KAOS & CONTROL
...A KARMIC DANCE OF OPPOSITES, and a nod to William Burroughs
“GET SMART” was created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks in 1965-1966. Were the TV Show’s creators telling us to get smarter?
The characters of Maxwell Smart, Agent 99, and the ‘Chief’ brought us much needed comic relief following the JFK assassination in Dallas. [a notable spy detail has to do with a secret serviceman who was ordered to stand down and leave the presidential limo’s guard just before the ‘Big Event’.]
The weekly ‘Get Smart’ series lampooned the spy genre when Mike Myers was just two years of age. This was long before the Austin Powers franchise would become the ultimate spoof on the ‘007’ movie genre. I’m wondering if Myers and his co-writers were aware of Klaus Schwab when they created ‘Dr Evil’ in 1997?
The WEF’s Klaus Schwab and SPECTRE’s own dark horse, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, are semi-mythical inventions and serve the purpose of maintaining a narrative. The real-life villain and psychopath (and egocentric pretender) works for the Rockefeller/Kissinger/Bilderberg agenda; and the other cinematic archvillain (portrayed by Donald Pleasence in the Sean Connery Bond flick) worked for the cinema’s ‘007’ narrative.
For the uninitiated, Ian Fleming was the author who was most successful in creating and cultivating the ‘007’ film genre in return for fame and a lifetime paycheck.
What was brilliant about ‘Get Smart’ was how it satirized the archvillain in the guise of Siegfried,’ of KAOS— while lampooning the White Hats in CONTROL; and all the while, symbolically (shhh) revealing the principles of control employed by the global master race—or just call them, “the Chosen People.”
Creating chaos as a daily menu item keeps the citizen worker class (now relegated to a subservient role as mindless ‘consumers’) teetering on the brink of uncertainty to the point of distraction. This constant distraction manifests as FEAR which takes on multiplicitous forms to include: homelessness, joblessness, loss of friends and family, and in general— alienation and displacement within the HERD-society. Simply put, it’s a Divide & Conquer playbook chapter.
In short form, a system of control uses the parameters of FEAR to such degree in order to ensure that we come to believe that poverty is a real thing—the Boogeyman in the dark—even when the planet naturally provides water-air-and food to eat.
Again—the creation of a steady stream of chaos, and its kindred cousin— confusion, is part of a diabolical formula that ensures the supremacy of the elites who control the money matrix and control the distribution of vital resources necessary for human survival.
The exceptions are the few remaining indigenous tribal peoples left on Earth, or possibly the Amish farmers. [Suffice to say—there is much we urbanized homo saps might learn from these two groups.]
I have often reflected on the fact that the tap water was poisoned with fluoride, and eventually, public water fountains vanished from sight. Just as the phone booths vanished. In my sense of logic—when we can only find safe ‘filtered’ water to drink by buying it in a plastic bottle (that is tainted with *BPA), we have conceded to a tyrannical system that turns a basic human need for survival into a survival paycheck con-game.
“THE LIMITS OF CONTROL” — WILLIAM BURROUGHS
I’ve taken the liberty to make edits to the 12 postulates—whittling a few of them down to their basic essence:
I
“There is a growing interest in new techniques of mind-control. It has been suggested that Sirhan Sirhan [RFK’s purported assassin] was the subject of post-hypnotic suggestion, as he sat shaking violently on the steam table in the kitch of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles while the as-yet unidentified woman held him and whispered in his ear.” “…Brainwashing, psychotropic drugs, lobotomy and other, more subtle forms of psychosurgery; the technocratic control apparatus of the United States has at its fingertips new techniques which if fully exploited could make Orwell's 1984 seem like a benevolent utopia.”
II
“Words are still the principal instruments of control. Suggestions are words. Persuasions are words. Orders are words. No control machine so far devised can operate without words…”
III
“A basic impasse of all control machines is this: Control needs time in which to exercise control. Because control also needs opposition or acquiescence; otherwise, it ceases to be control.” “…No psychological control is necessary, other than pressing buttons to achieve certain activations and operations.”
IV
“When there is no more opposition, control becomes a meaningless proposition. It is highly questionable whether a human organism could survive complete control. There would be nothing there. No persons there.”
“Life is will (motivation) and the workers would no longer be alive, perhaps literally.”
“The concept of suggestion as a complete technique presupposes that control is partial and not complete. You do not have to give suggestions to your tape recorder nor subject it to pain and coercion or persuasion.”
V
“In the Mayan control system, where the priests kept the all-important Books of seasons and gods, the calendar was predicated on the universal illiteracy since they operate through the mass media - a very two-edged control instrument, as Watergate has shown. Control systems are vulnerable, and the news media are by their nature uncontrollable, at least in Western society…” “…and remember, the Mayans had no neighbors to quarrel with they lose the ability to fight. In ‘The Mayan Caper’ I suggested that such a hermetic control system would be completely disoriented and shattered by even one person who tampered with the control calendar, upon which the control system depended more and more heavily as the actual means of force withered away.”
