Re: [ST] Parking lot blues...

[Andrew Bell <abell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Andrew, Kevin......no, no,  You must follow the Fjords they are much 
>safer, and more peacful....no explosions.
>
>STeve
>"UnderDawg"
>

or better yet I quote

""``Your heart will remain calm. Your adrenalin gland will remain calm. 
Calm, all-over calm. You will not panic. you will look at the fnord and see 
the it. You will not evade it or black it out. you will stay calm and face 
it.'' And further back, way back: my first-grade teacher writing FNORD on 
the blackboard, while a wheel with a spiral design turned and turned on his 
desk, turned and turned, and his voice droned on, IF YOU DON'T SEE THE 
FNORD IT CAN'T EAT YOU, DON'T SEE THE FNORD, DON'T SEE THE FNORD . . .

I looked back at the paper and still saw the fnords. This was one step 
beyond Pavlov, I realized. The first conditioned reflex was to experience 
the panic reaction (the activation syndrome, it's technically called) 
whenever encountering the word ``fnord.'' The second conditioned reflex was 
to black out what happened, including the word itself, and just to feel a 
general low-grade emergency without knowing why. And the third step, of 
course, was to attribute this anxiety to the news stories, which were bad 
enough in themselves anyway. Of course, the essence of control is fear. The 
fnords produced a whole population walking around in chronic low-grade 
emergency, tormented by ulcers, dizzy spells, nightmares, heart 
palpitations and all the other symptoms of too much adrenalin. All my 
left-wing arrogance and contempt for my countrymen melted, and I felt a 
genuine pity. No wonder the poor bastards believe anything they're told, 
walk through pollution and overcrowding without complaining, watch their 
son hauled off to endless wars and butchered, never protest, never fight 
back, never show much happiness or eroticism or curiosity or normal human 
emotion, live with perpetual tunnel vision, walk past a slum without seeing 
either the human misery it contains or the potential threat it poses to 
their security . . .

Then I got a hunch, and turned quickly to the advertisements. it was as I 
expected: no fnords. That was part of the gimmick, too: only in 
consumption, endless consumption, could they escape the amorphous threat of 
the invisible fnords. I kept thinking about it on my way to the office. If 
I pointed out a fnord to somebody who hadn't been deconditioned, as Hagbard 
deconditioned me, what would he or she say? They'd probably read the word 
before or after it. ``No this word,'' I'd say. And they would again read an 
adjacent word. But would their panic level rise as the threat came closer 
to consciousness? I preferred not to try the experiment; it might have 
ended with a psychotic fugue in the subject. The conditioning, after all, 
went back to grade school. No wonder we all hate those teachers so much: we 
have a dim, masked memory of what they've done to us in converting us into 
good and faithful servants for the Illuminati.




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