(First aired September 10, 2016)
The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children, by Ross E. Cheit, on the McMartin preschool case, the death of academic research, discrediting child witnesses and debunking psychological research, a mosh-pit of denial, complicity or ignorance, a foundational case in the witch-hunt narrative, Abbey Mann and Indictment, implicating Oliver Stone, Judy Johnson as “suspect personality,” the destabilizing nature of research, the original allegations at McMartin, parental reluctance to investigate, overstating the Satanic element, CII exaggerations, fantastic elements in the testimonies, an exponential disassociation from reality, a strategy for casting doubt, protecting the guilty, creating a smokescreen, social engineering in miniature, suppressing the medical evidence, an applied awareness of mimesis, the emergence of public awareness of child sexual abuse, a triggered society, assuming implausibility, organized deviance, the ignored tunnels, FBI documentation of tunnels, an inability to think in ambiguity, Levenda’s fallacy, morality plays left and right, mimesis, crowd control, social psychology, studying a sample of social engineering, a lever for mass control, fabricated behaviors, creating moral panic by faking moral panic, a psychiatric wall, a rising anger, perpetuating the exploitation, the cognitive problem of dual tragedies, a narrative without ambiguity, the irrelevance of adult denial versus the relevance of child testimony, abstract abhorrence and actual tolerance of child abuse, Woody Allen: national icon, a wall of denial, the pressure of seeing & the pressure of speaking, how surrender happens, the opening of surrender.
Special: The never-aired, unfinished Part Two.
Songs: “The Kommema and his Religion” and “Of the Lakes,” by SunWalker; “Technicolor dream,” by Cotton Club; “A Dance Under the Stars,” by D. Trevlon.
Social Engineering in Miniature (Re-Run, The Liminalist # 81)