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Eldridge Currie
Burnaby, BC

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> 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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>
> Cheers, Steve...
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