I’ll take one of the blue pills and a purple one, please…
Unless, we get a little… crazy.
The path:
In a dark room with only the light of a television, when a comercial comes on look at the wall behind you, observe the stroboscopic nature of broadcast magic, now look at the screen. Repeat until you say to yourself, “Do I need TV as an informational souce?” Maybe?..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_message
http://skepdic.com/subliminal.html
Then watch these three movies/DVDs
House of Games - Joe Montegna
A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for “tells”, or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.
human nature is a sucker bet.
You can’t bluff someone who’s not paying attention.
What I’m talking about comes down to a more basic philosophical principle: Don’t trust nobody.
which links to:
THX 1138 - Robert Duvall
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets LUH 3417 pregnant. They are both thrown in jail where they meet SEN 5241 and start to plan their escape.
Dialogue included for speed readers…
Female voice (medicine cabinet): If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.
OMM: Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses.
Male voice (medicine cabinet): What’s wrong?
Man: I need something stronger.
Male voice (medicine cabinet): Take four red capsules. In 10 minutes, take two more. Help is on the way.
Female voice: What’s wrong?
Man on monitor: I just bought one of these yesterday, and it doesn’t fit my consumer, and the store doesn’t have any of the other kind.
[LUH presses a button]
Male voice: For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized. We are sorry -
Man on monitor: This is -
[cut off]
Male voice: That accident over in Red Sector L destroyed another 63 personnel, giving them a total of 242 lost to our 195. Keep up the good work and prevent accidents. This shift is concluded.
Female voice: A libido leveler has been mislaid near the pulse-leveling gate. If you have accidentally -
Hologram Newscaster: - units of detuned escalatories have not, however, prevented virus and ordnance from invading our centers.
[hologram plays in background while THX looks for LUH]
Hologram: Combined with economic advantages of the mating structure, it far surpasses any disadvantages in increased perversions. A final tran - An infinite translated mathematics of tolerance and charity among artificial memory devices is ultimately binary. Stimulating rhetoric…
THX 1138: LUH?
Hologram: …absolute. The theater of noise is proof of our potential. The circulation of autotypes. The golden talisman underfoot is phenomenon approaching. And, in the history of now, all ethos are designed.
Chrome Robot: Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.
Trial Prosecutor: Economics must not dictate situations which are obviously religious.
[in crowded hallway]
Male voice (P.A. in hallway): Keep causeways clean. Save time, save lives.
SRT: How shall the new environment be programmed? It all happened so slowly that most men failed to realize that anything had happened at all.
Male voice: Remember, thifty thinkers are always underbudget.
Male voice: Economics make it necessary to terminate any operation which exceeds five percent of its primary budget.
SEN 5241: [kneeling in a studio before a large image of OMM] Things don’t seem to make sense. Sometimes I see things get left out, and… they don’t fit. People don’t seem to see them. Or they don’t know what to do. Sometimes I - Sometimes a little - a little adjustment -
[laughs]
SEN 5241: - can make all the difference. I wanna do the right thing. I wanna go back. I - I - I can s - I can start again. I can… change. I can - I can help. I just need a - need to rest up for a little while.
Monk: This is no place for prayer. If you want to speak to OMM, you must go to a unichapel. You know that.
SEN 5241: Yes.
Monk: What? Are you in any trouble?
SEN 5241: No, I - I’m okay, I’m going now.
Monk: What’s your number and what’s your prefix? I’m going to see this gets into your report.
SEN 5241: [stammering] No, I’m leaving now.
Monk: I’m sorry, I - I have to report all intruders. Uh, where’s your identification badge?
SEN 5241: I… lost it.
Monk: You’re in violation. I’m gonna have to report you to the authorities.
Chrome Robot: [trying to unlock door to pursue THX] Can you hear me? Stay calm. Everything will be all right. The door seems to be jammed. Please check the lock on your side. Everything will be all right; we are here to help you. Stay calm. We are not going to harm you. Everything will be all right.
SRT: Well, maybe you are right. Maybe there’s something wrong with the computer. I don’t know, it’s a strange life. Cybernetics, genetics, lasers and all those things. I guess I’ll never understand any of that stuff. Guess maybe holograms are not supposed to.
Male voice: T-H-X eleven-thirty-eight will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure. Total operation cost: six thousand credits under budget. Congratulations. Be efficient, be happy.
SEN 5241: You know, when I was at school, it was all very different. We used to stay in bed all the time. Combined primary economics… Combined primary economics was a bottle about this big.
[holds hands two feet apart]
SEN 5241: Took a week.
Child: Wow!
Male voice (P.A. in hallway leading to garage]: - in your zoned section for longer than three minutes. Jet acceleration will not be safe to persons in dispersal area. To avoid being singed by jet exhaust, please exit your vehicle on the right, and walk through the blue zone on the left.
Male voice (P.A. in garage): - critical noise levels in this area. Be sure to report all decibel surges in excess of 1.5 on the Murrer-Wiggins scale.
Male voice (jetcar radio chatter): Hey, I think I ran over some - I think I ran over a wookie back there on the expressway…
Female voice (over P.A.): Changeable. Alterable. Mutable. Variable. Versatile. Moldable. Movable. Fluctuate. Undulate. Flicker. Flutter. Pulsate. Vibrate. Alternate. Plastic.
[THX is approaching the city’s exit]
Chrome Robot: Please come back. You have nothing to be afraid of.
Male voice: The T-H-X account is six percent over budget. The case is to be terminated.
[THX’s case has been terminated]
Chrome Robot: We have to go back. This is your last chance to return with us. You have nowhere to go. You cannot survive outside the city shell. We only want to help you. This is your last chance.
OMM: Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.
OMM: Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.
OMM: Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Chrome Robot: You have nowhere to go. I am here to protect you.
THX 1138: Who are you?
SRT: I am a hologram.
[repeated line]
Robotic Voice-Over: Are you now, or have you ever been
Spiritual Earth: Aloha Wave - Denjiro Sato
(Nels - Help!)