Re: [CTRL] Conspiracist Jim Marrs Revealed

[Jenny Decker]

Hi Bill,     It's not Marrs' INTERPRETATIONS that are the problem, but in every simple biographic detail in this book Mars shows he is confused. He mistakes the name of universities, misinterprets the simple character of the official jobs that men in his book have, let alone their "secret" activities, gets birthdates, nation of origin, parents' names and generation, all wrong, every simple thing. In several places details show me what source book he used, yet he misunderstood crucial details of the narrative in his source and garbles them in his recounting. He shows himself to have become, at least in this book, very  careless about verifying his details, which much be accurate if the theories he builds ON these details are to stand. Instead, many of the details of his theories seem to turn upon his reading problems. If someone wrote a grand book reinterpreting the American Civil War, but when  you read it you found that Robert E. Lee had somehow become a native of China and the ancestor of Henry Lee, and the author seemed very credulous about this, using as "documentation" the vast number of Chinese surnamed Lee, would you trust his discernment and reasoning on other points?  What about if his book was full of these clunkers?     This book was published as a popular volume, designed for an audience whose life focues is not academic. There are a number of carefully written discussions of the New World Order and its details that are worth reading, and won't cheat the reader's hope to gain a larger understanding . I like Jim Marrs, and I regret that in its present form his book is not one of these. Jenny Decker ----- Original Message ----- From: William Shannon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Conspiracist Jim Marrs Revealed In a message dated 7/11/01 12:37:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rule by Secrecy, on the other hand, was so rife with misreadings of the original texts (which as an academic historian I have first-hand familiarity with), that most of its assertions are based on falsity, at least mistaken understanding. Well if you go by the traditional history books I suppose this would be correct, his deal is digging deeper and seeking alternative sources for the hidden history of our planet and in that regard I think Rule By Secrecy is a good, if rudimentary introduction to conspiracy theory and parahistory. Bill.