VI
“Consider a control situation: ten people in a lifeboat. two armed self-appointed leaders force the other eight to do the rowing while they dispose of the food and water, keeping most of it for themselves an doling out only enough to keep the other eight rowing. The two leaders now need to exercise control to maintain an advantageous position which they could not hold without it. Here the method of control is force - the possession of guns. Decontrol would be accomplished by overpowering the leaders and taking their guns. This effected, it would be advantageous to kill them at once.”
“So once embarked on a policy of control, the leaders must continue the policy as a matter of self-preservation. Who, then, needs to control others but those who protect by such control a position of relative advantage? Why do they need to exercise control? Because they would soon lose this position and advantage and in many cases their lives as well, if they relinquished control.” [no edits made here for clarity—the conclusion is profound and enlightening!]
VII
“Now examine the reasons by which control is exercised in the lifeboat scenario: The two leaders are armed, let's say, with .38 revolvers - twelve shots and eight potential opponents. They can take turns sleeping. However, they must still exercise care not to let the eight rowers know that they intend to kill them when land is sighted. Even in this primitive situation force is supplemented with deception and persuasion.”
“They [the tyrant-leaders] may also make concessions:
increase food and water rations. A concession of course means the retention of control - that is, the disposition of the food and water supplies. By persuasions and by concessions they hope to prevent a concerted attack by the eight rowers.”
VIII
“Actually they intend to poison the drinking water as soon as they leave the boat. If all the rowers knew this they would attack, no matter what the odds. We now see that another essential factor in control is to conceal from the controlled the actual intentions of the controllers. Extending the lifeboat analogy to the Ship of State, few existing governments could withstand a sudden, all-out attack by all their underprivileged citizens, and such an attack might well occur if the intentions of certain existing governments were unequivocally apparent.”
“…a modern government armed with heavy weapons and prepared for attack could wipe out ninety-five percent of its citizens. But who would do the work, and who would protect them from the soldiers and technicians needed to make and man the weapons? Successful control means achieving a balance and avoiding a showdown where all-out force would be necessary…”
IX
“All modern control systems are riddled with contradictions. Look at England. ‘Never go too far in any direction,’ is the basic rule on which England is built, and there is some wisdom in that. However, avoiding one impasse they step into another. Anything that is now going forward is on the way out. Well, nothing lasts forever. Time is that which ends, and control needs time.”
“Certainly the very wealthy are one of the most powerful control groups, since they are in a position to control and manipulate the entire economy.”
“Force, once brought in, subverts the power of money.”
“This is another impasse of control: protection from the protectors.”
“There is no longer anyplace to expand to - after hundreds of years, colonialism is a thing of the past.”
X
“There can be no doubt that a cultural revolution of unprecedented dimensions has taken place in American during the last thirty years, and since America is now the model for the rest of the Western world, this revolution is worldwide.”
“Another factor is the mass media, which spreads all cultural movements in all directions. The fact that this worldwide revolution has taken place indicates that the controllers have been forced to make concessions.
Of course, a concession is still the retention of control. Here's a dime, I keep a dollar. Ease up on censorship, but remember we could take it all back. Well, at this point, that is questionable.”
XI
“Concession is another blind. History shows that once a government starts to make concessions it is on a one-way street.”
“They could of course take all the concessions back, but that would expose them to the double jeopardy of revolution and the much greater danger of overt fascism, both highly dangerous to the present controllers”.
“The mass media has proven a very unreliable and even treacherous instrument of control. It is uncontrollable owing to its need for NEWS.”
“Any imposition of government censorship on the media is a step in the direction of State control, a step which big money is most reluctant to take.”
In conclusion…(I have printed XII without edits)
XII
“I don't mean to suggest that control automatically defeats itself, nor that protest is therefore unnecessary.
A government is never more dangerous than when embarking on a self-defeating or downright suicidal course”. [italics my own-RTT]
“It is encouraging that some behavior modification projects have been exposed and halted, and certainly such exposure and publicity should continue.”
“In fact, I submit that we have a right to insist that all scientific research be subject to public scrutiny, and that there should be no such thing as ‘top-secret’ research.”
William Burroughs—Born: February 05, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died: August 02, 1997, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Note to Americans:
“A government is never more dangerous than when embarking on a self-defeating or downright suicidal course.”
[SOURCE: “The Limits of Control” by William S. Burroughs, originally published in Semiotext(e): Schizo-Culture, vol. III, no. 2, 1978 eng7007 / BurroughsControl ]
https://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/control_by_william_burrou.php
One of your best. Will have to reread. Keep up the great work.