Viddy well my brothers... Viddy well - More Peels from the MK-Orange

  A Clockwork Ultra

  On the surface, PWS (pre-wild speculation) A Clockwork Orange is a film masterpiece based on the book by Anthony Burgess about a youth culture violence in a near future society. The main character, Alex DeLarge leads a violent gang that rapes and beats it's way through life until he's caught, entered in an experimental rehabilitation project. In the British version of the book, there is a final chapter where Alex eventually matures enough to regret his violent, lawless youth.
   I once found a discussion board which attempted to answer what was the meaning of the film. I recall the Kubrick was mentioned only in passing while the majority of focus was on the book. Much speculation was around Burgess searching for meaning after he and his wife were assaulted in a home invasion.


 

I don't know if that is true. I should also mention I haven't read the book.

   Now, I will commence with the wild speculation, utilizing the works of Kubrick, Miles Mathis and Adam Gorightly. All inaccuracies and conclusions are mine, and I refer you to works of these individuals on their own merit, not on my interpretation. I'm obviously not in their league as researchers or writers.

Also, here's link to a great article regarding the book and film by Theodore Dalrymple:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_1_oh_to_be.html

The Act, the Masks, the 'Shadows in the Mirror' 

McDowell stated "If Kubrick hadn't been a film director he'd have been a General Chief of Staff of the US Forces. No matter what it is—even if it's a question of buying a shampoo it goes through him. He just likes total control." 
Filming took place between September 1970 and April 1971, making A Clockwork Orange the quickest film shoot in his career. - Wikipedia  (emphasis mine)

 

Examples of Eyes Wide ...

My speculation begins with the correlation of the film with the Manson Family murders.



Miles Mathis regarding Paul Tate:

"In 1959, the Tates moved to (Cafe?- FN)Verona, Italy, where Paul Tate was stationed at Passalacqua, the headquarters for SETAF (Southern European Task Force). This links him to Operation Gladio. General Maletti—commander of Italian military intelligence at the time of the Tate murders—later testified in court that the CIA had been involved in many false flag operations in Italy and Europe, including murders and bombings, “for the purpose of creating an Italian nationalism that was capable of halting what it saw as a slide to the left.” Sound familiar? Maletti added, “Don't forget that Nixon was in charge and Nixon was a strange man, a very intelligent politician but a man of rather unorthodox initiatives.” Nixon was in charge in 1969, but Operation Gladio had been instituted by Allen Dulles much earlier, and it was financed in large part by the US, through the CIA, which Dulles led under Eisenhower and Kennedy (1953 to late 1961). The Operation kicked into high gear in the late 50's to counter growing “leftist” movements, especially in Italy. We must assume that is why Paul Tate was in Verona in 1959 with his family. Paul Tate was not just military, he was a colonel in intelligence, which indicates he was probably involved in Gladio."

Manson 69 - 70 CWO - 71

Sharon Tate and Slim Pickens:

Viddy Well, My Brothers - A short piece about Clockwork Ultra

Peeling an MK- Orange

   Let me state now that I believe that the primary theme of Clockwork Orange is mind control.

   Allow me to quote from an interview with Kubrick regarding CO:

"The central idea of the film has to do with the question of free-will. Do we lose our humanity if we are deprived of the choice between good and evil? Do we become, as the title suggests, A Clockwork Orange? Recent experiments in conditioning and mind control on volunteer prisoners in America have taken this question out of the realm of science-fiction." 




   The similarities with MKULTRA (The documented CIA excursion into mind control) are ramapant.
The CIA pushed forward with MKULTRA with the idea that they were trying to keep up with Soviet and Chinese research demonstrated on POWs in the Korean War.


   Now, while I was researching the Clockwork Orange and Manson connections,

Michel Ciment: In your films the State is worse than the criminals but the scientists are worse than the State.

