Attack Ships on Fire wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
Bourne. 'The Bourne Ultimatum.' So why is that particular name, Bourne, being put in the faces of American youth with a spy movie, orz?
Can you figure that out?
Because Robert Ludlum picked it as the name of the spy-with-amnesia in his series of books 30-odd years ago.
There is nothing else to it Hugh. Freud's analysis "Sometimes a cigar is a cigar" is accurate some of the time.
Wrong. This is an exploding cigar. And Randolph Bourne is its victim.
I'm going off 'Klein/Kline' to show how the name game works yet again.
Why did Robert Ludlum pick the name Bourne and why has another author continued the book series which is now a movie series for youth with amnesia and hypno-programming being central to the plot?
How did that come to happen?
The writing of Randolph Bourne holds the answer to Robert Ludlum's writing.
One of the most famous and accurate anti-war essays was written by-
RANDOLPH BOURNE and called--
"WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE."
Randolph Bourne was a brilliant WWI-era writer who already had figured out the war profiteering system of social control to keep down the masses.
So the keyword "Bourne" was hijacked by Robert Ludlum and turned instead into an agent of war. Recall that I exposed how both of Bob Denver's most famous character names, Krebs and Gilligan, were names which were a threat to the war system.
And so is Mulder.
From Howard Zinn's 'People's History of the United States' --
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/WarHealth_PeoplesHx.html
"War is the health of the state," the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished, patriotism bloomed, class struggle was stilled, and young men died in frightful numbers on the battlefields-often for a hundred yards of land, a line of trenches.
Here's the entire Randolph Bourne essay, 'War is the Health of the State' --
http://www.bigeye.com/warstate.htm
>snip<
'War is the Health of the State'
by Randolph Bourne
.....
State has almost no trappings to appeal to the common man's emotions. What it has are of military origin, and in an unmilitary era such as we have passed through since the Civil War, even military trappings have been scarcely seen. In such an era the sense of the State almost fades out of the consciousness of men.
With the shock of war, however, the State comes into its own again. The Government, with no mandate from the people, without consultation of the people, conducts all the negotiations, the backing and filling, the menaces and explanations, which slowly bring it into collision with some other Government, and gently and irresistibly slides the country into war.
>snip<
That ain't the kind of writing that the Pentagon wants to pop up in young recruitable America's head when they see the name 'Bourne.' They want that displaced with less threatening associations.
So Ludlum was either a witting or unwitting tool helping to make spycraft into fun fiction with the name 'Bourne' thereby minimizing the reality of whatever subject he touched and eating up the bandwith of readers who might accidentally read about real spy crimes as exposed by real CIA whistleblowers like Marchetti or Agee or Stockwell or McGehee or Levine or...
This is how Tom Clancy serves TPTB, too, as a safe attention sponge on a dangerous topic.
Clancy was interviewed on network TV on 9/11 because it looked just like one of his books and he's treated as if he is the real deal. How's that for confuse-etainment?
So he was brought in to review a competitor's plot and characters for us.
"I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV." But Clancy probably is the real deal in author disguise like many others, Robin Moore, Robert Condon, William F. Buckley, E. Howard Hunt, and Anthony Burgess come to mind.
How does the 'Bourne' movie's plot anchor, amnesia, serve the PTB?
The hypno-programming of Sirhan Sirhan is now being supported in CIA media because that is the second level of cover story in the CIA's murder of Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. The first level was "angry Arab gone nuts." But now the hypnosis angle is known and will hide the truth for many who don't look to the third level.
The 40th anniversary of the murder is coming up in June of 2008 and we are being encouraged to embrace the second level cover story of a Manchurian Candidate even though forensics proves the third level where the truth is proven - Sirhan didn't kill RFK and was probably firing blanks while RFK's bodyguard, Thane Eugene Cesar, did the fatal shooting.
Ludlum did not just make stuff up. He researched. Who knows how he came to use the name 'Bourne?' Being cleverly ironic? Someone helping with research suggest it?
The diversion effect is the same, witting or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum
With the exception of occasional gaps in his knowledge of firearms, his novels are meticulously researched, replete with technical, physical and biological details, including research on amnesia for The Bourne Identity.
Ludlum's novels were often inspired by conspiracy theories, both historical and contemporary.
Hey, Yahoo spooks. Boo to you, too.
You know your egos are secretly thrilled to have your tricks noticed. Don't pretend you like hiding behind the one-way cyber-mirror instead of being stars like Naomi Klein. You've chosen to work as Nazis. Repent!
