sorta Watchmen, sorta P

[Jill Adams]

I never realized how sinister and real the covert CIA missions to undo a man's personality were until I started reading Shock Doctrine/ Naomi Klein.  Some of my more conspiracy theory friends made claims about these sorts of things... But I tossed a lot of that stuff out with the mixmash of wild things they'd say, Roswell, Chemtrails, believing that yeah, probably there was a little shock treatment and a couple pills or so.. I had no idea the quantity, the conniving and orchestration that went into it.. so evil..
I'm not alone, Shock Doctrine swept through my sleepy suburban library, hundreds perhaps thousands of holds have been fulfilled and people are reading it. It's just the plainspoken clarity of Shock Doctrine, it doesn't come off in that sweaty palmed hysteric way that my conspiracy theory friends act when they start going off.

what is that mechanism... that I have noticed, that I will <not> be persuaded by emotional claims..i don't know whether I am more disgusted with myself for not really seeking the truth, putting up a defense against knowing, or if I'm more disgusted with the reality of the bald existence of the shock doctrine.
Maybe it was easier to believe that They didn't have Their shit together enough to wage such scientific experiments, thow big levers of power. but They very much do have Their shit together.

-Jill

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 7, 2009 7:47 PM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: sorta Watchmen, sorta P
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>okay, so I got the other Watchmen title on DVD, the original
>illustrator oversaw the addition of a little motion to the original
>frames...
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>anyway, just one comment.  If that was a real prison psychologist, ol'
>Rorschach would be so full of Thorazine...
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>having personal experience with at least that phase of Frenesi's
>experience, I'm here to tell you that They have stuff that can
>obliterate defiance pretty thoroughly.  Don't know why she would get
>it on with Vond in the first place, but the career change and
>different personality is really no stretch of the imagination at all.
>And if that is "blaming the drugs" then I guess I'm guilty of that
>weakness too, like governments and Frenesi.
>Pretty powerful stuff, those neuroleptics.
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