People don't seem willing to accept it in spite of the overwhelming evidence to suggest it's the case, but you don't need to be a...
- bot
- paid shill
- ideologically captured
- or anything of the kind
... in order to act as an intelligence asset.
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Ah, RAW.
On the one hand, he's one of very few writers on this topic I respect. He didn't end up buying into his own hype.
On the other hand, he wrote most of his books right before I was born, so they exist to me in this weird liminal stretch between present and past.
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Somehow, something about that latter point has always made reading him deeply uncomfortable to me (and not because of the ideas!)
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Can't really explain it. It's just something weird and uncanny about the era.
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Can you recommend anything in the same vein that's more recent/doesn't make you uncomfortable?