Kubrick: I wouldn't put it that way. Modern science seems to be very dangerous because it has given us the power to destroy ourselves before we know how to handle it. On the other hand, it is foolish to blame science for its discoveries, and in any case, we cannot control science. Who would do it, anyway? Politicians are certainly not qualified to make the necessary technical decisions. Prior to the first atomic bomb tests at Los Alamos, a small group of physicists working on the project argued against the test because they thought there was a possibility that the detonation of the bomb might cause a chain reaction which would destroy the entire planet. But the majority of the physicists disagreed with them and recommended that the test be carried out. The decision to ignore this dire warning and proceed with the test was made by political and military minds who could certainly not understand the physics involved in either side of the argument. One would have thought that if even a minority of the physicians thought the test might destroy the Earth no sane men would decide to carry it out. The fact that the Earth is still here doesn't alter the mind-boggling decision which was made at that time.

 

It's just my interpretation but it's just seems that Kubrick says one thing but means another. 'No sane man'? Was it the politicians that pushed to have the Hadron Collider move forward? I mean, after all, "...it is foolish to blame science for its discoveries..."

Then there's this piece that really snapped my head. Responding to a question about the level of violence in the film, Kubrick says:

"It is absolutely essential that Alex is seen to be guilty of a terrible violence against society, so that when he is eventually transformed by the State into a harmless zombie you can reach a meaningful conclusion about the relative rights and wrongs. If we did not see Alex first as a brutal and merciless thug it would be too easy to agree that the State is involved in a worse evil in depriving him of his freedom to choose between good and evil. It must be clear that it is wrong to turn even unforgivably vicious criminals into vegetables, otherwise the story would fall into the same logical trap as did the old, anti-lynching Hollywood westerns which always nullified their theme by lynching an innocent person. Of course no one will disagree that you shouldn't lynch an innocent person -- but will they agree that it's just as bad to lynch a guilty person, perhaps even someone guilty of a horrible crime? And so it is with conditioning Alex."

I feel like I'm hearing two very different things here. One is, that it was necessary to show the horrible things Alex does, in order to balance what the state does to him. If your goal is to show, "It must be clear that it is wrong to turn even unforgivably vicious criminals into vegetables..." then why do you need to make it difficult to see the State is '...involved in a worse evil...?" Am I missing something?

I also feel that Kubrick's answer is a powerful statement against mind control and the manipulation of public opinion, no matter what the motivation behind it. In the beginning of the interview with Ciment, he states,

 Is this what Kubrick referred to as a decision made by politicians? 

The shadow that MKULTRA casts is larger than many realize. 

So my point is, was Kubrick speaking from the viewpoint of a guilty conscience? Or as a possible victim or witness to other victims?

For the Moon is hollow, and I have touched the sky...

This will put the 'wild' into 'wild speculation' for this blog. Please suspend your disbelief for a few moments.

   What if JFK was ultimately assassinated because of the Apollo program? If anyone read the King Kill post, you are vaguely familiar with the work of James Shelby Downard and his theory of the Grand Masonic Conspiracy.
   Just to recap some salient points for this blog:

   The actual assassination was carried out by a cabal, including but not limited to:

• Rogue elements of the CIA and Military Industrial Complex
• Elements of international organized crime
• Anti-Castro Cubans

   These groups worked for their mutual benefit but there was a higher organizing principle which I doubt they even perceived. At the heart of the operation was a ritual oriented group who planned the assassination at a strategic level. This included having the regicide take place close to the 33rd Parallel and other assorted details to meet their needs.
   To what end? To ultimately control the 'dreaming mind' or what Jung would term the collective unconscious of man. Wild stuff indeed. What I'm adding to the mix is, that the final trigger, so to speak (RAW, you are missed) was the fact that the cabal wanted to profit from a space race and go so far as faking a Moon landing but knew JFK wouldn't go for it.
   So the plan to rake in billions for NASA, which the intelligence community, military industrial complex and others would get the lions share of, was in place. There was just one fly in the ointment.

