I think maybe the above got lost in the shuffle. It only occurred to me as I was writing that post & I figured it was self-explanatory; but in case it wasn’t, what I meant by it was: suppose the enactment was orchestrated by people within CERN who wanted to make a subversive/disruptive statement about the organization regarding things going on there, in the style of Anonymous, i.e., activism as theater? The aim might not even be to draw attention to the possibility of CERN being involved in ritual sacrifice (they might have deduced that people wouldn’t believe the act was real) but to embarrass and discredit the org by showing up its security, and making its staff look like a bunch of frat boys. It’s not hard to imagine high-level CERN operatives, assuming they weren’t in on it and being directed from higher up, getting a serious dressing down from their superodinates.
Various governments are investing billions of $ into CERN research, and they have the eyes of the world on them. Something like this is not supposed to happen. In this sense, it doesn’t make sense for people to be dismissing this as just a prank, because as a prank, it must be having some serious repercussions. Even leaving aside the highly charged content of the enactment (ritual murder, which is something that has been connected to NATO, & NASA, and other orgs; & occultism which has been linked to high-level government operatives like Aquino and Parsons), there’s still the matter of where it occurred and who it involved. CERN & CERN scientists are entrusted with some of the most groundbreaking research in the history of humankind, so this has got to be cause for concern, right? So how come it’s just a “spoof” for which some wrists are going to be seriously slapped?
As Agitprop Theater, it might not even relate to whistleblowing; it could be internal power struggle of some sort… This is just a hypothesis but at least it has the potential to dissolve the false dichotomy of prank vs. murder by introducing a third option.
Another thing I wanted to bring the discussion back to was Mac’s point about class being an unrecognized factor, both in the event and how it is being perceived. As Mac pointed out, we associate knife murders with black kids in ghettos or white trash on housing estates, not with the ruling class or the intellectual elite. This is a major disadvantage we are at, I think, when it comes to interpreting the motions of the ruling class (& is it far-fetched to wonder if, to work at CERN you would have to come from good stock and go through some sort of initiation ritual, a la Skull & Bones?): most of us have no inside knowledge of these sphere & we rely on the impression we’ve been led to adopt by that same class. We don’t associate the intelligentsia with crime (even if we are parapolitically savvy, we still don’t automatically make the link between high status and criminal behavior the way we do between low and same); and we don’t associate them with occult rituals, because we assume they are all secular-minded and scoff at all that stuff. But if we correct that lens according to what we know (some of us anyway), and think of this thing occurring within an intelligentsia elite who are largely comfortable with committing crimes, high and maybe low too, and who participate in occult practices, to one degree or another, how does the picture change?
I think I had another point, but I forgot what it was.
It is a lot easier to fool people than show them how they have been fooled.
