DeMeo
is now in his 60s, close to normal retirement age,
so he is in the twilight of his career and so far has not yet set up
anything like a organization to carry on after him. When he dies there
will be nothing left of his life work except
stuff on the internet. If he was not such an egotist he would have long
since formed an organization and have been training successors. In
this, as in all things, he is following in the tracks of his master and
copying Reich's mistakes.
He
also has not really accomplished anything much towards his life-long
goal of rehabilitating Reich's reputation and making orgonomy
respectable. The vast majority of the public has never even heard of
Reich and most of those who have, especially those with the most
education, and most especially those with training in science or
medicine, think Reich was a crackpot and orgone the sick
fantasy of a sexual pervert who tried to sell it as a fake cancer cure.
That image is not going to change no matter how many books DeMeo writes
saying otherwise. And there is ZERO chance of the orthodox scientific
community ever accepting orgone, bions, cloudbusting, etc. no matter
what evidence is submitted. It is just too different from the direction
of modern science.
So,
looking ahead 50 years to the state of orgonomy at that time, all I can
see to expect is more of what we see today. Some pseudo-organization
like the ACO may still exist, but will be relatively unknown to the
general public. A small handful of
therapists will be doing Reichian therapy on a small number of wealthy
patients, a few dedicated advocates insisting orgone is real and Reich
was a scientist, a large number of idiots playing with cloudbusters in
their backyards and causing atmospheric chaos, and a small underground
sub-culture of conspiracy theorists, cranks, mystical types and
paranoids who think there was some secret plot to silence Reich and the
government is secretly controlling the weather. By that time the story
of Reich's life will probably have morphed out of all recognition and
more elements may have been added that we cannot foresee now.
And
the state of the world will not be any different from what it would
have been if Reich had never existed except for the environmental damage
done by ignorant cloudbuster operators playing with the toy Reich
invented for them. That will be the most important legacy of Reich, a
weapon of mass destruction in the hands of any fool with a few hundred
dollars to spend on a cheap simple gadget that gives anyone the power to
ruin a sizable chunk of the planet and kill thousands of unsuspecting
people who have no idea their floods and droughts were caused by
anyone.
So if anyone remembers Reich as anything other than a crackpot
selling fake cancer cures in another 50 years, it will be as the inventor of a means of mass murder.
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