Not Pynchon just paranoia

[Paul Mackin]

However, if it were in a novel, I would read it.


On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:18 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> This theory is completely ridiculous.  The CIA ain't God, and only she
> could have brought forth the 60's.
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:05 AM Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>> ain't
>>> -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
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>>>
>>>
>>
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