Philip K. Dick's Black Iron Subdermal Prison
By Wade Inganamort

As we slingshot into the 21st Century, it is becoming increasingly 
apparent that the governments and institutions that mold our minds 
have implemented a system from which we cannot escape. Are we really  
trapped in a prison with no doors or walls?

Consider the following from Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference, 
by Erik Davis:

In the excepts of the Exegesis reworked into the "Tractates Crytptica
Scriptura" that close the novel VALIS, Dick expresses the MIT 
computer scientist Edward Fredkin's view that the universe is composed 
of information. The world we experience is a hologram, "a hypostasis of 
information" that we, as nodes in the true Mind, process. "We 
hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is 
change in the content of information. This is the language we have lost 
the ability to read." With this Adamic code scrambled, both ourselves 
and the world as we know it are "occluded," cut off from the brimming 
"Matrix" of cosmic information.  

Instead, we are under the sway of the "Black Iron Prison," Dick's terms 
for the demiurgic worldly forces of political tyranny and oppressive social 
control. Rome is the eternal paragon of this "Empire," whose archetypal 
lineaments the feverish Dick recognized in the Nixon administration. 
Demonstrating that prisons, mental institutions, schools, and military 
establishments all share similar organizations of space and time, 
Foucault argued that a "technology of power" was distributed throughout 
social space, enmeshing human subjects at every turn. Foucault argued 
that liberal social reforms are only cosmetic brush-ups of an underlying 
mechanism of control. As Dick put it, "The Empire never ended." I would 
like to assert the possibility that the prison has always been under 
construction, and it gets closer to view as it nears completion.  

While the current administration continues to play "The Grand 
Chessboard" under the Orwellian facade of peace through war and 
freedom through slavery, we must ask ourselves: to what end? While 
some have compared Bush's tactics to those of Adolf Hitler, others 
feverishly argue that this is necessary to protect America's self 
interests. The prison-builders have always strived to coerce the 
citizenry into sacrificing liberty for pseudo-security." 

As H.L. Mencken observed: The whole aim of practical politics is to 
keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) 
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them 
imaginary.  

So now as we embark on a lifelong irrational "War against Terrorism", 
which comedian David Cross concluded is as feasible to win as a "War 
against Jealousy", and the CIA-ridden oil-soaked media monopoly 
continues to parrot the current Administration's macro-management 
of reality, some of the true prison-builders begin to emerge.  

Prison-building with fear

We, as humans, are scared of the unknown. The media frenzy of 
kidnappings a few months back, which served as a well-timed 
distraction to events that were conveniently sidelined, also 
served the prison guards and their prerogative: subdermal microchips.

Shortly after 9-11, in the wake of irrational reactionism, Applied Digital 
Solutions, parent company of Verichip, went on a flurry of an advertising 
campaign, asking everyone the Simpson's tagline: "Won't somebody 
please think about the children?". Andy Rooney came out on 60 
Minutes proclaiming; "I wouldn't mind having something planted 
permanently in my arm that would identify me.''  

This market tactic was paired with their "Get Chipped!" promotion, and 
the "Chipmobile", which is touring Florida Senior centers, prowling for 
Alzheimers patients who must get chipped "for their own safety". Soon 
deals were made with China, Mexico, and South Korea to perpetuate 
the meme that global slavery equals global safety.  

Just before the FDA ruled that Verichip is not a regulated medical 
device, Microsoft MapPoint announced a partnership with Verichip to 
"pinpoint the location of almost anything you want to trackuin real time. 
You can even receive critical information about body temperature, pulse, 
and more." The FDA then charged: "ADS's conduct flagrantly disregards 
FDA's prior comprehensive advice."  

Then in November the tune changed, from a medical device back to a 
location and tracking device, as a Washington forum debated the 
benefits and hazards posed by a new way of identifying people with a 
microchip implanted under their skin to replace conventional paper 
identification. Privacy advocates argued the microchip could spell the 
end of anonymity in the United States, particularly if authorities began 
requiring people to wear them to meet conditions of parole, employment 
or border crossings.  

As the prison is beginning to emerge and the thoughts and nightmares 
of writers of the past are birthed into existence, we embark on a new 
millennium, a new day in America.  

"This is not a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse. This is not a pseudo-
millenium. This is the real thing folks. This is not a test. This is the 
last chance before things become so dissipated that there is no chance 
for cohesiveness." -Terence McKenna (1946-2000)  

I would agree that at the time of this quote, we may have had a few 
more options. I believe that we have surpassed that now and there may 
be no turning back, no changing the direction of the ball once it has 
been thrown, and individually we must decide, Das Experiment-style, 
as Americans:  

Do we want to be the prison guards, the prisoners, or do we want to find 
a way off of the island?  

It's not a prison if you never try the door.

Visit Wade's fine website at http://www.libertythink.com. Wade can be 
reached at: valis{at}libertythink.com  

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