Behold a Pale Academician

Reading Galloway was at first like reading an academic William Cooper in that he subtly weaves in a kind of pseudo-conspiracy theory with his own interesting ideas about decentralization.  I’m specifically speaking here about his debatable claims that the internet spawned out of a United States military effort to avoid nuclear attack, and whether he is right or wrong about this point I could not say.  But what I can say is that the rhetorical power of statements such as these is interesting in and of itself, and I thought Galloway’s approach to the subject was provocative.

For those who aren’t aware, William Cooper is the author of a rather infamous book titled, Behold a Pale Horse.  In this book, Cooper claims to have been a member of the US Navy and to have gotten ahold of top secret information about governmental conspiracies.  His accusations were so wild to include things like accusations against Dwight D. Eisenhower, in which Cooper claimed that the president had signed a treaty with aliens…  OK, maybe I’m insulting Galloway by this comparison, but I in no way intend to.  I think there is a huge difference between the type of conspiracy theory within Behold a Pale Horse and the scholarship present in Galloway’s chapter “Physical Media,” but I think that both of these works have the potential to be equally anarchic, but in a good way.

Behold a Pale Horse was one of the books that brought the occult idea of the illuminati into the reading public’s attention.  Cooper strongly warns readers about the illuminati and the new world order, both of which represent a sort of heavily centralized control that could exert totalitarian force on a global scale—the threat of world domination.  So in a way, Cooper’s book is a push for decentralization in much the same way that Galloway’s work is.  I wonder what Galloway has been reading?