[Nettime-bold] New WORLD MAN --> Harvard + LSD = Bombers/BOOMERS

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Y'all:

As more and more of the times of our lifes become subject for recollection 
and playback, it is only inevitable that certain pieces of the PUZZLE will 
fall into place.

As the MK-ULTRA character in Norman Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost" -- the 
ghost-watching "harlot" Kittridge -- puts it . . . we are all made of two 
conflicting personalities, the ALPHA and the OMEGA.

The fact that this fascination with intra-personality conflict and chemically 
provoked DECONSTRUCTION *was* the central theme of the CIA's massive 
collection of "drug" projects, has long been understood.

Why?

Forget the FAIRY tales of "Manchurian Candidate" remote-controlled assassins 
(although Frank Sinatra *was* good in the movie, just as he is a STAR in 
Mailer's novel) and dismiss those fantasies about flooding the ANTI-WAR 
movement with drugs to drown out a youthful UPRISING.

Foolishness.  Naive.  Silly.

But, why did they REALLY do it?

Why did CIA top-profiler Frank Barron get his protege (and junior-profiler 
Tim Leary) a job at Harvard with the Agency's UBER-PROFILER, Henry "Harry" 
Murray?

And, what did Harry Murray's sado-masochistic relationship with his MK-ULTRA 
"colleague" -- which was largely carried out in Murray's BOLLINGEN (a 
faithful recreation of Carl JUNG's round-stone CASTLE-KEEP) -- and his 
*ownership* of the "secret" Herman Melville papers (which McLuhan knew 
about?) have to do with this?

Many of the puzzle-pieces and much of the background for Tim Leary's 
trajectory from Harvard to Folsom and for LSD's transition from LAB-TEST to 
MASS-DOSE are discussed in Alston Chase's new book -- "Harvard and the 
Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/books/03MASL.html?pagewanted=print&;
position=top

What was going on in MK-ULTRA was a concerted attempt to build a NEW WORLD 
MAN.

The CIA was deeply involved in the BREAKDOWN of personalities for the simple 
reason that they wished to BUILDUP a new sort of personality.

LSD was their preferred MEDIUM for this transformation from OLD WORLD to NEW 
WORLD.

Read your Norman Mailer.  Grasp *your* own HISTORY.  Listen to your GRATEFUL 
DEAD.  Read your PYNCHON.  Listen to your McLUHAN.

KNOW the TERRORISM of your own LIFE!!

Then after you BLOW-UP . . . GROW-UP,

Mark Stahlman
New York City


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