Put your ear to the train tracks, put your ear to the ground
You ever feel like you're never alone
Even when there's nobody else around? - Bob Dylan
Once you admit mind control to your ambit of the real world, it's a different world. The worms won't go back in the can. No wonder the subject is usually given wide berth by critics of government and even many students of deep politics, notwithstanding documentation of government ambition, survivor testimony and dark history.
Reading the news begins to resemble a classic exercise in religious exegesis, with every schoolhouse massacre inviting the old question of free will or predestination. But the new lords of determinacy are not the gods of our fathers.
If our world includes programmed assassins, and has for at least 40 years, what programming can we say with confidence is both out-of-reach and ethically out-of-bounds for the programmers? If, say, the People's Temple of Naval Intelligence asset Jim Jones was a social experiment in mind control, then to what end? More pointedly, was it deemed a success? Should we expect a rollout of the supersized beta version? And how will we know when it's Jonestown Time?
Something just snaps, and unassuming men go to war on children with intent to molest and murder. "Troubled by a rash of school shootings," says Reuters, "President George W. Bush next week will bring together law enforcement authorities and education officials to try to determine what the federal government can do to stop the problem."
We should always admit the reality of random acts (or perhaps rather, fractally speaking, the appearance of random acts), but violence serves the violent, and cui bono? is always a valid question so long as we keep our ears to the train tracks.
By the way, here's some other news that strikes me as somewhat important:
Antimatter discovery could alter physics
Particle tracked between real world, spooky realm
The discovery that a bizarre particle travels between the real world of matter and the spooky realm of antimatter 3 trillion times a second may open the door to a new era of physics, Fermilab researchers announced Monday.
The incredibly rapid commuting rate of the B sub s meson particle had been predicted by the Standard Model, the successful but incomplete theory aimed at explaining how matter and energy interact to form the visible universe. After 20 years of trying, scientists have now confirmed the rate, providing strong evidence for the theory.