Into the world of the other
Tiny Cracks (3)
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In the second part of
Tiny Cracks, I looked at conspiracy theories and noted that in polite liberal
society, admittance that there are real conspiracies is tantamount to whipping
your todger out at the dinner table. Only one thing is worse than talking about
conspiracies and that is talking about the supernatural. I don’t actually like that
term nor ‘paranormal’. Generally, the former is used by those who disparage the
concept and the latter by those who tend to believe in it.
I don’t fit into
either category and prefer to use the term, ‘Fortean’, named after Charles Fort.
Fort was a philosopher who collected thousands of scraps of newspaper cuttings
of anomalous events; events that made no sense in conventional terms but were
what he called ‘damned data’.
