"If Larry Silverstein organized the events of 911, then he is the second Jew to walk on water in 2000 years. But if Bin Laden organized these things, then he is the first Arab ever to walk on water, such is the nature of the competition."
(Augustus Codex, Fragments from a Lost Meme Library)

Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned:
"Upon May 28th, 1881, near the city of Worcester, a fishmonger, with a procession of carts, loaded with several kinds of crabs and periwinkles, and with a dozen energetic assistants, appeared at a time when nobody on the busy road was looking. The fishmonger and his assistants grabbed sacks of periwinkles, and ran in a frenzy slinging the things into fields on both sides of the road. They raced to gardens, and some assistants, standing on the shoulders of other assistants, had sacks lifted to them, and dumped sacks on the high walls. Meanwhile other assistants, in a dozen carts, were furiously shoveling out periwinkles, about a mile along the road. Also, meanwhile, several boys were busily mixing in crabs. They were not advertising anything. Above all there was secrecy. The cost must have been hundreds of dollars. They appeared without having been seen along the way, and they melted away equally mysteriously. There were houses all round, but nobody saw them.
Would I be so kind as to tell what, in the name of some slight approximation to sanity, I mean by telling such a story?
But it is not my story. There was, upon May 28th, 1881, an occurrence near Worcester, and the conventional explanation was that a fishmonger did it. Inasmuch as he did it unobserved, if he did it, he did it as I have described, if he did it."

Preface

This essay is about how we attempt to organize our experience of anomalies in order to try and come to terms with them. The structure of our social and individual attempts to rationalize anomalies in terms of common explanations is examined. Also investigated are the methods used by human groups to build and apply psycho-social cloaking mystique in order to mask a world-structure whose order has been fundamentally subverted and disordered morally, physically, and psychologically by anomalies, from the mysterious UFO to the equally mysterious questions raised by the events of 911.
If we accept that almost all human experience is a matter of information-processing, then we must agree that different cultures manage anomalous experience in different ways. Our very own Military Industrial Entertainment Complex which emerged from the Industrial Revolution now manages information not in terms of “cold hard facts” (the language of yesteryear) but by means of powerful and deeply invasive media arrays, using whatever new technology becomes available.
The theories of the early postmodernist Charles Fort (The Book of the Damned), Marshall McCluhan (The Medium is the Message) and Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions), are particularly useful in analyzing situations where purely mechanistic analysis has proved to be useless.
Such situations include the UFO experience as well as the experience of 911.

The object here is to demonstrate in Fortean terms how we scale anomalistic experience in order to live with such a thing at all. This examination intends also to demonstrate that our reactions to the events of 911 and the UFO phenomenon have a lot in common.

For Part 1 click HERE

For Part 2 click HERE

For Part 3 click HERE