INVISIBLE FEEDBACK REVOLUTION

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
from The Invisible Generation Feedback From Watergate to Eden & Electronic Revolution (CPAN edit&mix)

      who programs you
      who decides what tapes play back in present time
      who plays back your old humiliations and defeats holding you in prerecorded preset time
      you don’t have to listen to that sound you can program your own playback you can decide what tapes you want played back in present with a technique able to produce events and direct thought on a mass scale
      waking suggestion is the method first used by Doctor John Dent instructing patient to read aloud from a book while concentrating his attention on what he is reading as if reading to an imaginary person seated in front of him as doctor stands behind him and repeats at the same voice level the patient is using certain previously agreed upon suggestions
      the attention of patient concentrated on reading means he does not hear the suggestions consciously and for this reason they take direct effect on his subconscious or reactive mind
      this is not subliminal suggestion below threshold level of perception this is sound and image unregistered because attention is elsewhere
      see the word as virus see words as viruses spreading memetic contagion of words the human disease unnoticed symbiosis not like animals who talk bark roar sing communicate without the word infecting minds through assortment of vectors penetration replication escape one host invade other host as virus is communicated and soon indeed the host may be desperate to communicate this thing that is bursting inside him always chatter no silence repeat word for word take for take like a cold sore or flu cough the virus reminding you of its unwanted presence “HERE ME IS”
      begin to see sharp and clear there is a grey veil between you and what was did you not see that grey veil was the prerecorded words of a control machine once that veil is removed you will see clearer and sharper than those who are behind the veil whatever you do you will do it better than those behind the veil this is the invisible generation it is the efficient generation hands work and go see some interesting results with the experiments described here were explained and demonstrated to me by ian summerville of london in this article I am writing as his ghost
      memory theory posits seven second temporary buffer store that is the “now” on endless tape loop that we perceive scan edit save or erase the tape speed acts as time sense a blow to head will wipe out buffer the key is the scanning pattern scanning out a small automatic arbitrary selection of a larger set of data which then ceases to exist you must make scan conscious and controllable
      take time study your associational patterns and find out what cases in what pre-recordings trigger what listen to your present time tapes and you will begin to see who you are and what you are doing here mix yesterday in with today and hear tomorrow your future rising out of old recordings you are a programmed tape recorder set to record and play back tape programs
      the use of irrelevant response will be found effective in breaking obsessional association tracks all association tracks are obsessional get it out of your head and into the machines stop arguing stop complaining stop talking let the machines argue complain and talk free the words from their moorings a tape recorder is an externalized section of the human nervous system you can find out more about the nervous system and gain more control over your reactions by using the tape recorder than you could find out sitting twenty years in the lotus posture or wasting your time on the analytic couch of psychiatrist priests trying to keep you off lets turn on
      edit a recorded conversation retaining material which is incisive witty and pertinent you can edit a recorded conversation retaining remarks which are boring flat and silly a tape recorder can play back fast slow or backwards you can learn to do these things record a sentence and speed it up now try imitating your accelerated voice play a sentence backwards and learn to unsay what you just said such exercises bring you liberation from old association locks
      after analyzing recorded conversations you will learn to steer a conversation where you want it to go the physiological liberation achieved as word lines of controlled association are cut will make you more efficient in reaching your objectives whatever you do you will do it better record your boss and co-workers analyze their associational patterns learn to imitate their voices oh you’ll be a popular man around the office but not easy to compete with the usual procedure record their body sounds from concealed mikes the rhythm of breathing the movements of after-lunch intestines the beating of hearts now impose your own body sounds and become the breathing word and the beating heart of that organization become that organization before you go up against the old man you record the old man’s voice and splice in your own voice in expounding your new concept and put it out on the office air-conditioning system splice yourself in with your favorite pop singers splice yourself in with newscasters prime ministers presidents
      why stop there
      why stop anywhere
      the tech can be extended by taking still or moving pictures during playback and then replaying recordings and retaking pictures yesterday inserted into today will result in accidents fires removals we carried this operation out on the moka bar 29 frith st london w1 and the scientology centers at 27 fitzroy rd and 68 tottenham court succeeding of course you can learn to use the human voice as a weapon duplicating tape recorder effects throw your voice its easy speak backwards its hard repeat another speaker as they are speaking in instant echo soon they can not say another word
      to find information wander places recording randomly move tape randomly read relevant passages rewind record take a picture why dontcha fastfoward cut-in overlay getting snatches of what happened play tape has chance told what you want to know how random is random really now
      take a card any card if messages are scrambled they must be descrambled by the receiver when this happens it will seem to the subject like his very own ideas just occurred to him which indeed it did experimentation tests research and results are needed does this work like posthypnotic suggestion do certain drugs make better descramblers is a subject’s own voice best you can take tape of voice and dice it fine till original words get lost and new words emerge in any case you can still recognize the speaker and tone are people hearing other peoples’ voices in their heads from street recorders doctored radios and tvs does he talk to himself he soon will be paranoid as tape is manipulated who can they can you can one two three four
      any number can play
      yes any number can play anyone with a tape recorder controlling the sound track you can influence and create events waking suggestion can be used in playback of prerecorded tapes in public where there is no attention paid on street at parties bars stations airports parks subways rallies theaters where ears are deaf to the tape because people are busy crossing street catching train on phone watching tv reading talking etc
      in the streets with tape recorders playing back volume adjusted to ambient volume premixed location sound masking popular songs and street sounds add cut/ups slowed sped overdubs echoes
