{"id":109943,"date":"2014-03-21T20:08:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2014-03-21T20:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:08:36","slug":"the-rebel-artist-vs-the-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-rebel-artist-vs-the-android\/","title":{"rendered":"The rebel artist vs. the android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">The rebel artist vs. the android<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">~a short story~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">by Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">March 21, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomorefakenews.com\/\">www.nomorefakenews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">On January 12, 2061, President Winston Smith made a quick campaign stop in the Northeast corridor to address the Coexistence Group in Gates Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The Coexistence Group was a remnant of the old coalition formed between Monsanto and organic farmers in the state formerly known as New Hampshire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The President, dressed in a silk rainbow robe, donated to him by the Cosmic Guilders of Carpentry at the Foot of the Most Pleasant Rockefeller Estate, lit a candle at the Memorial of the Drifting Gene, to commemorate the inevitable triumph of genetically modified agriculture in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">He then gave a short speech, during which he pointed out that all food products in America were now labeled GMO because of the Gene Drift, and although such labeling was redundant, it was \u201critualistically correct,\u201d because it signified the right of the consumer to know what he\/she was eating. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A supper followed at the Inn of the Bill Melinda. The meal consisted of ceremonial gluten-free organic genetically modified soy-peanut burgers and GM whey cola.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">During the supper, a local artist stood up from his seat, toasted the President, and suddenly asked, \u201cWhat phase of brain programming do you now enjoy, Mr. President?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A hundred Secret Service agents deployed in the room and at other locations in the Inn immediately drew their weapons. But the President waved them off with a smile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">It&#8217;s all right,\u201d President Smith said. \u201cThis citizen has every right to address his Commander-in-Chief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The President then offered these off-the cuff remarks:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Actually, sir, there is no &#8216;I&#8217; anymore or &#8216;you.&#8217; There is only &#8216;we&#8217; because the programming is common to us all, if we volunteer for it. And 67 percent of us do. We are all connected to the same Google\/Kurzweil\/NSA Plasma Cloud Formation. That, as you probably know, is the artificial superbrain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">We receive input from it every second of every day. In other words, we are all obtaining correct answers, the same answers, to problems we face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Phase Four, which improves connectivity and reception, and takes in expanded subjects of interest and vital concern, is the current application. I, which is to say, we, participate in Phase Four. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">In Four, stress levels are reduced to a nine, on a scale from one to a hundred, where one is the lowest possible stress-count.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">We no longer need to take vacations, except for pilgrimages to sites where monuments celebrate our Nature Is All and Technology Is All and All Is One Everything religious faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">And you, sir,\u201d the President continued. \u201cAre you with a Program Phase?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The artist burst out laughing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">No, Mr. President. I&#8217;m a holdout.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Ah,\u201d the President said, \u201can outlier. We perceive you&#8217;re an artist, your name is Diego Jose Siqueiros. Yes, the information is coming through. You formerly lived in the small city of Ashland in the Northwest corridor, and you received a number of commissions to build structures there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">After twelve years, you designed and erected so many unique buildings, the city fathers feared that, if left to your own devices, you would &#8216;take over&#8217; Ashland. In the interest of fairness and sharing, they ceased funding your work. You drifted down to the Los Angeles Complex, where you created a website called Versus the Moron. Eventually, you settled here in the Northeast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">That&#8217;s right, sir,\u201d the artist said. \u201cA question. Do you remember a time when you weren&#8217;t connected to the superbrain in any way?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The President nodded. \u201cWe used to remember such a time, but no longer. Those memories became unproductive. Now we are here with the Program. We operate in it and with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">So you don&#8217;t miss being free?\u201d the artist asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Oh, we are free, Mr. Siqueiros. We are free to obtain the right answers through the Program. Having correct data and valid conclusions is quite liberating. The sense of struggle is gone. Struggle is an ancient appendage which technocratic evolution makes extinct.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Sir,\u201d the artist said, \u201cI would enjoy debating that point. The superbrain claims to have right answers, but why should I believe it? But I&#8217;d rather talk about imagination and the creative life. The invention of unprecedented and unpredictable realities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Oh,\u201d the President said. \u201cAnother fancy from the past. We&#8217;ve discovered that all art and in fact all so-called unique creations of the &#8216;I&#8217; are delusions The superbrain can &#8216;create&#8217; anything. It merely arranges and rearranges data in various configurations. It produces closed systems. For example, it can design a thousand buildings in less than a second.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The artist frowned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">No,\u201d he said. \u201cThe superbrain spits out random shapes on command. That&#8217;s machine-life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Machine-life?\u201d the President said. \u201cI&#8217;m receiving mild warnings now. That phrase is an RRT.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Meaning what?\u201d the artist said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">It&#8217;s a playful sub-sub category in the Program. RRT stands for rebellious rat tail. It indicates we are in the presence of a stubborn defective &#8216;I&#8217; who is scorning the Group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Mr. President,\u201d the artist said. \u201cWere you born of a human mother and father, or are you an artifact of the superbrain?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The Secret Service agents in the room took a step forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The President&#8217;s face turned red. He rose from his chair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">How dare you say that to me!\u201d he shouted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Why? Because I&#8217;m blowing your cover?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The artist then enunciated a long series of sounds. The declaration came out, as one attendee later put it, like a \u201cgray river.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Emwgrtyonefiftyfruntsillgreenefsevenlenstayeightcricrimescene&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Apparently, it was a code-trigger that had been hacked from the Program. And the code ran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A loud hum filled the room.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A few seconds later, the President collapsed back into his seat. He flopped around like a doll and then went still. His eyes stared at nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">As I expected,\u201d the artist said. \u201cHe&#8217;s a four-D printout from the superbrain. An agent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">A voice came from somewhere inside the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">Allen Dulles thirteen A seven branched MKULTRA&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Then a gentle man who manufactured a product called Organic Monsanto Cherry Vanilla With Roundup Cookies said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:large;\">It&#8217;s all right, everybody. There&#8217;ll be another President along in a few minutes. I&#8217;m sure of it. He&#8217;ll appear. We&#8217;re all in this together. We&#8217;re in coexistence mode. Don&#8217;t worry. The superbrain says we&#8217;re all One. Unity. The Tao. Yin and Yang. Night and Day. Harmony.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">And the room burst into wild applause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">The author of two explosive collections, <span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.mybigcommerce.com\/the-matrix-revealed-vol-1-cd-by-jon-rappoport-mega-info\/\" ><span style=\"font-size:large;\">THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.mybigcommerce.com\/exit-from-the-matrix\/\" ><span style=\"font-size:large;\">EXIT FROM THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-size:large;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-size:large;\"> District of California. 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