto di apprezzamento nei confronti della first lady americana, Michelle, squadrandola dalla testa ai piedi.
Altro siparietto a Londra, nell’aprile dello stesso anno, durante il G20, Berlusconi richiama l’attenzione del presidente Usa urlando "Mister Obama!" e la Regina Elisabetta si indispettisce e chiede: «What is it? Why does he have to shout?», (tradotto, "Ma cosa ha da urlare così tanto?").
Nella foto ufficiale fa le corna al ministro degli Esteri spagnolo Josep Piqué. È solo l’inizio di uno show: davanti ai cronisti si leva una scarpa e la fa loro esaminare per dimostrare che «non è vero, come dicono, che porto i tacchi».
L’ultima gaffe in ordine di tempo è quella del maggio 2017, durante un comizio a Monza. Nel mirino la moglie del presidente francese Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte: «Macron? È un bel ragazzo, che ha una bella mamma che se lo porta sottobraccio...».
Fonti stampa.
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Multisexual / Mspec Masterlist!
**Note that some of these orientations have multiple definitions and/or overlapping definitions. Some of these identities also blur the line between monosexual and multisexual. If you'd like something to be added, leave a DM, ask, or note!
A
Abrosexual: One having a fluid orientation or attraction that changes.
Achillean: Masculinely-aligned people attracted to other masculinely-aligned people and men. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Agatic: Woman attracted to other women and nonbinary people.
Agenipian: Agender person attracted to two or more genders.
Ainic: Genderless person attracted to multiple genders.
Alexandritic: Someone who is both a man and woman attracted to men and nonbinary people.
Amberian: Someone who is a man, woman, and nonbinary attracted to men as a man, a woman as a woman, and nonbinary people as nonbinary, but not the other ways around.
Amethystian: Woman or femininely-aligned nonbinary person attracted to other women and nonbinary people.
Ambisexual: Attraction to similar and different genders.
Ambivaic: Attraction regardless of gender.
Ammolic: Nonbinary person attracted to women and nonbinary people.
Amorsexual: Attraction based on personality alone with no regard to gender or appearance.
Amphion: Attraction to the binary genders or attraction to the binary genders as well as others.
Androgynesexual: Attracted to androgynous or gender neutral people.
Androsexual: Attraction to masculine genders. (Problematic history with transmisic usage.)
Anfisian: Someone who is both man and woman and is attracted to men and women.
Antigendersexual: Attraction to genderless or agender people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Apeironsexual: Identifying with many or all orientations due to having a fluid sexuality, such as the case with abrosexuality.
Apolloian: Bisexual man or nonbinary person attracted to men and/or nonbinary people.
Aquian: Attracted exclusively to those whose gender changes, such as genderfluid or genderflux people.
Artemisian: Bisexual woman or nonbinary person attracted to women and/or nonbinary people.
Asterian: Woman attracted to nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Asteroidian: Man or masculinely-aligned person attracted to nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Astroidian: Man or masculinely-aligned person attracted to nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Astronic: Man attracted to men, women, and nonbinary people.
Auroric: Attraction to genderfluid, genderflux, and fluidflux people.
B
Begonia: Queer attraction to women, woman-aligned, and/or nonbinary people.
Benitoitic: Someone who is both man and woman attracted to women and nonbinary people.
Bicatgendersexual: Attraction to two or more cat-related genders/xenogenders, or someone who is both bisexual and catgender.
Bicurious: Attraction that is mostly monosexual but open to exploring attraction/relationships with other genders, or someone questioning their orientation.
Biflexible: Being primarily bisexual but having a flexible or fluid identity.
Bifluid: Being bisexual with fluid attraction.
Bifluix: One whose bisexuality fluctuates in fluidity, or is fluid and flux.
Biflux: One whose bisexuality or attraction to various genders fluctuates.
Bi Gay: Someone who uses both bi(sexual/romantic/etc.) and gay; queerly attracted to men and other genders.
Bigeninic: Attraction to bigender people.
Bi Lesbian: Someone who uses both bi(sexual/romantic/etc.) and lesbian; queerly attracted to women and other genders.
