Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?

Blue Ghost · 06-06-2017, 03:05 AM

A real life example are people who are legally declared schizophrenic, with a typical symptom being that they believe their minds are being read with "microwave" technology. Ergo crazies who wear tin foil hats.

The truth of the matter is that it's a psychiatric technique to discover why someone is acting out by drugging them up. You can get a subject to talk in their sleep about their daily thoughts, and toss it back in their face in casual conversation. The cumulative effect is that they believe they have no privacy (which they don't due to doctor and/or court order).

It's actually a facet of Traveller, as it seems to have riffs on security and law enforcement themes as seeds for adventures. So called "psionics" stemming from this practice.

06-06-2017, 03:05 AM	#11
Blue Ghost Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Spinward Marches	Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice? A real life example are people who are legally declared schizophrenic, with a typical symptom being that they believe their minds are being read with "microwave" technology. Ergo crazies who wear tin foil hats. The truth of the matter is that it's a psychiatric technique to discover why someone is acting out by drugging them up. You can get a subject to talk in their sleep about their daily thoughts, and toss it back in their face in casual conversation. The cumulative effect is that they believe they have no privacy (which they don't due to doctor and/or court order). It's actually a facet of Traveller, as it seems to have riffs on security and law enforcement themes as seeds for adventures. So called "psionics" stemming from this practice.