      any suggestion tape is made much more effective if it contains contradictory commands which produce a moment of disorientation during which your suggestions take unconscious effect
      to be me to be you to stay here to stay there to be a body to be bodies to stay present to stay past stop go wait here go there come in stay out be a man be a woman be white be black live die be a human animal be a superman yes no do it now do it later be your real self be somebody else rebel submit right wrong make a splendid impression make an awful impression sit down stand up take your hat off put your hat on create destroy react ignore live now live in the past live in the future obey the law break the law be ambitious be modest accept reject do more do less plan ahead be spontaneous decide for yourself listen to others talk silence save money spend money speed up slow down this way right left present absent open closed up down entrance exit in out
      these commands are constantly being imposed by the environment of modern life for example your suggestion tape contains the phrase “look at that light in front of you . . . stop . . . stay here . . . go . . . be over there,” and is played back to people waiting at a stop light they are forced to obey as if you gave someone a sleeping pill without his knowledge and then suggested sleep
      suppose we have ourselves a certain target and on tape 1 we make a self tape record his conversations speeches editing in stammers mispronunciations inept phrases on tape 2 make a love tape bug his bedroom if possible potentiate with sex object desired but inadmissible or inaccessible on tape 3 we make a hate tape with spiteful condemning voices just makes you want to curl up in a ball and die take self sex hate tapes splice cut them up and scramble and new associations lines form making a destructive mix of contradictory command of which the basic principle is simply splicing sex tapes and disapproval tapes together       kiss kiss bang bang the key technique in psychic combat is signal switch of i love you i hate you run at rapid intervals makes a man a mewling dog
      to spread rumors put ten operators with carefully prepared recordings out at rush hour and see how quick the words get around you waft your message right into a worthy ear some carriers are much better than others you know the ones lips moving muttering away carry my message all over
      to discredit opponents take their recorded speech cut in stammering coughs sneezes hiccoughs snarls pain screams fear whimperings apoplectic sputterings slobbering drooling idiot noises sex and animal sound effects and play it back in the streets subway stations parks political rallies
      to produce and escalate riots simply have riot sound effects and produce real riot in riot situation cops hear recorded gunshots played back and guns are out play screams scuffle heat rises shrill chorus of recorded pig squeals groans and cop says I saw my buddy go down and thought this is it and you have got bloody wednesday a dazed america counted 23 dead and 32 wounded 6 critically
      could you cool a riot by recording the calmest cop and the most reasonable demonstrator maybe however it is much easier to start trouble that to stop it
      effects are obtained by persistence and exposure by getting as many operators in the street as possible
      these techniques are already being used to your ignorance and disadvantage know "they" are not god or from outer space just technicians from agencies official and non-official operating with well-known equipment and using techniques that can be duplicated by anyone else who can buy and operate this equipment.
control of the mass media depends on laying down lines of association when the lines are cut connections break President Johnson burst into a swank apartment and held three girls at gunpoint 26 miles north of Saigon yesterday
      underground press serves as the only effective counter to the growing power and more sophisticated technique used by establishment mass media to falsify misrepresent misquote rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous or simply ignore and blot out of existence data books discoveries that they consider prejudicial to the establishment interest supported by reporting prewritten news along certain slanted lines
      consider the mutter line of the daily press in morning papers millions of people read the same words in different ways of course all reacting one way or another to the paper world of unseen events which becomes an integral part of our reality
      put an altered mutter line out in the streets with a tape recorder stir in juxtapositions cut/ups make fake news with minimal equipment scramble old footage as what we see is determined to a large extent by what we hear you can verify this proposition by a simple experiment       turn off the sound track on your television set and substitute an arbitrary sound track prerecorded on your tape recorder street sounds music conversation recordings of other television programs you will find that the arbitrary sound track seems to be appropriate and is in fact determining your interpretation of the film track on screen people running for a bus in piccadilly with a sound track of machine-gun fire looks like 1917 petrograd you can extend the experiment by using recorded material more or less appropriate to the film track for example take a political speech on television shut off sound track and substitute another speech you have prerecorded you can hardly tell the difference isn’t much
      possibilities are unlimited you want to start something violent put your machines in the street with recordings move fast enough you can stay just ahead of the human wave surf boarding we call it no margin for error recollect poor old burns caught out in a persian market recordings of hogs in a mosque hid under his jellaba and they skinned him alive raw peeled thing writhing there in the noon sun and we got the picture
      do you get the picture
      you want to bring down the area go in and record all the ugliest stupidest dialogue the most discordant sound track you can find and keep playing it back which will occasion more ugly stupid dialogue recorded and played back on and on always selecting the ugliest material cut your ugly tapes in together speed up slow down play backwards inch the tape you will hear one ugly voice and see one ugly spirit made of ugly old prerecordings the more you run the tapes through and cut them up the less power they will have cut the prerecordings into air into thin air
on the other hand if you select calm sensible reactions for recordings and playback you will spread calmness and good sense
      is this being done
you have an advantage which your opposing player does not have of not needing to conceal your manipulations but can advertise it making you the news look at the hot shot kid storming the reality studio
      illusion as a revolutionary weapon
      there is one game from here to eternity here I have described a number of weapons and tactics to be used in the game which is only threatened by changing consciousness that could call the game itself in question
the invisible brothers are invading present time

LANGUAGE FORMULATING UNTRUTHS IMPOSES ERROR IN OUR THOUGHTS OF REALITY BLOCKING CHANGE & CHOICE
BE RID OF “IS” OF IDENTITY & INDEFINATE STATIS NO CHANGE PERMANENT CONDITIONS REMAIN FOREVER
BE RID OF DEFINATE ARTICLE “THE” & NOT ONE THING NOT ONLY WAY. REPLACE WITH “A” & MANY ONES WAYS
BE RID OF “EITHER/OR” & NO MORE THIS OR THAT RIGHT OR WRONG. REPLACE WITH “AND” & OPTIONS RANGE