The decline in activity on the Reichian discussion lists is mainly
due to the breakdown in civility that resulted from the attempts of
certain people to control the lists. But also it is partly due to the
increasing re-definition of orgonomy from a field of science to a
conglomeration of conspiracy theories, political agendas, and personality
cult that turns off many people who come across it for the first time,
as well as long-term Reichians who remember fondly what orgonomy used to
be.
Anyone finding out about orgonomy for the
first time today, since they live in Internetland, will do a quick
search on Google, find a lot of misleading junk about UFOs, chemtrails,
secret government plots, meetings with Einstein, weather control,
magical orgone gizmos, "spirituality", and almost eveything else you
can imagine except the real science of orgonomy, as founded by Reich.
How can serious scientific work to discover more about how the world
works compete with secret plots and magic devices you can build at home
to fight the invaders from another universe?
As
for DeMeo, he has positioned himself as the de facto leader of
orgonomy, and one of his most important points is the anti-Islamic
campaign he has been waging for some years now. He thinks he is
continuing the social theories of Reich by doing so, thereby showing he
has no understanding of what Reich said. Under his leadership, orgonomy
has become just one of the many right-wing organizations supporting the
U.S. government agenda to invade and occupy every country in the Middle
East.
Conventional psychiatrists attending a
conference on orgonomy? That is a shock. But
conferences on orgonomy are not true conferences as the term is used in
scientific circles. A real scientific conference includes people on
both sides of any controversial issue, and they argue their points out in
front of the audience, and the best arguments are the ones that end up
being accepted.
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