Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?

robkelk · 06-06-2017, 08:03 AM

Would this have literary sources, cinematic sources, or both?

There are quite a few 1950s and 1960s atomic-horror movies where somebody gained powers that nowadays we would call psionic, and was persecuted and hunted because of those powers - some of those movies ended up on MST3K. The "powers are evil" attitude also appeared on television shows of the time (for example, the second pilot episode of Star Trek).

06-06-2017, 08:03 AM	#11
robkelk Untitled Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: between keyboard and chair	Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice? Would this have literary sources, cinematic sources, or both? There are quite a few 1950s and 1960s atomic-horror movies where somebody gained powers that nowadays we would call psionic, and was persecuted and hunted because of those powers - some of those movies ended up on MST3K. The "powers are evil" attitude also appeared on television shows of the time (for example, the second pilot episode of Star Trek). __________________ Rob Kelk “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” – Bernard Baruch, Deming (New Mexico) Headlight, 6 January 1950 No longer reading these forums regularly.

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