I had a sort of epiphany the other day. It was like stepping through to the other side of the mirror and finally understanding what is happening in the United States and a good part of the rest of the world. I would like to share it with you.
Read on if you are interested.
So…you say that you do not understand how the people who control this system could allow such epidemic fuckups to take place on an almost daily basis?
You watch TV and see poisonous foods being massively advertised as what you should eat?
Glossily produced spiels for drugs so poisonous that a good part of the ad must contain a voiceover listing its negative effects?
You are daily bombarded with fear-producing news about the ongoing dangers of terrorism and disease, yet the very forces that are supposed to protect you from those forces are quite plainly totally incompetent?
Is that what’s bothering you, bunky?
Well, lissen up.
Eddie Lawrence. The Old Philosopher.
Eddie Lawrence had it all figured out way back in 1956.
Bet on it.
So did William Burroughs.
A technique for producing events and directing thought on a mass scale is available to anyone with a portable tape recorder or a car to transport recorders. The basis of this technique is Waking Suggestion first used by Doctor John Dent of London who also introduced the Apomorphine treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. Waking Suggestion is the technique used in playback of pre-recorded tapes in the street, cocktail parties, bars, stations, airports, parks, subways, political rallies, theatre intermissions etc.
People do not hear consciously the taped suggestions because their attention is directed towards something else: crossing the street, catching a train, listening for plane call, listening to speaker, looking at TV, talking to companions.
The volume of the tape is adjusted to street sounds, speech level and so forth. A well constructed suggestion tape will have pre-recorded street sounds or whatever cut in according to the location…Any suggestion tape is made more effective if it contains contradictory commands. Stop. Go. Wait here. Go there…
These commands are constantly being imposed by the environment of modern life. If for example your suggestion tape contains the phrase: “Look at that light in front of you…. STOP.. Stay here …. Go…Be over there,” and is played back to people waiting at a stop light THEY ARE FORCED TO OBEY THE SUGGESTION YOU ARE MAKING. Its like giving someone a sleeping pill without his knowledge and then suggesting sleep.
Any contradictory suggestion at the unconscious level produces a moment of disorientation during which your suggestions take effect.
Furthermore, contradiction suggestions are an integral function of human metabolism ….. “Sweat, Stop Sweating, Salivate, Stop Salivating.”
William Burroughs -“Brion Gysin Let The Mice In”
“Stop. Go. Wait here. Go there…”
“Any contradictory suggestion at the unconscious level produces a moment of disorientation during which your suggestions take effect.”
Yup.
Sound…familiar?
It oughta.
More:
Any number of reactive commands can be inserted in advertisements, editorials, newspaper stories. Such commands are an integral part of the modern industrial environment: Stop. Go. Wait here. Go there. Come in. Stay out. Be a man. Be a woman. Be white. Be black. Live. Die. Be your real self. Be somebody else. Be a human animal. Be a superman. Yes. No. Rebel. Submit. RIGHT. WRONG. Present. ASbsent. Open Closed. Entrance. Exit, IN. OUT, etc., round the clock. The controllers know what reactive commands they are going to restimulate and in consequence they know what is going to happen. “The Ticket That Exploded”
Want an outwardly more repressive regime?
Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Stop. Bush elected.
Want to give the impression of hope?
Go. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Obama elected.
And even those (s)elected do not know what is up.
That would ruin the play.
Suspension of disbelief is a necessary talent for any actor.
I mean…maybe some of the plotters are privy to the real deal.
Like Kissinger.
Cheney.
Rumsfeld.
In fact, Rumsfeld let Schroedinger’s cat out of the bag once.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.
–Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
Once too often, actually. That’s why he was let go. (Heard from Unca Donald recently? Nope.)
Glass Box
You know, it’s the old glass box at the–
At the gas station,
Where you’re using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can’t find it.
It’s–And it’s all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But–Some of you are probably too young to remember those–
Those glass boxes,
But–But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.
–Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefingA Confession
Once in a while,
I’m standing here, doing something.
And I think,
“What in the world am I doing here?”
It’s a big surprise.
–May 16, 2001, interview with the New York TimesHappenings
You’re going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don’t happen.It doesn’t seem to bother people, they don’t–
It’s printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.Everyone’s so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story’s there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven’t happened.All I can tell you is,
It hasn’t happened.
It’s going to happen.
–Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefingThe Digital Revolution
Oh my goodness gracious,
What you can buy off the Internet
In terms of overhead photography!A trained ape can know an awful lot
Of what is going on in this world,
Just by punching on his mouse
For a relatively modest cost!
