Godless Communists

For instance, in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the agent had to develop a capacity to see godless communists everywhere. Any agent whose perceptions indicated that there were actually very few godless communists in this country at that time would experience cognitive dissonance - his or her reality-tunnel was at variance with the "official" reality-tunnel of the pyramid. To talk about such perceptions at all would be to invite suspicions of eccentricity, intellectual wiseacreing or of being oneself a godless communist.

The same would apply to a Dominican inquisitor in the middle ages who lacked the capacity to "see" witches everywhere. In such authoritarian situations it is important to see what the Top Dogs (alpha males) see; it is inconvenient and possibly dangerous to see what is actually happening. Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
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