TIME: 1956: Brainchips will "save a lot of work for the indoctrinators and thought-controllers of the future"

This is a re-post of an article I wrote for transalchemy. Here is the original link: http://transalchemy.blogspot.com/2009/11/1956-brainchips-indoctrinators-of.html

The article "Biocontrol," which appeared in TIME magazine (10/15/1956) is an eye opener, it quotes an Electrical Engineer (Curtis R. Shaffer) who casually discusses how the enslavement of man through brain chips will produce the "cheapest machine." The article was first brought to my attention in Vance Packards "The Hidden Persuaders" (1957), which is advertised as "a guide to the Age of Manipulation,"on Chapter 17: ("The Packaged Soul?") he writes:

"Eventually -- say by A.D. 2000 -- peraps all this depth manipulation of the psychological variety will seem amusingly old-fashioned. By then perhaps the biophysicists will take over with "biocontrol," which is depth persuasssion carried to its ultimate." [The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard, p.239]

TIME magazines article defines Biocontrol as "the control of physical movements, mental processes, emotional reactions and apparent sensory perceptions . . by means of bioelectrical signals which are transmitted and injected into the central nervous system of the subject." The article can be read in full online (link), here I have included the most important excerpts:

"A familiar horror of science fiction is the slave whose thoughts and actions are governed by an electronic gadget grafted into his brain. There might be some truth in this fiction, says Electrical Engineer Curtiss R. Schafer, who designs and develops electronic instruments for the Norden-Ketay Corp. of New York City. Electronics, he believes, could save a lot of work for the indoctrinators and thought-controllers of the future." ... "Cheapest Machine. "The ultimate achievement of biocontrol," says Engineer Schafer, "may be the control of man himself . . . Enslavement could be imposed upon the vanquished as a condition of peace, or through the threat of hydrogen bombing. Biocontrol could make this enslavement complete and final, for the controlled subjects would never be permitted to think as individuals. A few months after birth, a surgeon would equip each child with a socket mounted under the scalp and electrodes reaching selected areas of brain tissue. A year or two later, a miniature radio receiver and antenna would be plugged into the socket. From that time on, the child's sensory perceptions and muscular activity could be either modified or completely controlled by bioelectric signals radiated from state-controlled transmitters. "

The reference to "a socket mounted in the head" brought to my mind this scene (image) from The Matrix (1999).

3D: The Future Of Cinema: Further Blurring The Line Between Reality and Fiction & A look at Hybrids

In the following article "Is James Cameron's 3D movie Avatar the shape of cinema to come?" it is stated by two prominent film producers that 3D is the future direction of film and that it will provide "the ultimate immersive media." This will further blur the line between reality and fiction and as a by-product will help to normalize the merging of human and machine. The article centers around James Cameron's (produced Terminator 2) newest film Avatar, which "plays out on a verdant alien planet called Pandora and charts the war between its towering, blue-skinned inhabitants and the invading Earthling hordes."

The above image is a scene from the film Avatar, in the background there is the pictured actors Avatar, a human-alien hybrid, the theme of the hybrid has also being introduced by Beyonce (see Beyonce as a hybrid [@ 1:09 min] - video and image below), in this case a human-animal hybrid. This is one of the many direction's that 'guided evolution' can take us and was 'forseen' and discussed by Gordon Rattray Taylor in "The Biological Time Bomb" (1968) and Alvin Toffler in "Future Shock" (1970).


Here are the excerpts:

"The experiment of transferring human limbs to an animal may well be tried. If, as I describe later, means of raising the intelligence of apes and other animals are found, there may be a powerful demand for them as slaves, capable of performing simple tasks -- this is, after all, only a trifling extension of the practice of using horses to carry men or turn a mill. But for the tasks of a technological civilization, hands with fingers which can press buttons are required, and an opposable thumb is needed for many types of operation. It would therefore be logical to equip apes with discarded human hands. And if lower orders of animals, such as dogs, are also found suitable for such tasks, human arms and even legs may be needed for them. ... The technical term for organisms comprimising material from two or more species is chimeras, a Greek term coined for the monsters of their imaginations: the mermaid, the centaur and so on. Within a few years we may actually see such chimeras. If the mind recoils a little at the prospect of an ape with human hands, it is because all departures from the natural order produce this effect at first. ... the objection to artificial chimerism will probably subside as soon as it has become familiar. [hence it's introduction and normalization through entertainment]" - The Biological Time Bomb, p. 82, 83

"Mention was made earlier of the idea of breeding men with gills or implanting gills in them for efficiency in underwater environments. At a meeting of world renowned biologists in London, J. B. S. Haldane began to expatiate about the possibility of creating new, far-out forms of man for space exploration. "The most obvious abnormalities in extra-terrestrial environments," Haldane observed, "are differences in gravitation, temperature, air pressure, air composition, and radiation ... Clearly a gibbon is better preadapted than a man for life in a low gravitational field, such as that of a space ship, an asteroid, or perhaps even the moon. A platyrrhine with a prehensile tail is even more so. Gene grafting may make it possible to incorporate such features into the human stocks." While the scientists at this meeting devoted much of their attention to the moral consequences and perils of the biological revolution, no one challenged Haldane's suggestion that we shall someday make men with tails if we want them. Indeed, Lederberg merely observed that there might well be non-genetic ways to accomplish the same ends more easily. "We are going to modify man experimentally through physiological and embryological alterations, and by the substitution of machines for his parts," Lederberg declared. "If we want a man without legs, we don't have to breed him, we can chop them off; if we want a man with a tail, we will find a way of grafting it on to him." - Future Shock, p.194, 195

Hip Hop & Freemasonry: Culture Creation & The Shape of Things To Come

This work examines hip hop from it's inception and it's ties to secret societies, the role culture plays in molding, shaping and directing the masses and looks at where exactly we are being directed to. This is an 8 part series & below are the tiles of each part:

01 - Culture Creation and The Grand Master's Flash
02 - From Family-Life to Thug-life, From G-Unit to Army-Unit
03 - Tupac Shakur: Human Values & Losing Sight of What's Important
04 - Empty People & Their Secret Societies: A New Age for a New Order
05 - The Shape of Things to Come I - Sell'n Ya Soul for Holly - Weird - O's
06 - The Shape of Things to Come II - Predictive Programming Explained
07 - The Shape of Things to Come III - The Electric Man
08 - Exiting Enter-tainment and Giving A Dawm

Brain Implant Familiarization & The Front Men Who Plug It

Julian Huxley: Eugenics, Birth Control & HG Wells

Excerpts from Julian Huxley's "Memoirs I" are read and discussed, along side several articles on Eugenics. The excerpts from Huxley's Memoirs cover Birth Control, Eugenics and HG Wells.

"Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887–14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund." - 1

MP3: Eugenics, Birth Control, HG Wells & Julian Huxley [64 mins]

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Hip Hop & Freemasonry: The New Age & Military Agenda

A recent work of mine; A three part series which examines the military and new age agenda's CURRENTLY being pushed in hip-hop.