–June 9, 2001, following European tripThe Situation
Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous

Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won’t see.
And life goes on.
–Oct. 12, 2001, Department of Defense news briefingClarity
I think what you’ll find, I think what you’ll find is,
Whatever it is we do substantively,
There will be near-perfect clarity
As to what it is.And it will be known,
And it will be known to the Congress,
And it will be known to you,
Probably before we decide it,
But it will be known.
–Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing
This is the answer to the question that you are not supposed to ask.
WHY?
Why?
Why the confusion, the ongoing contradictions??
The KYSS syndrome
To Keep You Simple, Stupid.
Stupid simple.
The only remaining question?
WHO?
I have previously suggested in these pages (not entirely in jest) that the only logical answer to such a question is that it is some sort of alien force.
Other-dimensional, perhaps, or simply from another part of the universe. Not necessarily “evil”. Just controlling. For its own reasons.
But maybe it’s simpler than that.
Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald pinned it, way back in 1926.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
We presently have a world population in excess of 6.75 billion people. Projections say 9 billion+ by 2040 if nothing changes. Most of the people who comprise that population are not “the very rich”. The very rich must control this population in one way or another if they are to remain very rich. And, being very rich, they have access to control systems such as the hypnomedia and can hire the best of the best to explain it all to them.
Can’t kill enough of the peonage to make things safer or easier. Can’t rip them off to the point where they can’t fight back either. Not any more you can’t. As can be plainly seen by the quite successful ongoing Islamic anti-Western movement, people get mad when they are killed or ripped off, and them injuns gots some serious weapons, now.
Cain’t just nuke the bastids, neither. It fucks up the environment. No sense being very rich if you can’t go outside or live in Sri Lanka should you so desire.
Control is the only answer.
But…how?
How to go about the control process.
And there you have it.
Confuse the poor, stupid peasants. (That means you, podna. Bet on it.)
Is that what’s bothering you, bunky?
Well…instead of simply keeping on keeping on…keeping on the goddamned television set, keeping on reading the newspapers and the newsmags, etc.
Never giving up, never giving up, never giving up…
The ship…
I respectfully suggest three things to y’all:
NEWSTRIKE!!!
MEDIASTRIKE!!!
and
CULTURESTRIKE!!!
We have been brainwashed into thinking that “an informed public” is a viable option, a way to combat those who wish to control us.
Well…maybe once upon a time that was a truth, a possibility, but today?
It is a disinformed public that is the median.
Bet on that as well.
Think about it.
You be bettah off if you do.
Bet on it.
Later…
AG
P.S. More Burroughs.
From Ah Pook Is Here-Control
At this time I put some questions to control. A word about this control. Some years ago in London I contacted two computer programmers who purported to represent something that called itself CONTROL, allegedly from the planet Venus. CONTROL will answer any queston for one dollar. You give your questions to the programmers who feed it into a computer some way and out comes the answer. So these are the actual questions that I sent in with my dollars and the answers I got back from CONTROL whoever or whatever CONTROL may or may not be.
Question:If CONTROL’S control is absolute why does CONTROL need to control?
Answer: CONTROL NEEDS TIME.
Exactly- CONTROL needs time in which to exercise control just as DEATH needs time in which to kill. If DEATH killed everyone at birth or CONTROL installed electrodes in their brains at birth there would be no time left in which to kill or control.
Question: Is CONTROL controlled by its need to control?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Why does CONTROL need “HUMANS” as you call them (Your knowledge of the local dialects leaves literacy to be desired.)
Answer: Wait.
Wait. Time. A landing field. The Mayans understood this very well. Mr. Hart does not. He thinks in terms of losers and winners. He will be a winner. He will take it all.
Make one think, doesn’t it?
One never knows.
Do one?
Fats Waller
Yup.
Das right, Mr. Waller.
Das right.
It makes one think.
Don’t it.
As you wish…
AG
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Except … it fails YOU!
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
Good one, Arthur.
I don’t know about Venus, but things do change here and there if we do the work.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report.
Arthur, subliminal advertizing or suggestion has been debunked. The Unconscious as a world out of awareness that motivates are every act has been debunked, as has repression and even the favored baby of the movie industry for a while, dissociation, which made for great movie scripts about multiple personalities.
But it is good to see you around anyway.
It’s been “debunked”. eh?
By whom?
You swallow that “debunking?”
I’m debunking the debunkers.
I see it. It is all over tthe culture.
You don’t?
Hmmmm….
You been bunked.
That’s what I think.
Keep on swallowing dat bunk, bunky.
At least you’ll never be lonely.
