thanks for the tip-off. "The 60s" were perhaps too innocent an age.

If one is a connoisseur of paranoia, this seems just another minor variation of the well-established principles of surveillance in the disciplinary society -- or what Deleuze said has evolved into the society of control.

But this IAO/Masonic pyramid connection does have a disturbing crystallized resonance that borders on the sense one gets in the shadow of the occult.

I must say I have become too afraid at times and burrowed a nest for myself in a healthy corner of denial. For fear either that I was losing touch with reality or that I was a little TOO sane, if you get my driftwood.

Listening to Zorn often helps. His music molds the schizophrenic into creative juxtaposition. A reconstruction of delirium.

--crowmeat

>From: thesubtlebody

>To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com

>Subject: IAO for real (a little OT)

>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:44:45 -0800 (PST)

>If I remember, Zorn's recentish album IAO is named

>after the Kabbalistic equivalent of the "number of the

>Beast", though I think I've missed that by a bit.

>This post, from somebody else on another mailing list,

>is just too close to the mark. May you live in

>interesting times!

><<<

>Convicted felon John Poindexter has been put in charge

>of developing a

>system that will invade your life in a myriad of ways.

>http://www.darpa.mil/iao/index.htm

>The Total Information Awareness system uses data

>mining technology to

>track individual's purchases, location, email, and

>every other action

>you take that leaves an electronic paper trail.

>I don't know about you, but I'm not too comfortable

>having an

>Iran-Contra alumni and convicted felon heading up the

>creation of the

>panopticon with no congressional oversite, and no

>checks and balances of

>any kind. Not to mention the logo for the dept makes

>me feel like I fell

>asleep in the year 1985 and woke up in a comic book

>set in the year

>2002. It's almost like they are trying to fullfill the

>crazed warnings

>of every conspiracy theorist who ever read _behold a

>pale horse_ with

>these freemasonry images and orwellian plans. Please

>give allof us who

>live in the real world a break, Poindexter.

>A while back, I wondered when people were going to

>begin waking up. I

>thought that maybe when we were neck deep in Civil War

>II, World War

>III, Vietnam II cubed, Watergate IV, George Orwell's

>1984 in 2002, and

>9/11 everyday then maybe people would finally snap out

>of it.

> >>>

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