Huffington Magazine Issue 51 | Page 12

AP PHOTO/MARK FARMER Enter and cause hurricanes — if by “logical to conclude” you mean, “left alone in a room filling with some sort of gas that makes your brain feel all wibbly-wobbly.” Normally, you’d see people sort of decrying the toxic influence of Jones and his ilk, but in a counterintuitive way, I like to see Jones’ continued existence as evidence of the fact that a certain baseline of charity and prosperity still exists in America, that accommodates the notion that one can be a crazy LOOKING FORWARD IN ANGST conspiracy nutter as your job, in the same way a few people can make their living as “ghost hunters.” Had Jones been an original Jamestown colonist, his colleagues would have probably greeted his ravings with a genial, “Shut up and farm something, nutsauce, we are dying.” For a little while, anyway. Then the Jamestown colonists would have just murdered him and, as we now know, eaten him. Because he knows the secrets! (The secret being that he is delicious.) “Yay, America,” is what I think I’m saying, okay? HUFFINGTON 06.02.13 The ribbon ceremony declaring the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) complete and operational on June 27, 2007, at the site near Gakona, Alas.