The very use of the word “debunk” betrays your unconscious media consumption.
Nice.
Bunk on…
AG
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For movie theaters as marketing tool, subliminal messaging has been banned. However, AG speaks about a general practise to influence the viewer and listener.
In a recent study done at University College London (UCL), volunteers watched a series of words that each flashed across a computer screen for only a fraction of a second – too quickly for the viewer to consciously “see.” The words were either positive (cheerful, flower, peace), negative (agony, despair, murder) or neutral (box, ear, kettle).
Participants were then asked to identify whether or not the word was “emotional.” Researchers found that when participants correctly identified a word as emotional, accuracy was much higher with the negative words (77 per cent) than with the positive ones (59 per cent).
(Those results decreased to 64 and 50 per cent accuracy, respectively, when the margin of time the word spent onscreen was decreased from 33 milliseconds to 17 milliseconds.)
Beware of its impact on terror attacks by Al Qaeda on the U.S. UCL delivered several Islamic terrorists, including most recently Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
Speaking of the movies and (not-so-)subtle messaging to influence viewers, in the summer of 2008 we went out to the movies, and we stunned by the number of movie trailers (and movies) glorifying war and fighting ‘terrorist’, and joining the army. There were also straight up military recruitment ads show along with the trailers.
Nothing subliminal about the message they were trying to send, and creepy that the military and the entertainment industrial complexes were working together to achieve it.
Check this out as well…
I live in working class NYC. That is…da Bronx. And I spend a great deal of time on the subways. So here are all these kids wearing amazingly loud earphones while riding the subway, cruising around in cars surrounded by blasting music. And what does the music say? Besides the bad-enough fact that it is totally artificially produced by synthesizers and other digital tools and thus does not have a spark of humanity left in it? It says “Fuck them bitches.” Fuck up anybody who opposes your most base desires in any way whatsoever.
Over and over and over and over again.
Loud as a motherfucker.
Clomp clomp clomp.
Zombie time.
And then it’s headline time when one of the products of this particular hypnosystem wacks out.
The real message here?
It’s certainly not “Don’t let your children grow up to be culturally hypnotized into totally insane, suicidal hostility.” This fool only got off two rounds because he held the damned gun sideways…rap video style…and it jammed.
The real message?
This is not some kind of “subliminal” plot…it’s right out there in the open.
Hiding in plain sight.
And if this kind of result was not desired by those who run this system, then the section of the so-called entertainment industry that produces this particular style of hypno-hype would be closed down in the bat of an eye.
I mean…what? Do you think that the people at the top of the money period are fucking stupid?
Please.
lemmetell you something.
Try…just try…to produce a major film in which say a potential presidential or business leader assassin is made into a hero.
Try to distribute a rap vid where an al Queda/terrorist/urban US youth conection is made with heroic implications.
Good luck.
People like Shergald are deaf, dumb and blind to this simple idea. They have been hype-hypnotized into total denial of the most plainly obvious facts.
He writes:
Deep.
In a New York Times Book Review/New York review Of Books, old-left, shallow-as-can-be kind of way.
The hype ives on both sides of the intellectual aisle.
Bet on that as well.
You want to be horrified?
Tune into some of the mixed martial arts shows. The glorification not only of violence…and this is coming from a man who studied self-defensive martial arts for years and has no compunctions whatsoever about using deadly force in defense of myself and others if no other possibility for survival exists…the glorification of violence and the military on these shows is nothing short of astounding.
Just listen to the network news for all you need to know on the subject.
Never forget the run-up to the invasion of Iraq as well. It was rather crudely done…the media have come a long way in this regard over a span of less than 10 years…but it was very effective. Literally hundreds of military and (supposedly) ex-military “experts” blathering on about the necessity of war, balanced by an occasional frumpy looking nun or frazzle haired 50-ish ex-hippie talking about “peace in our time.”
The run-up to Obama’s (s)election was equally plain. The Palin/McPain clown circus vs. the 2nd coming of Jesus himself.
Now…if it suits the purposes of the real controllers to take Obama down and replace him with someone else, the same game will ensue, only with different casting.
Watch.
The control system in place in the United States is the most effective one ever devised. It makes Goebbels’ efforts look childish and it dwarfs even the most effective mind control of all time, the multi-century run of the Roman Catholic Church.
It is awesome in its power to cloud men’s minds without appearing to even exist to most of them.
Ask a fish about water?
Bet on it.
It is the surrounding environment in which one swims.
Most of us do not even consider the very air we breathe unless it makes itself known to us by smelling bad or otherwise functioning inefficiently. We just suck it in and go about our business.
