The COMPLEAT Broadcasts, Chapter 2
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Narrative fiction podcast with a call-out to Ong’s Hat
Stuff like this [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCjME-3m5B3GbDXmAUQ9qddYqgCT_litc&si=rsQE9RrcWHuQkxch] continues to appear on YouTube
Spooky New Jersey Road Trip: From Cape May to Clinton Road
Ong’s Hat is less of an attraction and more of a folklore stop. Once a tiny Pine Barrens settlement, it later became attached to stories of secret experiments, underground researchers, and interdimensional travel. The legend spread through zines, mail art, bulletin boards, and early internet culture, often described as one of the first alternate reality games. Today, treat Ong’s Hat as a drive-through legend rather than a preserved ghost town.
Link: https://eerieescapesbook.com/eerie-escapes-blog/spooky-new-jersey-road-trip/ [https://eerieescapesbook.com/eerie-escapes-blog/spooky-new-jersey-road-trip/]
Birds of a feather
“In his 1977 nonfiction book, Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati, Wilson elaborates:
[The underground press was] intensely gullible and eager to believe all manner of . . . conspiracy theories, the weirder the better. Most Discordians, at this time, were contributors to underground newspapers all over the country. We began surfacing the Discordian Society, issuing position papers offering nonviolent anarchist techniques to mutate our robot-society [. . .] Along with this we planted numerous stories about the Discordian Society’s aeon-old war against the sinister Illuminati. We accused everybody of being in the Illuminati—Nixon, Johnson, William Buckley, Jr., ourselves, Martian invaders, all the conspiracy buffs, everybody.
We did not regard this as a hoax or prank in the ordinary sense. We still considered it guerilla ontology.
My personal attitude was that if the New Left wanted to live in the particular tunnel-reality of the hard-core paranoid, they had an absolute right to that neurological choice. I saw Discordianism as the Cosmic Giggle Factor, introducing so many alternative paranoias that everybody could pick a favorite, if they were inclined that way. I also hoped that some less gullible souls, overwhelmed by this embarrassment of riches, might see through the whole paranoia game and decide to mutate to a wider, funnier, more hopeful reality-map.”
LINK: https://evergreenreview.com/read/donald-trumps-operation-mindfuck/ [https://evergreenreview.com/read/donald-trumps-operation-mindfuck/]
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