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"Yeah! | know a lot of politicians and more than a few news anchors that answer to that description already!" Hopper exclaims, peering cross—eyed through the rings of smoke he's puffed toward the pulsing fire. "It seems that all this time the secret government has led official science at the popular level into 'safe' lines of development, where the really advanced and revolutionary forms of the superscience that was already largely in the military's hands would be screened from view and go unsuspected by the vast majority." "Wait a minute, wait a minute." Hopper seems to explode like a pinelog popping in the fire, "how the hell does this all-powerful cryptic goddamn 'government' of yours manage to do all that, huh?" Stoned indignation to the superlative degree. "How do the 'authorities' manage to keep scientists from discovering things in the natural course of practicing their science? How do they manage to manipulate and control something that has to function intrinsically through the spirit of 'free inquiry'!" "Well hell no, that's different—everyone knows they've been hamstrung in a lot of ways by the arbitrary imposition of Communist doctrine, ‘dialectical materialism’ and all that. I suppose you're going to tell me that the free world governments have also imposed their version of restrictive doctrine all over the ivy of higher learning, the groves of capitalist academe..." "There it is," Jack pounces, "you just said it. Investigation always goes where the money flows. That's the kind of ‘doctrine' that keeps things in line in the free world. Funding, my friend. What line of inquiry is deemed /ucrative! What avenue of impartial academic pursuit does Congress and the regulatory valves of those steering committees designate as deserving of the grants, the big—buck subsidies? Do corporations and the utility companies really allow the unrestrained, impartially—subsidized development of free-energy resources even though the principles and working models were proven by people like Tesia early in the century? Or do they doctor the existing evidence, abridge important texts, confiscate papers, hire 'popularizers to streamline seminal theories such as Clerk Maxwell's original equations which possessed an important scalar component that just somehow doesn't show up in the sanitized standard produced by his 'interpreter' Oliver Heaviside." over, in calm 31 "It's just stuff that should be self-evident," Jack says with satisfied disdain. "You can even trace the changing position of the ‘unofficial’ power structure as it pulls the strings behind the scenes. I'll bet you didn't know that there was a terrific public surge of antigravity research in the early '50s, all of it right out in the open, newspapers and scientific magazines and all. It wasn't belittled back then...but you're probably too young to remember." 67 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm "I suppose you feel the Russian government has allowed its scientists free unbridled inquiry all these years..." "You don't have to get huffy," Hopper murmurs, the floating focus of his interest already dispersed as he folds containment, before the banking fire. "I remember all the '50s sci-fi movies about flying saucers and weird beings from other worlds," Hopper snorts in bemused reminiscence.