Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit'

One day in 1951 while meditating beside the world's largest free-standing boulder in the Mojave desert, George van Tassel was transported aboard a spaceship orbiting the Earth. In the 50s, visiting aliens were not evil predatory Martians as envisaged in HG Wells's War of the Worlds, but all-wise Venusians who sought to improve us feeble Earthlings.

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