Re: IVIV: Chapter Five—Head 'em off at the Past ! ! !

[Joseph Tracy]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

>  Doc begins maneuvers upon co-conspirator Mrs. Sloane Wolfmann in  
> order to determine what nut-house the real estate developer may  
> have been dumped in. Doc coms up with his own bogus mental health  
> clinic—"Modern Institute for Cognitive Re-patterning and Overhaul".  
> aka "MICRO"— yet another echo of LSD's function [briefly] as a  
> therapeutic aid for modern, over-stressed personalities. This was  
> particularly true in Stanford, doubtlessly true around UCLA and  
> Isla Vista is certainly close enough to Ojai for rock 'n roll.
>
> Getting ready for his visit to the Wolfmann estate, the good Doc  
> checks out some "straight" costumes in his "en suite broom closet"  
> setting his sights on a "double-breasted velour suit from Zeidler &  
> Zeidler" and a short-hair wig that almost matched the suit. I can't  
> help wonder how lumpy and obvious that wig must have looked on  
> Larry's hirsute head. Doc has his friend "Jake" make up a few  
> business cards for "MICRO" and that's the last we'll ever see of  
> Jake. The card reads:  "MICRO—Reconfiguring Southland brains since  
> 1966. Larry Sportello, Licensed Associate" which the author points  
> out is true enough long as the license you're referring to is a  
> California driver's. It's also a reminder of the point where LSD  
> stopped being therapeutic and started being "party time!!!", a fad  
> doomed to fall apart soon enough. Just ask Count Drugula.
>
Considering the last chapter's reference to the drug-like territory  
of Santa Monica the LSD microdot interpretation seems obvious for  
MICRO but I think a dual meaning is always likely with TRP and the  
obvious one is the revolution in microtechnology also referred to in  
the previous chapter with Arpa. MICRO-The Modern Institute for  
Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul. Kinda works either way,  and if  
we think of the "mental institute" that captured and is holding  the  
Jewish Nazi Wolfmann as Capitalism/CIA/Golden Fang it is  
characterized by a long involvement in both drug chemistry and  
computation. Combined with Wolfmann's interests that gives us 3 of  
the major bubbles floating the US economy. Drugs(both healthcare, and  
illegal traffic), Micro( computers, telephones, surveillance,  
elaborate computerized financial trading) , and Real Estate speculation.

To investigate any area of this world is to enter the mirrored halls  
of power and the interconnected aspirations that keep the empire  
going.  Reet forsees digital real estate databases LSD moves from  
department of Defense and CIA to Rock and Roll Counterculture  
revolution, and bad trips send them back to the safety of TV and the  
Burbs.

Anyway Doc prints a card that gives him a purchase on some imaginary  
real real estate and entices Mrs Wolfmann with imaginary money. One  
of the things we all like about the amoral detective/gameplayer is  
tis ability to make up lies on the spot that get them through the  
door. I've noticed over the years that salespeople are the least  
resistant to a good pitch.  In a sense it is here in the Wolmann  
manse with its "reverse floorplan" we find out who Wolfmann is  
modeled after in the mixed up  quote of Robert Moses"Once you get  
that first stake driven..."  Moses was the NYC master planner of   
Suburbia. And TRP "pointedly" compares him and his offspring to a  
vampire in one of his rather wooden jokes. Also referring oddly to  
NYC is Mrs Wolmann's name Sloane which reminds of Alfred Sloan once  
head of GM the inventor of planned obsolescence, which fits nicely  
with suburbia, and master of industrial espionage and management via  
financial statistics( started famous Sloan school of management).  
Anybody for a little tantric Yoga with my hot new Buick?
Nazi armaments chief Albert Speer told a congressional investigator  
that Germany could not have attempted its September 1939 Blitzkrieg  
of Poland without the performance-boosting additive technology  
provided by Alfred P. Sloan and General Motors.[5][6]

Edwin Black writes in his article, "Hitler's Carmaker: The Inside  
Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich"[7],  
about Sloan's support for Nazi Germany:

"For Sloan, motorizing the fascist regime that was expected to wage a  
bloody war in Europe was the next big thing and a spigot of limitless  
profits for GM. But unlike many commercial collaborators with the  
Nazis who were driven strictly by the icy quest for profits, Sloan  
also harbored a political motivation. Sloan despised the emerging  
American way of life being crafted by President Franklin Delano  
Roosevelt. Sloan hated Roosevelt´s New Deal, and admired the  
strength, irrepressible determination and sheer magnitude of Hitler´s  
vision."


"Alfred Sloan, James D. Mooney, John T. Smith and Graeme K. Howard  
remained on the General Motors-Opel board . . . in flagrant violation  
of existing legislation, information, contacts, transfers and trade  
continued [throughout the war] to flow between the firm's Detroit  
headquarters and its subsidiaries both in Allied countries and in  
territories controlled by the Axis powers. The financial records of  
Opel Russelsheim revealed that between 1942 and 1945 production and  
sales strategy were planned in close coordination with General Motors  
factories throughout the world.... In 1943, while its American  
manufacturers were equipping the United States Air Force, the German  
group were developing, manufacturing and assembling motors for the  
Messerschmitt 262, the first jet fighter in the world. This  
innovation gave the Nazis a basic technological advantage. With  
speeds up to 540 miles per hour, this aircraft could fly 100 miles  
per hour faster than its American rival, the piston-powered Mustang  
P51."