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Who do I Call?

2013-09-29 00:22:14.641538+02 by petronius 0 comments

A plaintive cry from Lileks.com (scroll down a bit). He somehow got on the mailing list for a crazy man, who is spinning out an increasingly bizarre conspiracy theory involving his ex-wife, the UN, and the Justice department. This fits into the category of personal craziness, as opposed to political craziness like Trutherisms of various flavors. But in view of characters like the Navy Yard shooter, who was being brainwashed by government microwaves, his question "What do I do with this? Who do you tell?" becomes very apropos. Even then Lileks wonders how crazy you can be if you can still imbed MP3 files in your postings.

One interesting side issue is that Lileks is very cagy about not giving any identifying information about his correspondent. Not to preserve the man's privacy, but to avoid giving any Googleable traces back to Lileks, lest he end up on the enemy list.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy moron Conspiracy ]

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