Bimnsexual: Attraction to miaspec (male-gendered/male-aligned) and nonbinary people.
Binitor: Bisexual person attracted to all genders except men.
Binitrix: Bisexual person attracted to all genders except women.
Binsexual: Attracted exclusively to men and women.
Bisexual: Attraction to similar and different genders or attraction to two or more genders.
Brownitian: Nonbinary attracted to women and nonbinary people.
Butterfly Bisexual: One whose bisexuality fluctuates in attraction or preference.
C
Calistian: Someone who is both m-spec veldian and m-spec cenelian, or someone who experiences gay attraction to men and nonbinary people.
Callistian: Someone who is both woman and nonbinary attracted to men and women.
Carnelian: Nonbinary attracted to men and nonbinary people.
Cinnabaric: Someone who is nonbinary attracted to nonbinary and woman attracted to women, but not the other way around.
Citrinian: Woman attracted to men and nonbinary people.
Courpalian: Someone who is nonbinary attracted to women, men, and nonbinary people, and man attracted to men and nonbinary people, but not the other ways around.
Courscatian: Nonbinary man attracted to women, men, and nonbinary people.
D
Dahlian: Agender person attracted to multiple genders men, women, and agender and nonbinary people.
Deltheon: Someone who uses a multisexual label and straight, such as the case in bi straight.
Demetic: Attraction to everyone except those who are man or man-aligned.
Despian: Someone who uses both mspec lesbian and mspec cenelian (enbian).
Deunisexual: Attraction to all but one gender.
Diamoric: Nonbinary person whose attraction cannot be described by a similar/opposite gender dichotomy or nonbinary person attracted to other nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Dionian: Attraction to the binary genders or attraction to the binary genders as well as others.
Differosexual: Attracted to genders that are different from one's own.
Differsexual: One whose different genders or gender parts have different attractions, such as the case for demigender; these attractions can be static or fluctuate, but are not fluid.
Diomnity: One who is omnisexual and omniromantic, but has different sexual and romantic gender preferences.
Disexual: Attraction to only two genders.
Duflefluid: Genderfluid person who only experiences binary genders attracted to those who identify with binary genders.
Dufligro: One who identifies as a binary gender and is sexually (duflesexual) and/or romantically (dufleromantic) attracted to only the binary genders.
Duoplur: One who experiences split attraction with different multisexual identities, such as the case for pansexual polyromantic, or one who is attracted to multiple genders with different attraction types.
Dynamasexual: One whose asexuality fluctuates, changes, or is different for different genders.
Dyosexual: Attraction to only two genders.
E
Ebilo: Attracted primarily to men and women, with an unlikely chance of attraction to nonbinary people.
Eclipsic: Attraction to all nonbinary people except those who are binary-aligned or non-aligned nonbinary people.
Enbian: Nonbinary person attracted to other nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Enbisian: Femininely- or non-aligned nonbinary people attracted to women and femininely- and non-aligned nonbinary people.
Enbitor: Nonbinary attracted exclusively to men and nonbinary people.
Enbitrix: Nonbinary attracted exclusively to women and nonbinary people.
Enboric: Attraction to nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Erbisexual: Bisexual person attracted to men and women (and perhaps more genders) with a lean towards masculinely-aligned people and men.
Extrasiebisexual: Bisexual person attracted to men and women (and perhaps more genders) who experiences different attraction towards women than they do men.
Extraginebisexual/Extragynebisexual: Bisexual person attracted to men and women (and perhaps more genders) who experiences different attraction towards women than they do men.
F
Faunic: Non-man attracted to non-men.
Febfem: Bisexual woman who exclusively dates other women or people she perceives as women. (Problematic history, almost exclusively used by TERFs and Political Lesbians.)
Femaric: Queer attraction to women and femininely-aligned people.
Femique: Queer attraction to women. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Fincuan: Woman attracted exclusively to other women and nonbinary people.
Finmanic: Preferred attraction to men whose gender is feminine-in-nature (FIN).
Finsexual/Finic: Exclusive attraction to feminine genders or feminine-in-nature genders.
