[UA] Random thought thing.

[Doug Stalker]

Joe Iglesias wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:48:10   Doug Stalker wrote:
> >I recommend Robert Anton Wilson's "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies,
> >Cults, and Cover-Ups"
> >It is a very broad, very shallow look at conspiracies.  Excellent for use as a
> >roleplaying source, and lots of fun to read.  It is less about real
> >conspiracies, and more about what people think about conspiracies.
>
> It's worth noting that RAW evidently came across a Mage: the Ascension homepage and took it at face value.  Still, it's a pretty good book.
>

He may have done this on purpose; several of the conspiracies he includes are things I "know" to have originated as fiction or as a joke.

Just remember any role-playing settting that appears contempery to ordinary people is a perfectly valid theory of what the world is really like.  UA, World of
Darkness, CoC, OtE would all appear mundane to someone not involved in the strangeness going on.  If your job to to hide the existance of magic from ordinary
people, what better way than to present it as fiction?  Then whenever something supernatural happens, it's likely to be attributed to people that are taking their
LARPing too seriously instead of people working real magic.  And when someone says "John Tynes is head of the Illuminati"  it's easier to discredit when it's
common knowledge he is just a writer whose work involves the (fictional) occult.

 - Doug


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