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Bloody hell! This is raw and powerful. All this only truly opened out to me fairly recently, while I was writing a biography pf a guy who was in the middle of the London scene in the sixties. He'd contacted me because I was working on a book about what went on with The Beatles, and through him I got to talk with a good few people who were at the centre of things at the time. Not ACTUIALLY at the centre of things, but being the in crowd and the beautiful people, and carrying out orders on the ground, intentionally or unawares. Scary.

I did go to the funeral of one of my interviewees, with royal guests and speeches by the Gettys and tea afterwards at Christie's but it was all so frightfully civilised and you'd never have guessed what they were involved in... This stuff you are talking about though - being in a car with someone like that and realising what he was involved in. That's disturbing. And it always looks so drab and mind-numbing on the surface, as you say. (like Donald Pleasence in THE NEWS BENDERS). But the clue is in the mind-numbing, I guess. That's how it's done. That and the shocks. It was revealing to hear the epithets. Cowans, especially. That is revealing in a lot of ways and shows how much they know and how much they hide from us; what an incredibly twisted version of reality we have - history, geography, geopolitics to name but a few examples. Once that is shown to you, you cannot unsee it, and the entire charade becomes a sick joke.

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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

I've never understood this morbid fascination that people have for the royals.

Each and every one of them is a perverted, mindless, drivel-driven moron.

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