Flinic: Multisexual attraction with fluid gender preferences.
Florian: Man exclusively attracted to other men and nonbinary people.
Fluidflexible: One whose fluid attraction is flexible, or one who is fluid between attraction-flux labels.
G
Gai: Attraction that is “gay” in a nonbinary way. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Gay: As used as an umbrella term, experiencing queer attraction or attraction to same or similar genders to one's one. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Gayspike: Primarily attracted to the similar gender, with brief, sudden, and intense spikes of attraction to the dissimilar gender(s).
GCsexual: Attracted exclusively to people who are gender conforming.
Gynesexual: Attraction to feminine genders. (Problematic history with transmisic usage.)
Geranian: Agender person attracted to women and nonbinary and agender people.
H
Heliodoran: Someone who is nonbinary attracted to nonbinary and man attracted to men, but not the other way around.
Hemi-Bisexual: Someone who is bisexual and attracted to one gender less than they are the other(s).
Hemi-Pansexual: Someone who is pansexual and attracted to one gender less than they are the other(s).
Heteroflexible: Being primarily straight with occasional or incidental gay attraction, or primarily a heterosexual who is flexible in their identity.
Hetspike: Primarily attracted to the dissimilar gender, with brief, sudden, and intense spikes of attraction to the same or similar gender(s).
Hexasexual/Hexsexual: Attraction to six genders.
Hexian: Someone who is both multisexual gay/veldian and multisexual lesbian.
Homoflexible: Being primarily gay with occasional or incidental straight attraction, or primarily a homosexual who is flexible in their identity.
Homospike: Primarily attracted to the similar gender, with brief, sudden, and intense spikes of attraction to the dissimilar gender(s).
Hyscenare: Anonbinary person exclusively attracted to binary women, anonbinary people, and non-aligned nonbinary people.
I
Idiosexual: Multigender person who experience different attractions based on their different genders, gender categories, or gender systems.
Ilunisexual: Attraction to all but one gender.
Immonosexual: Attraction to all but one gender.
Inmosexual: Attraction to multiple genders with no gender preference.
Iolitian: Someone who is woman-aligned, man-aligned, and nonbinary genders attracted to woman-aligned and nonbinary people.
Iridian: Nonbinary woman attracted to women and nonbinary people.
Irisian: Agender person attracted to men and agender and nonbinary people.
J
Japsian: Nonbinary person attracted to other nonbinary people, women, and men.
K
Kyanitian: Nonbinary man attracted to men and women.
L
Labradorian: Man, woman, and nonbinary person attracted to men and nonbinary people.
Lapian: Nonbinary man attracted to men and women.
Legeresexual: Multisexual person who will only date one gender.
Leramuzze: Anonbinary person exclusively attracted to binary women and neutrois.
Lesbiflexible/Lesboflexible: Primarily lesbian with occasional or incidental heterosexual attraction, or primarily a lesbian who is flexible in their identity.
Lessexual: Primarily attracted to men and women, but occasionally attracted to nonbinary people.
Lilacian: Agender person attracted to men and nonbinary people.
Lilae Lesbian: A lesbian exclusively attracted to women and all other genders that are not primarily man.
Lilaen/Lilaeamoric: A lesbian exclusively attracted to women and all other genders that are not primarily man.
Litian: Man attracted to other men and nonbinary people.
Lunarian: Attracted exclusively to lunarians or femininely-aligned nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
M
Maedic: Woman attracted to nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Magnolian: Agender person attracted to agender and nonbinary people.
Marblic: Man attracted to men, women, and nonbinary people.
Marsic: Exclusive attraction to men, partial men, and masculinely-aligned nonbinary people.
Mascic: Queer attraction to men and masculinely-aligned nonbinary people.
Masexual: Attraction to men and/or masculine genders.
Masquine: Queer attraction to men. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Media-Bisexual: Someone who is bisexual and attracted to one gender less than they are the other(s).
Media-Pansexual: Someone who is pansexual and attracted to one gender less than they are the other(s).
Mercuric/Mercurian: Attraction to men, women, and femininely- and masculinely-aligned nonbinary people.
