Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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Mike Jay recounts the tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars who was confined to London's notorious Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the “Air Loom” — a terrifying machine whose mesmeric rays and mysterious gases were brainwashing politicians and plunging Europe into revolution, terror, and war.

Probably was all the Freemasons and their infiltration of government bodies and agencies —>

James Tilly Mathews air loom https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/11/12/illustrations-of-madness-james-tilly-matthews-and-the-air-loom/

Judge Schreiber https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Paul_Schreber

John Nash - brilliant mathematician who belived government agents were harassing him https://www.princeton.edu/news/2015/05/27/tragic-meaningful-life-legendary-princeton-mathematician-john-nash-dies

Nilometer in James Bridle’s chapter “Secrecy” in The New Dark Age https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/978683/view/view-of-the-nilometer-cairo-egypt-1802

The Paranoid Style https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics