A STRANGE AND TERRIBLE GLIMPSE INTO THE DEEP STATE

[Doc Sportello]

Thanks for this Mark I love this shit.

This is the p-lister formerly known as Doc BTW, decided I'd stop hiding and
use my real name.


On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I figure this information is at least tangential to a lot of Pynchon's
> greater project, so I figured I'd share it from my most recently
> started up blog with you all, here...
>
> (my blog is KubrickU.blogspot.com)
>
> VISUP is a website that appears to be single-handedly put together by
> a semi-anonymous savant going by the name of Recluse. His site is
> dedicated "to exploring the vast Fortean realms of mind control, deep
> politics, sacred geometry, onomatology and synchronicity; occult film
> and music; the supernatural, the extraterrestrial and the
> multi-dimensional; high weirdness in all its many forms", and it's
> currently home to an absolutely fascinating series of profound,
> densely-packed articles about one of Stanley Kubrick's best known
> movies, Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
> the Bomb.
>
>
> http://visupview.blogspot.ca/2014/07/dr-strangelove-strange-and-terrible.html
>
> In the first installment of his series - Dr. Strangelove: A Strange
> and Terrible Glimpse Into the Deep State - Recluse begins with an
> extended prolegomena, then explains his goals thusly:
>
> "Hundreds, and likely thousands, of articles and blogs have been
> written on the esoteric significance of2001: A Space Odyssey and Eyes
> Wide Shut. A fair amount are also available on A Clockwork Orangeand
> The Shining. For this present series I would like to address one of
> Kubrick's most well known films, yet one that is rarely if ever
> examined in depth by conventional conspiracy theorists: the 1964
> "nightmare comedy" Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying
> and Love the Bomb. That this film, despite being rich in a host of
> symbolism and allegories, has been widely ignored by mainline
> conspiracy theorists is hardly surprising for reasons that shall be
> addressed throughout this series."
>
> Recluse then goes on to tie together everything from "deep history"
> scholar Caroll Quigley's theories about the Anglo-American
> Establishment, the "Four Establishment Model of Western Politics",
> obscure Cold War scrapes and near-misses culled from the deep
> biographies of Robert MacNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Curtis LeMay and
> other such super-powered, death-loving lunatics of the Military
> Industrial Intelligence Complex, with detours taken to California's
> "muy mysterioso" Laurel Canyon (with hyper-hipster Terry Southern) and
> Jolly Old England (with the spawn of super-insider John Buchan's
> loins, Alastair, among other Round Table cohorts), before signing off
> until the second installment...
>
>
> http://visupview.blogspot.ca/2014/07/dr-strangelove-strange-and-terrible_12.html
>
> Dr. Strangelove: A Strange and Terrible Glimpse Into the Deep State,
> Part II is, if anything, even deeper and more mind-bending than the
> first installment in this incredible series. Here, I won't even try to
> parse out the connections and flow from topic to character to event.
> Rather, I'll just present them as a dada jumble of alphabet soup for
> you to digest if and as you will: The Egyptian God Set. Cowboy
> mythology. Manifest Destiny. The Marquis de Sade. Oedipus. Hecate. The
> Doomsday Machine. General Curtis LeMay again (perhaps one of the most
> terrifying figures in Cold War history). General Lyman Lemnitzer of
> Operation Northwoods infamy (ditto). Nazi rocket-man Werner von Braun
> (double-ditto). JFK's assassination. The OSS. The CIA. Wild Bill
> Donovan. The Order of Malta. Herman Kahn. Bay of Pigs. Operation
> Gladio. Adlai Stevenson. The Council on Foreign Relations. The RAND
> Corporation. Henry Kissinger. Edward "Father of the Bomb" Teller.
> Project Paperclip. Google any of the above people, places, groups or
> events and you'll uncover a multiverse of mid-20th century shenanigans
> that, when taken together, begin to form a fractal, holographic image
> of a particular, peculiar moment in historical time. But whatever you
> do, by all means, read the post!
>
>
> http://visupview.blogspot.ca/2014/07/dr-strangelove-strange-and-terrible_19.html
>
> Which brings us to Dr. Strangelove: A Strange and Terrible Glimpse
> Into the Deep State, Part III, which, for now, is the latest
> installment in Recluse's must-read series. After getting a lot of the
> groundwork laid in the first two installments, here is where we
> finally get to the meat of the film's main events and plot points.
> It's here that Recluse examines a number of issues, including
> Kubrick's repeated use of sexual imagery and metaphors, the functions,
> history and deep psychology of propaganda, more on mind control, sex
> magic (bodily fluids, anyone?), the Pentagon/Pentagram symbolism, the
> All Seeing Eye of Providence, the caste of warrior monks
> andphilosopher kings, and of course, the secret meanings behind all
> those "kooky" character names (Buck Turgidson, Merkin Muffley, etc).
>
> And so that's where the series currently stands. Personally, I can't
> wait for Parts IV, V, VI and however many moreRecluse has got planned
> for us in the coming weeks and months.
>
> Now, I'm not saying I agree with every single point that Recluse has
> made so far. Because Godzilla only knows, he's made one hell of a lot
> of them. But what I will say is this: If, during the course of Kubrick
> U's existence, I somehow manage to publish anything that comes close
> to being as substantial, rigorous and encyclopedic as Recluse's
> incredible exegesis of Dr Strangelove is, I will be able to wrap
> things up tight and be satisfied that this blog had somehow served its
> purpose.
>
> So go read Recluse's posts. Go. Now. Do it.
>
> Cheers,
> yer old pal Jerky
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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