Current Events Have Surpassed 'The Prisoner'

[number6]

Anonymous

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/130204theprisoner

>Current events bear an uncanny resemblance to the 1960s plot of The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan.

What a difference thirty years made in my reaction to this series. When it first aired, I purposed to decipher hidden themes as one might in a novel. Today, a DVD screening resulted in...pure laughter! The parallels with today are so obvious as to attain comedy.

Everything's there: rigged, meaningless elections, group consensus, fake Village news, pervasive surveillance, mind control, command orders telexed from shadowy off-shore power pyramids, false-flag dissident stings, evil medical procedures, star-chamber pseudo-justice based on "the rules," secret elite control bunkers. And yet the daily proclamation is to be happy and "mutual" in a crayon-colored paradise.<


be seeing you, in the the village / number6

[pinto]

1. but, that would be telling

[villager]

2. so will progressive activists be hammer...

...or anvil?

Be seeing you later...

[pa28]

3. You missed the part about "orange alerts"

I laughing about this very thing the other day. Who is "number 1" anyway?

[non sociopath skin]

4. There's quite an irony here ...

.. in that McGoohan is/was a man of the far right who famously devised "The Prisoner" as a "warning" of what a "liberal" concentration camp would look like in the future.

The Skin

[number6]

5. had no Idea what McGoohan's politics were...

but he was the coolest guy I saw on TV
Secret Agent Man -- The Prisoner
Wild Wild West was pretty cool too
James West Artimus Gordon

the new movie( Wild Wild West)- (recently) made sucked...

[villager]

6. the far right?

Seems more like politics in a Randolph Bourne vein -- skeptical of state power, from the get go...