All except the yogis, of course. Many of whom spend years learning how to breathe consciously.
Well…this hypno-culture is the same thing on a different level.
We must learn to breathe on that level in a conscious manner as well.
Shergald?
Deep.
In a shallow kind of way.
AG
My point exactly, Arthur.
There’s no subliminal shit going on of any effect or importance if it were effective. It’s all out in the open. The violence!
A haiku for you this morning, while you remain barricaded in your apartment.
A rabbit prances over the snow
Stops
He looks at me
I at him
Walk on Arthur. It’s life.
and
Oh yes.
Tell me about it.
AG
It’s all about providing enough mindless distractions in the form of shyt music, violent video games, and movies from which to license more of the same crap from to keep people from thinking. You can do it openly, no need for any attempt at subtlety – people eat this crap up. And then, since the folks at the top of the entertainment industry are also running the news racket (Time Warner, etc anyone?), you can just keep running an endless feedback loop of your own particular brand of crap for the masses to absorb on every level.
And trust me, here in upper white bread suburbia, the same tricks work as well as they do in your neighborhood. They just might involve slightly different ‘music’…
Oui, never accept any psychological finding until it has been replicated at least 4-5 times. Unfortunately, psychologists are so well known for experimenter bias that it has become a old topic of methodological study.
Here you have a finding that holds up at 17 miliseconds of stimulation, that’s 17/1000s of a second. I don’t know the study, but did it control for stimulation given at 0/1000s of a second? I suggest that the result at this level would be even smaller but significant. There is also the issue of after-stimulation, when the stimulated retina retains the perception for considerably longer that the length of the physical stimulation. E.g., if you poke me in the ribs for 1 second or 17/1000s of a second, I will still feel something on both occasions.
It’s the last refuge of the true believer: debunk the debunder.
Well I sit here this morning as a debunked debunker knowing full well that we and my kind shall debunk again, because we know that this world will be a better place when we can get rid of the deluded anti-science literati, the know-it-alls with second rate English degrees.
And I am quite proud of that fact.
Ain’t about “second-rate”.
I stepped away from the Harvard/Yale hype axis when I was 16 years old. I had the grades, too.
Two notes from Charlie Parker said more to me than the entire output of the academic world. They still do.
Further, your own syntax is so…clunky…that I fear for your mental capacities.
I really do.
Been tested recently?
Y’oughta.
Check it out.
“…debunk the debunder?”
“…we and my kind shall debunk again?”
And best of all…
“…this world will be a better place when we can get rid of the deluded anti-science literati, the know-it-alls with second rate English degrees?”
Get rid of them?
Hmmmm…
How do you plan on doing that, Shergald?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Really.
I see vast intellectual internment camps on the horizon.
Nice, ol’ fella.
Very nice.
Wake the fuck up.
AG
Wise move, to Charlie Parker, that is. Just don’t believe everything you read, and you are a reader, a self-taught literati, degrees or no degrees.
Another kaiku.
Bang, bang, bang
Bang, bang
Bang
(silence)
shergald
Just a postscript: loved the diary. Maybe “the poor” will again find their way into our radar. Voting for Nader just hasn’t worked.
They allow a “Nader” to act like an emergency valve on a pressure cooker. It bleeds off and redirects some of the excess energy. Were he to actually have a shot at winning, he would be stopped.
One way or another.
There are no real choices, Shergald. They have it totally covered.
No choices until the system truly breaks down, anyway.
And if that happens, the “choices” are all going to be very painful.
I personally hope that this system does not break down. I believe that Barack Obama…a very intelligent, perceptive and essentially well-meaning man whose early life on the outside looking in gave him a finely focused view of how things are really done here…knows full well what is gong on and is doing the best that he can manage to do with an eye towards moderating the negative aspects of this system as it stands.
And…sadly…I believe that he is going to fail in that attempt.
The very rich are too rich to be controlled, and their primary job…no matter how they might gussy it up in philosophical terms…is to continue to dominate. If that means eliminating the opposition through famine, war, pestilence, simple brainwashing or any other set of tactics, then that is precisely what they are gong to try to do.
God help humanity if anyone ever comes up with a truly clean weapon of mass destruction, one that kills people and leaves the infrastructure and environment acceptably undamaged.
God help us all.
AG
Your pleas for human kind are appreciated.
If not Nader, then try Kucinich and become part of the minority. Well, I guess you are that already. Obama has the force, now if he will only use it.
Liked the rabbit poem.
arthur, i have never agreed with your posts in the past, but this one is very good, and sharply perceptive.
good onya.