Left of center Jewish writer, comic, TV producer and presenter.

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Author of THEM: Adventures With Extremists and presenter of Secret Rulers Of The World. Learning Fundamentalist describes a brief meeting with Richard Drake. Bohemian Grove and its left/right nemeses Mary Moore and Alex Jones also mention Jon. And after all that, Jon Ronson Does Alpha and I only learn about it from the Evening Standard.

Jon's latest Channel4 series The Crazy Rulers Of The World finished forty minutes ago, followed by the normal crazy chat room session, which just ended. When someone asked Jon if he was worried that his work would attract Conspiracy Theorists he typed (presumably dictated):

The people that come to my events are split down the middle between secular liberal rationalists and conspiracy theorists. When I first realised that I was surprised but I'm very pleased because I think it shows that the stuff I do isn't sneering and laughing at people and that it attracts people on both sides of the fence.

I thought that a good summary of the man's strengths. (Sitting on the same fence, at times of "great moral crisis" such as the at-the-time very controversial Conspiracy theory about the secret extermination of the Jews in 1940s, is not so good. Hottest Part Of Hell and all that, as Churchill would say. But only God knows how any of us will respond in such a dreadful moment. For now my Open Letter To Jon Ronson stands. I take him to be a fool in the best sense.)

As for the series itself, I missed all but the last 40 minutes of 180. It had something to do with MK Ultra and occultic "remote viewing". Allen Dulles made an important, if brief, appearance, as he always seems to. I guess I'll read the book in due course, if only for old time's sake.

Jon may be shocked to be included in Conspiracy Theorists We Admire. But then irony can cut both ways.