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Cassie Jaye, the day before I met her at the _Red Pill_ world premiere

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Today I resumed going door to door in my neighborhood with the Green Party of Philadelphia's anti-fracking petition (I started two weeks ago), which will be presented on Earth Day, 22 April, to the head of the DEP regional office in Norristown. I'm doing this as a way of getting to know my neighbors and increasing the visibility of  GPOP, and with a view to further developing my capacity for extroversion/overcoming social anxiety. While I've done door-to-door things a few times before, this time it's my own initiative.

I saw in the City Paper that Tuesday night, Woodmere Art Museum is screening The Ipcress File, a film from 1965 in which "Michael Caine stars as an intelligence agent investigating the brainwashing of British scientists." Seeing an opportunity to offer some information about the reality behind the fiction, I've printed out Margaret Singer's article "Thought Reform Exists" from ICSA so I can make copies to hand out.

1 comment:

stripey7 said...

I enjoyed the film, which was very reminiscent of the TV series _The Prisoner_, understandably enough. (Caine's character even looked a bit like Patrick McGoohan's.) I got to pass out about 25 copies of Singer's article, with many people appearing quite appreciative.