Haha Lung & Christopher B. Prowant – 2001
Prowant and Lung have apparently penned a whole bunch of books
on the same subject, and if they are as badly written and researched as this
one, I don’t have much interest in looking at them. There doesn't seem to have been any editing applied
to the text, and high-school-level analogies, sloppy paragraph structure, and painful grammatical errors are extremely hard on the eyes and brain. Purporting to be a type of self-help book to –
depending on your needs – protect yourself from mind-control tactics or use
them upon others, it weakly draws comparisons with historical events that may
or may not have been influenced by techniques either borrowed from or just
coincidentally similar to those of the Ninja.
There is no original evidence or research presented to support the
authors’ claims, only sweeping conclusions based on total conjecture. Prowant and Lung reference only a couple of
sources, (including plugging their own previous books), and do so over and over
again until it becomes clear that we are stuck in a maze, since the inclusion
of any objective or scientific information would poke a big hole in the balloon
of the book’s logic. Its reasoning goes
something like this: the documented fact
that the US government once experimented on people with LSD means that we are
probably under constant bombardment from individuals and organizations wanting
to control our minds, not to buy products but to be literal zombies devoid of
self-determination. That’s it; that’s
the extent of the book's evidence. Sorry,
but that’s not original, it’s not good journalism, and it certainly isn't
science.
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