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

["Neal Goldsmith" <neal@inch.com>]

"When Henry Murray spoke of the need to create a new `World Man,' ' Mr.
Chase writes in conclusion to his cogent, disturbing analysis, "this was
not what he had in mind."

What should the moral citizen do when a wrong-minded, death-dealing,
zombie/robot-creating government is close to gaining unassailable
supremacy?  When it was Nazi Germany, we decided that killing them was
morally justified and we evaluate German citizens on the basis of
whether they actively fought against (i.e. killed people in) their own
government, or sat back and slid down the slippery slope to the
zombie-citizen/machine-government future.

Kaczynski (and more recently, bin Laden) made the principled (although I
believe, incorrect) decision that, in Kaczynski's words, "in order to
get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting
impression, we've had to kill people."

Is the answer simply that killing is never justified (the "Buddhist"
perspective)?  Or is the answer that killing can be justified as the
lesser of two evils?  If the latter, then the validity of Kaczynski and
bin Laden boils down to how near to unassailably evil you see Western
civilization, doesn't it?

-- Neal

Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D.
+1-718-369-9100
neal@inch.com


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Subject: <nlc> New WORLD MAN --> Harvard + LSD = Bombers/BOOMERS

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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