"This is not a dress rehearsal for the apocalypse."

[billbuckhead]

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."
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"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)

My Mom thinks Bush is the anti-Christ. It could be.

[billbuckhead]

1. "today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured"

"..today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power."<10>

<http://www.techgnosis.com/pkdnet.html>

I'm searching for some deeper meaning in all this lying and bogus symbolism going on.

[Mnemosyne]

2. The old Pope supposedly questioned if

* was the one who could not be named. Wish I could find the link.

[billbuckhead]

3. "Reality is becoming more like a Philip Dick novel all the time."

"The Empire Never Ended"

Philip Dick was a master of capturing the paranoid sense of reality that pervaded American society during the Cold War. In Dick's universe, for any mystery that may be explained by multiple scenarios, it is always the most extreme, the most paranoiac possibility that's the actual one. This is part of what drives his creativity and makes his novels interesting.

There are many reasons why this site is named after Dick, and one is that the peculiarly American, paranoid sensibility Dick captured in his novels has not left us. The Cold War has been replaced with the War on Terror, and in a perpetual war in which our very existence is supposedly at stake and in which those in power may be said to have questionable motives, one gets the sense that all (and I mean all) possibilities are on the table.

Take, for example, conspiracy theories regarding 9/11. There are those who suspect that, at the very least, some in the Bush administration had foreknowledge of the attacks and did nothing to stop them. They saw them as instrumentally valuable for justifying a necessary military build-up in the Middle East -- the requisite "new Pearl Harbor" that the Project for a New American Century's report on "Rebuiliding America's Defenses" (pdf) conceived as necessary for initiating a swift transformation of the military in all its aspects (not only increased spending and improved technology, but also "forward basing" and "presence" beyond US borders; see p. 50-1 in the report).
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[Mnemosyne]

6. Do ya' think I have delusions of

PNAC? Also, I am not a christian and don't believe in the buy bull, though I was tricked by it when much younger. I consider * an anti-christ, just that way, he is the complete antithesis of a christian.

PNAC exists and many people more educated than I firmly believe that 9/11 was MIHOP.

Your point is taken, but maybe you should stop trying to be superior and look at the evidence. It's not a theory if evidence exists.

If I took your point wrong, excuse me. Otherwise...

[billbuckhead]

7. I'm just pointing out the endless Potemkin village nature

of our media driven reality. I firmly believe that Bushco is highly involved 9-11 and other coverups. At this point, I think many of the "conspiracy" therories are true.

"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"

[Mnemosyne]

8. Thanks for clarifying that Bill,

guess I was tired and touchy after posting about the 4 deaths from airborne bacteria and then nothing new was learned and it was locked as if I was wrong. I'm glad to hear others are seeing what I noticed about 9/11 on that day.
Sorry I was ornery. I wish I was more eloquent, but I am having memory problems and words seem to forsake me many days.
V

[fighttheevilempire]

4. Is this it?

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen04222003.html

Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs, and his constant references to "evil doers," in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations - the anti-Christ. People close to the Pope claim that amid these concerns, the Pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in the New Testament. Before he became Pope, Karol Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel." The Pope, who grew up facing the evils of Hitler and Stalin, knows evil when he sees it.

[Mnemosyne]

5. That's the one. Thanks. n/t