Mesque: Someone who is both multisexual gay/veldian and multisexual lesbian.
Minsexual: Excluisve attraction to masculine genders or masculine-in-nature genders.
Mixsexual: Attraction to “people who, intentionally or not, mix gender in body or soul.” (Kate Bornstein)
M-Spec: Short for “Multisexual Spectrum.” Umbrella term for anyone who is attracted to multiple genders.
Multisexual: Being attracted to multiple genders.
N
Neptunic: Attraction to women, non-gendered people, and non-masculinely aligned nonbinary people.
Ninsexual: Exclusive attraction to neutral genders or neutral-in-nature genders or exclusive attraction to nonbinary genders or nonbinary-in-nature genders.
Nomasexual: Attraction to all genders except (binary) men.
Nowomasexual: Attraction to all genders except (binary) women.
Novosexual: Attraction that changes along with gender.
O
Omnigay: Attraction that changes to always remain gay in the case of genderfluid people.
Omnisexual: Attraction to all genders.
Omnistraight: Attraction that changes to always remain straight in the case of genderfluid people.
Opalian: Nonbinary man attracted to men and nonbinary people.
Orbisian: Nonbinary person attracted to women. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Orchidian: Agender person attracted to men and women.
P
Pangeninic: Attraction to pangender people.
Pansexual: Attraction regardless of gender or attraction to all genders.
Penultisexual: Attraction to all genders except one's own.
Perisosexual: Having a binary gender and being attracted to the same gender and some or all nonbinary genders, but not the other binary gender.
Plumerian: Agender person attracted to women and nonbinary people.
Pluralian: Being attracted to multiple genders or being multisexual.
Plurisexual: Attraction to multiple genders.
Polysexual: Attracted to multiple, but not all, genders.
Q
Quadrisian: Nonbinary person attracted to men. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Queer: An umbrella term for anybody who is not cisgender, heterosexual, heteromantic, and/or perisex.
R
S
Sapphic: Femininely-aligned people attracted to other femininely-aligned people and women. Can be multisexual or monosexual.
Saturnic: Attraction to androgynously-aligned nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Solaric: Attracted exclusively to male-aligned or masculine nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Sollunaric: Attraction to all nonbinary people except those who are binary-aligned or non-aligned nonbinary people.
Spectrasexual: Attraction to multiple, but not all, genders or attraction to a wide spectrum of genders.
Stellaric: Attracted exclusively to non-aligned, neutral, or genderless nonbinary people. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Straightspike: Primarily attracted to the dissimilar gender, with brief, sudden, and intense spikes of attraction to the same or similar gender(s).
Strayt: Attraction that is “straight” in a nonbinary way. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Sundrian: Multigender person who experience different attractions based on their different genders, gender categories, or gender systems.
T
Toric: Nonbinary person attracted to men. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Torensexual/Torenamoric: Attracted exclusively to men and nonbinary people.
Trixensexual/Trixenamoric: Attracted exclusively to women and nonbinary people.
Trixic: Nonbinary person attracted to women. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
U
Uranic: Attraction to men, non-gendered people, and non-femininely aligned nonbinary people.
V
Venusic: Attracted exclusively to women, partial women, and femininely-aligned nonbinary people.
Versian: Nonbinary person attracted to women, men, and nonbinary people.
Vincian: Masculinely-aligned people attracted to other masculinely-aligned people and men. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Violettian: Queer attraction to women. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
W
Wildean: Masculinely-aligned people attracted to other masculinely-aligned people and men. Can be monosexual or multisexual.
Womasexual: Attracted to women and/or feminine genders.
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The primary data of this book concern side effects of using psychic abilities and engaging supernatural phenomena. Those effects can be discovered by analyzing the social milieu around the phenomena. Of particular interest are the repercussions to groups and institutions, including families, academe, governments, science, religion, and industry. There is a pattern, and generally the phenomena either provoke or accompany some kind of destructuring—a concept discussed at length in this book. For instance, the phenomena do not flourish within stable institutions, and endless examples illustrate this. Fortunately, two theoretical perspectives are already developed that connect the supernatural to ideas about social order and structure. The first is Victor Turner’s work on liminality and anti-structure. The second is Max Weber’s theory of rationalization. Both have profound implications for understanding psychic phenomena.