   Whereas if Tricky Dick had won the election, he would have not only committed U.S. forces to the Bay of Pigs, he would be much more amiable to a fake Moon landing (which, if you believe it was faked, took place on his watch in '69).
   So the Intelligence community and Mafia were in it for self preservation, the military industrial complex to start the Viet Nam war and clean up on government NASA contracts, the Anti-Castro... well you get the picture. But the Organizing Principle (OP) was in it to preserve the lie of the Moon race.
   Let's be clear, the Organizing Principle is not American, or limited to any nationality. To wit, Kennedy called for space cooperation with Khrushchev and the Soviet Union, not a race and there exists a memo to the effect that NASA was to start working toward that. Within less than a year both leaders were gone.
   I now raise the stakes. What if the cabal never intended to go to the Moon? I give you the works of Christopher Knight and Alan Butler as well as Louis Proud. 
   Both books deal with lunar anomalies with Proud's book dipping into some of the more esoteric theories including Gurdjieff's statement that humanity is food for the Moon.
   What if the goal of NASA was just to build rockets, wow the public and collect money? Then the political rhetoric of the cold war  turned it into the Moon race which the OP knows can't happen. Why? Because there's stuff going on there that we can't know about. Whether it's the Moon is artificial and houses our alien overlords or is a life form which harvests our souls, they never intended to really go there. Along comes Kennedy with his guarantee and now they must act. So now they pay attention to their complaining constituents in the cabal and say 'Boys, have we got a ritual for you... I mean, yeah, let's get rid of the bum."
   Just really, REALLY wild speculation. Let's get even wilder. What if Bobby and JFK Jr heard rumors of the real motivations for the hit?

 What does all this have to do with Kubrick? Well, if you follow the 'Kubrick faked the Moon landings" meme, that part is obvious.
   Is it possible Kubrick was aware of Kennedy's fate? Recall there was a deleted scene from Dr. Strangelove where there's a pie fight in the bunker. At one point Peter Sellers as President Muffley gets a pie to the face.

 The line that follows, "“Gentlemen...our beloved president has been infamously struck down by a pie in the prime of his life! ”

   Also, if you subscribe to my theory that he got a peek at the OP and wanted to tell someone,then you have this final tidbit. Memorializing previous events is one thing. Prediction is another.
   Kubrick died on March 7, 1999. He specified that EWS had to be released on July 16, 1999. As many have pointed out, it was the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. That's probably the reason. However, maybe he wanted to draw attention to an event that had not occurred yet.

July 16, 1999 was the date that John Jr's plane disappeared.

Till we meet again.

When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro...

   I love wild speculation. I also love speculation that has the slightest glimmer of the possibility of being true.
  One example is the many occult students and writers who follow the path blazed by Kenneth Grant regarding my favorite writer H.P. Lovecraft. Namely that Lovecraft was not just a fiction writer but an occultist who was either consciously or unconsciously revealing occult truths in his work.
Grant speculates where Crowley was trained and immersed in Ritual Magick and secret societies, Lovecraft was a 'natural' or unconscious occultist. Or he may have even been in contact with a group but kept that hidden.
   All of Lovecraft's known voluminous correspondences and journal entries bespeak of his strictly materialist views and his disdain for spiritualism (ala Houdini) and Theosophy. However this hasn't  prevented any number of authors and bloggers from speculating that Grant was right. This mostly consists of examining the lives of Aleister Crowley and Lovecraft to see if their paths crossed. (They had the potential when both were in New York City for a brief time in the 20s). Or if they were just aware of the others work. (Lovecraft may have been aware of Crowley, as he was aware of Theosophy, no evidence Crowley knew about Lovecraft's work.)
  Many others have written their own grimoires based on Chaos Magick workings with the Great Old Ones (Lovecraft's creations). To be fair, some of those are written from the point of view that Lovecraft was a materialist but that the fervent following of his creations has established them as egregores, capable of action in the material world.
   The ones who feel there's more to Lovecraft and his creations than meets the eye includes the aforementioned Grant, Empire of the Wheel author Walter Bosely and the prolific Peter Levenda, who may or not be the author behind the nom de plume 'Simon' author of the 'real' Necronomicon.
By way of explanation, the Necronomicon is fictional grimoire created by Lovecraft.
   Anyway, I'd like to quote from Levenda's excellent work, 'The Dark Lord':
"In 'The Call of Cthulhu' Lovecraft reveals that the rituals required to summon the Great Old Ones involve orgies by people who are of mixed races ... This conflation of unbridled sexuality and exotic races and ethnicities is a common theme in colonialist literature and was a feature in the castigation of the practice of Tantra in India by the British colonizers."
  Why mention this? Well does anyone recall this scene in EWS?

