kdag,
IMHO, there are simply too many people, from too many backgrounds/walks of life describing the SAME experience for the g.s. phenomenon NOT to have some basis in reality.
I have friends from Eastern European countries who describe having experienced similar organized behaviors against their persons, or members of their families. I don't see how anyone would derive any benefit from making up stories about this, quite the contrary, so I am tending to believe.
One can, I think, debate the source of these behaviors, the organizing principle, but many experiences in my own life have informed me that group behavior is easily manipulated.
Additionally, on the surveillance thing, any PI can find at Radio Shack the technology to perform fairly advanced surveillance on others. My belief is, that if the technology is available, it will be used, appropriately and inappropriately. Human nature.
I would assume that the people describing their experiences on YouTube videos are past the point of caring about their reputations, and are leaving "bread crumb" trails, as well.
Finally, I am thinking that this phenomenon resembles in some ways the so-called "Satanic Panic" of the 80's, and is being similarly dismissed, or spun.
bakkagirl
IMHO, there are simply too many people, from too many backgrounds/walks of life describing the SAME experience for the g.s. phenomenon NOT to have some basis in reality.
I have friends from Eastern European countries who describe having experienced similar organized behaviors against their persons, or members of their families. I don't see how anyone would derive any benefit from making up stories about this, quite the contrary, so I am tending to believe.
One can, I think, debate the source of these behaviors, the organizing principle, but many experiences in my own life have informed me that group behavior is easily manipulated.
Additionally, on the surveillance thing, any PI can find at Radio Shack the technology to perform fairly advanced surveillance on others. My belief is, that if the technology is available, it will be used, appropriately and inappropriately. Human nature.
I would assume that the people describing their experiences on YouTube videos are past the point of caring about their reputations, and are leaving "bread crumb" trails, as well.
Finally, I am thinking that this phenomenon resembles in some ways the so-called "Satanic Panic" of the 80's, and is being similarly dismissed, or spun.
bakkagirl