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...until one day in 1960, when he met Thorpe at a stable where he was working in Oxfordshire. As Scott related it, Thorpe somewhat inexplicably told him to come to him in London if he ever needed anything. A year later Scott, then 21 and reeling from a nervous breakdown, visited Thorpe at his office at Westminster. Thorpe, then 32 and a rising young bachelor M.P. from North Devon, drove Scott to his mother's house in Surrey saying that there they could "talk about things more easily." That night, said Scott, Thorpe sent him off to bed with...
...success of cults today is based partly upon an edifice of unhappy sociological cliches: the breakdown of the family and other forms of authority, the rootlessness and moral flabbiness of life...
Jones himself, of course, provides the most fascinating figure in the debris of his cult, but the details of his psychotic life only provide surface information. What is not so obvious, at least at first glance, is the significant breakdown of values that could alienate nearly 1000 people so completely that they would follow a madman to their graves. Something is lacking, something America either could not supply or those unfortunates were incapable of receiving. In addition to this perceived societal lapse, there is the uncomfortable confluence at Jonestown and its aftermath of several things that typify the culture...
Conrail inherited such a hodgepodge of worn-out equipment that even after $600 million in repairs, much of the rolling stock is still unreliable. At any moment, 12.4% of Conrail's 140,000 freight cars are either laid up for repairs or on the verge of breakdown...
...giant energy companies, who seek the vast quantities of coal and uranium buried underneath the remaining Indian land. Indian workers, for example, have been sent to work in the uranium mines for years without adequate warning of, or protection from, the deadly radioactive gas radon and its breakdown products present in those mines. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, those workers face an increased chance of getting lung cancer...