Not Pynchon just paranoia

[Bruno]

Would you say that human agency can be that coordinated? For CIA to
engineer such an elaborate cultural strategy, it would require dozens of
submissive individuals who wouldn't spoil the plans not even once along the
way.

For instance Abstract Expressionism was funded by CIA. That's it. *Funded. *It
doesn't mean Pollock was a spy. Even so, this was a soft power tool for the
Cold War.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161004-was-modern-art-a-weapon-of-the-cia


2017-05-09 7:11 GMT-05:00 Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>:

> I truly wish I could believe that all the old CIA documentation was made
> public but, of course, that's a foolish wish. What's bothering me most
> right now is a podcast I heard this weekend from THE LIMINALIST
> http://auticulture.com/liminalist-111-tool-tyrants-jan-irvin/
>
> This gist of which was that the entire Youth Culture of the 60's was
> socially engineered by the CIA and their worldwide cohorts. It goes on to
> say that not only the Beats (who is it that could actually believe that
> Burroughs was NOT a double agent?) but the very Beatles themselves were
> witting tools of a CIA masterminded social program. To believe for one
> moment that the music and poetry of my youth was actually funded and
> created by think tanks created by my grandfather's generation is really too
> much to bear. (It's gets worse, he asserts that the whole 'ethneogen'
> movement, past and present, has been manufactured and spun to the benefit
> of THEM.)
>
> Podcast description from the home page:
>
> Conversation with Jan Irvin on what’s in a name and suggestogens, the John
>> Allegro attacks, Wasson & CIA, overturning the entire field of ethnobotany,
>> Peter Levenda & Trine Day as disinformation peddlers, being surrounded by
>> dissemblers, a circle jerk of citations, from psychedelics to entheogens,
>> mind-manifestations, recreating the fall of man, gnosis as ego inflation,
>> the Trivium, Terence McKenna & MKULTRA, sixty years of CIA rock music,
>> Aztec hippies, psychedelics and blood sacrifice, Jan’s Empowerment rule #
>> 6, the CIA’s road to hell, a conversation between Aldous Huxley & Timothy
>> Leary, reverse-engineered society, the Internal Affairs of Alt Media, the
>> classical Trivium, the tool of tyrants, Daniel Pinchbeck’s connections,
>> spiritual gurus for the CIA, channeling Uranus, how Jan weeds out the
>> witting agents from the willful dupes.
>
>
> It is stated in the show notes that it has been long known that 'students
> of the music hall movement' (there should be special punctuation for
> indicating that you are copying from your own possibly faulty memory)
> "opened doors,' etc, for the Beatles to become the success that they did.
>
> No doubt.
>
> -Allan in WV  where we don't care if it's brainwashing, just put Revolver
> on one more time
>
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *Open Culture (@openculture
>> <https://twitter.com/openculture?refsrc=email&s=11>)*
>>
>> 5/9/17, 2:37 AM
>> <https://twitter.com/openculture/status/861832444118417408?refsrc=email&s=11>
>> 12 Million Declassified CIA Documents Now Free Online: Secret Tunnels,
>> UFOs, Psychic Experiments & More bit.ly/2k9byPP <https://t.co/JCapGvAj1w>
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>>
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