Ok, now the initial scene involved synthesized music being played over an Orthodox Romanian rite played backwards. Once the orgy starts, Harford walks through the mansion to Indian music. The original scene called for a quotation from the Bhagavad Gita read in Hindi, that was later removed due to complaints from the Indian community.
   Also, we all know that the Somerton Mansion where the orgy takes place was shot in the old Rothschild Mansion, Mentmore Towers, right? Well, half right. The exterior was Mentmore Towers, the interior was Elveden Hall. To quote the Wikipedia entry for Elveden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elveden_Hall): 



"In 1849, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, ruler of the Sikh Empire and owner of the famous Koh-i-noor diamond was exiled to England, having been removed from his kingdom by the British East India Company.
The Maharajah purchased the 17,000-acre (69 km2) Elveden Estate in 1863 and set about rebuilding the country house and dressing it in an Italian style. However, he redesigned the interior to resemble the Mughal palaces that he had been accustomed to in his childhood. (emphasis mine)
Elveden Hall played host to a wide range of sporting activities but none rivalled the Maharajah's passion for shooting. His shooting parties were popular amongst aristocracy including Prince George, Duke of Cambridge."

Bizarre Tantric orgiastic rites filmed in a mansion that was used to housing parties of the elite? So was Kubrick a Lovecraft fan and believer? No. I'm not suggesting that, only that they arrived at a similar place by different routes. I believe, whether it is Satanic or Saturnian (as Weidner suggests, my suspicion is it's closer to Tantric) that Kubrick's Somerton group was in it for more than kinky kicks. I  believe they were 'feeding' something, invoking something... that would break through when the stars are right, as Lovecraft would say. That is one of my beliefs about the hidden meaning in Kubrick's films.  To summarize:

A. There is a hidden elite that the general public was not aware of in Kubrick's day. (They've at least heard about it now in the digital age)

B. That one of their goals is the emergence Artificial Intelligance

C. That this elite is in league with or serves another, non-human intelligence.

More on this later. Especially in regards to the Bear symbolism. Hint, like all of Kubrick's symbols is multi-layered. There's more to it than just Cold War symbolism.

Space Odyssey 2.0 - Brief post with a film recommendation

 
The study of Kubrick leads one to branch out and examine the works of other directors. I find the works of Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan to be especially interesting.

Nolan's Dark Knight series is arguably the best of the 'superhero' genre and there are many Kubrickian references in these films. Prime example, the use of the Rothschild estate, Mentmore, as the setting for Wayne Manor. But nothing prepared me for the complete homage that Interstellar is to Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001 A Space Odyssey.

I will only highlight some of the references as I highly recommend watching the movie on it's own merits and seeing for yourself.

SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen the movie, watch it first because there are definitely spoilers to follow.

In no particular order:

• The scene where Matt McConaughey goes to a meeting with his daughters teacher who insists the Moon landings were faked, not as a theory but this is being taught as history.
• The infamous bookshelf, in one of the close ups, we see a copy of Stephen King's The Stand. An apocalyptic movie with an apocalyptic book from the author who gave us The Shining.
•  The soundtrack, at peak dramatic moments, the held final organ note is reminiscent of Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001.
•  The wormhole detected by NASA orbits Saturn, in the original Arthur C Clarke story for 2001, the monolith sent it's signal to Saturn, not Jupiter.
• The wormhole was placed there to help humanity, the monolith was sent to evolve humanity.
• The journey through the wormhole is eerily reminiscent of Keir Dullea's journey to Jovian monolith.
•  The scene where McCoanughey loses his ship and is floating in space mirrors the final scene of 2001 with the cosmic fetus.
•  In 2001 they have the AI computer HAL, in Interstellar there's the AI computer/robot TARS.
• Whereas HAL had an order and agenda which almost killed the main character, the Matt Damon character has a similar agenda.

This is by no means exhaustive, there are many more. I will possibly spend another post focusing on one or two that I have not included here. I do believe Christopher is aware of many of Kubrick's themes and possibly understands the overall message concealed in Eyes Wide Shut.

Till we talk again.