The central theme developed in this book is that psi, the paranormal, and the supernatural are fundamentally linked to destructuring, change, transition, disorder,marginality, the ephemeral, fluidity, ambiguity, and blurring of boundaries. In contrast, the phenomena are repressed or excluded with order, structure, routine, stasis, regularity, precision, rigidity, and clear demarcation. I hesitate to offer this very general statement because, by itself, it will almost certainly be misinterpreted; much of the book is devoted to explaining it. I will present some brief examples here.
When entire cultures undergo profound change, there is often an upsurge of interest in the paranormal. During the breakup of the former U.S.S.R. there was an explosion of paranormal activity throughout eastern Europe. Healers and psychics featured prominently in the media. This should not have been a surprise because anthropologists have shown that the supernatural has figured in thousands of cultural revitalization movements.
Numerous mystics have displayed extraordinary paranormal powers, but many of them were outsiders, marginal characters whose lives were exceedingly odd. St. Francis of Assisi performed many miracles, but he was mistrusted by church authorities and caused them many headaches.
Groups that attempt to use paranormal abilities, such as those in modern-day witchcraft and spiritualism, typically have a transitory, ephemeral existence. The few that manage some measure of institutionalizing (with buildings and paid staff) become marginalized, and often are accused of fraud and deception. Likewise psychical researchorganizations have always had a tenuous existence, and parapsychology has never been truly integrated into the academic establishment.
Magicians (performers of magic tricks) have played central roles in paranormal controversies, not only recently, but for hundreds of years. Magicians on both sides of the dispute have faked psychic phenomena, thereby contributing to the ambiguity surrounding them.
Skeptics understand that frauds and hoaxes plague the paranormal, but parapsychologists naively consider them only a minor problem. Parapsychologists have amassed overwhelming evidence for the reality of psi; skeptics ignore it and even deny that such evidence exists.
Many aspects of the paranormal (e.g., ghosts, UFO abductions, Bigfoot) have temporarily captured intense popular interest, but that has never been translated into financially viable, stable institutions that directly elicit or engage the phenomena. Instead the researchers use their own funds and are given no support from institutions. In contrast, science has uninhibitedly ventured into virtually all other areas once considered taboo. The study of sexuality, in all its forms, is established in universities and medical schools. Sizeable industries and well-funded research labs are organized around cloning, artificial insemination, and genetic manipulation, despite ethical qualms. Thelowly ghost researcher receives only sneers.
Many religions display an ambivalent, wary attitude toward supernatural phenomena. The 1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church shows this clearly. It acknowledges that “God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints,” but in the very next paragraph it states that “interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums … contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.” The following paragraph says “All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers … even if this were for the sake of restoring health—are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion.” Catholicism is not alone in these views, and many other diverse religious and spiritual traditions also acknowledge the existence of such phenomena but warn against seeking that power.
In short, the paranormal and supernatural are ambiguous and marginal in virtually all ways: socially, intellectually, academically, religiously, scientifically, and conceptually. They don’t fit in the rational world.
Some may see no pattern to the above examples; they do appear chaotic. But there is a pattern, and it has enormous implications. The theories of anti-structure and rationalization, which will be described later, provide remarkable insight.
One of the implications of the pattern is that there are subtle but pervasive pressures that conspire to keep the paranormal marginalized and scientific investigation at a minimum. This does not require a consciously organized human conspiracy. It is a direct property of the phenomena. Psi interacts with our physical world, with our thoughts, and with our social institutions. Even contemplating certain ideas has consequences. The phenomena are not to be tamed by mere logic and rationality, and attempts to do so are doomed to failure. These notions are undoubtedly anathema to my scientific colleagues in parapsychology. To their chagrin, I will demonstrate that deception and the irrational are keys to understanding psi.
-George P Hansen - The Trickster and the Paranormal
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