“The National Intelligence Council has begun a project that will help uncover the most important influences that will shape our world to the year 2020.”
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“However, Nixon’s weary world ignored the eschatological opportunity I thought my brother’s inspired fiddling with hyperspace had afforded. The world continued grinding forward in its usual less than merry way. There was only one small incident that might subsequently be construed, even within the framework of the schizoid logic that was my bread and butter then, to support my position. Unknown to me, a struggling, overweight SF writer, an idol of mine since my teens, discovered the next day that his house have been broken into, his privacy violated by the Other. How peculiar that on the first day of the new dispensation in my private reformist calendar, he had been burglarized by extraterterrestials the CIA or his own deranged self in an altered state. The torch had been passed, in a weird way the most intense phase of my episode of illumination/delusion ended right where Phil’s began.”
The Psychedelic Shakespeare Solution: I Understand Philip K. Dick
(via New World Disorder).
Looks like Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess was involved with the CIA’s MK-ULTRA project:
According to the anonymous source, Burgess became involved with the CIA while working as a Colonial Service education officer in Malaya in the 1950s.
There he became a party to trials for a mind-control process designed to trigger emotional responses in the brain using pain and pleasure ? the inspiration, it is claimed, for the chilling Ludovico Technique in A Clockwork Orange.
The Independent: CIA mind-control trials revealed as secret inspiration behind ‘A Clockwork Orange’
(via Post Atomic)
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