Adventures in Pathology: “As the Ouiji Spins”
by Vincent Bridges
One of the many interesting things that the psychological literature on borderline personality disorders tells us about the Laura and Ark Show is that an external fantasy stimulus, such as movies, can become what is called a “belief nexus” around which all sorts of ideational dysfunctions can constellate. The film “Taxi Driver” and its effect on would be assassin John Hinkley is a classic example.
In Part Four of The Truth about Cassiopaea, I pointed out that Laura’s description of her Tallahassee attempted murder suggests that an earlier constellation had taken place around “Dr. Zhivago” and the character of Lara. We can see echoes of this in her “love story” aspect of Ark’s arrival. But the new “belief nexus” under which reality is structured in C-World is now the movie The Matrix.
The Matrix is a good science fiction noir film about battling mind controlling aliens in a future present of great sophistication and moral ambiguity. The effects are great and the acting demands fortunately do not exceed the casts’ talents. As a mythos around which to develop a worldview, it is disturbingly misanthropic. As a direct practical answer to all the world’s mysteries, well, frankly that goes beyond disturbing and becomes as pathological as Hinkley’s obsession with Jodi Foster.
Here’s an example of how deep it goes:
“The reader will want to keep in mind always that when we are talking about Petty Tyrants, we are talking about agents of the Matrix in almost exactly the same terms described in the movie. In other words, anyone can - in an instant - receive the “download” of an “agent program” and begin to function as a Petty Tyrant for the very first time. By the same token, when an agent in a certain “quarter” is no longer needed, he/she can be turned “off” and the individual will go along living a peaceful life, never bothering anyone unless - and until - they are needed as an “agent” again. And truthfully, any of us can, at any time, be activated as a Petty Tyrant in someone else’s life!”
So, a petty tyrant, read anyone who questions disagrees or leaves her circle of sycophants without permission, is actually a Matrix agent activated by remote control by the evil aliens that have complete control of our reality for the specific purpose of making her life miserable. And we are supposed to take this seriously?
Anyone can be a Matrix agents, except of course those who embrace the teachings of the Cassiopaeans. Knowledge Protects…
Just to show inherently paranoid this world-view actually is, here’s how Laura thinks it works:
“I could see a 4th density “controller” sitting at a big computer console with buttons and levers and dials. He had a screen on which he watched human affairs, and all he had to do was sort of “lock in the target” on a particular person displayed on the screen, and begin pushing buttons and levers, and turning the different dials to put certain inputs into the situation. These machinations produced frequencies that stimulated certain chemicals in the bodies and brains of the individuals displayed on the screen, and there were nearly infinite possibilities of manipulation available just through this kind of activity. I laughed at this vision, of course, because it was almost like a comic strip character. But I was later to learn how much it really does seem like this is the real way it works.”
How different is this than the paranoid wearing a tinfoil hat to keep out the rays of the evil Deros from the interior of Mars?
And then, enter Ark the physicist with the strange Iron Curtain background…
Vincent
