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“Watched” -The Cybernetic Prison State
The Cybersyn project was inspired in
part by a design of a prison which is
one enormous tower of several stories, but no interior walls, so that
they’re no privacy at all. The prisoners must see and be seen not only
by guards by the other prisoners. The idea was to psychologically
induce the feeling of constantly being watched. Theoretically this makes
everybody behave. (Or “bee hive”).
by Richard Evans
(henrymakow.com)
“On a ship, if a man having the power to do what he likes, has no intelligence or skill in cybernetics *, do you see what will happen to him and to his fellow-sailors?” — PLATO, Socrates’ famous metaphor for “ship of State” in the Alcibiades I dialog.
*[kybernetikes = navigation in English.]
CYBERNETICS is a term misunderstood by the general public. It’s not about turning man into a machine. ‘Transhumanism’ has been pushed in science fiction movies since the 1950′s to cloud the real definition.
For social engineers and ‘governance planners’, cybernetics is a way of looking at anything that moves in space and time, in terms of system mechanics. The innovation was to include biological, living organisms in the definition. It doesn’t mean “you are a machine”. It means the cybernetics engineer will look at you as a system of operations.
This way of thinking enables engineers to treat human beings and society with the same efficiency they design and build highway systems.
It’s about social control and social engineering. This field is the origin of terms like “human resources” and “human ecology”. It works on the mass, the collective of humans. Individuals are a problem for them; some are less predictable. Arthur Koestler’s wonderful term “The Ghost in the Machine” was a reference to this “problem”. Here is an introduction to Cybernetics and it’s history in six minutes.
Project Cybersyn was a Marxist wet dream, the first attempt to impose a computerized, cybernetic Socialist infrastructure upon a country.
(left, Presidio Modelo prison in Cuba, 2005)
The Cybersyn project was inspired in part by the “Panopticon” concept of 18th century “utilitarian philosopher” Jeremy Bentham. That was a design of a prison which is one enormous tower of several stories, but no interior walls, so that they’re no privacy at all. The prisoners must see and be seen not only by guards by the other prisoners. The idea was to psychologically induce the feeling of constantly being watched. Theoretically this makes everybody behave. (Or “bee hive”).
CHILE
In 1970, Salvadore Allende, a man that looked like a flamboyant college professor was democratically elected President of Chile. A medical doctor by profession, Allende, like Obama, gave beautiful speeches about equality and social justice, hope for a bright future for Chile, and “change”.
Dr. Allende was both a Marxist and 3rd generation Freemason [1], with direct support from Fidel Castro. Once elected, he proceeded to restructure Chile away from a free enterprise democracy into a Marxist dictatorship of the Proletariat.
He imposed the same Marxist policies that were implemented by all Communist revolutions from Lenin to Mao. US relations went sour when he nationalized the Chilean copper industry with confiscation privately owned land and assets. Allende thought the Soviet Union would replace foreign investments lost from the US, as they had done for Castro. Instead, Brezhnev snubbed him.
Result: by 1971 the Chilean economy collapsed with an inflation of around 700%. [2] Consequently the fragile coalition with the social democrats fell apart. A majority in Parliament turned against Allende and attempted to legislatively halt Allende’s policies, but the regime refused to accept Parliamentary and judiciary decisions. Imagine if Obama simply ignored acts of Congress, and seized private property by executive orders in the middle of an economic collapse.
It was in this atmosphere that El Presidente Allende dispatched his ‘Czar’ of Nationalized Factories, Fernando Flores, to England to meet a hippie-looking technocrat named Stafford Beer, who was a staunch socialist who believed that cybernetic theory is the key to realizing Plato’s Republic.
Stafford Beer (1924-2002, Manchester) was a guru – the protean information technology age guru – imitated by late comers like red diaper baby Richard Stallman (founder of the GNU open source project).
By August 1973, Chile’s Parliament passed a resolution declaring that the Allende Government sought “. . . to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the State . . . [with] the goal of establishing a totalitarian system”, claiming it had made “violations of the Constitution . . . a permanent system of conduct.” [3]
After Allende was overthrown by General Pinichet om September 11 1973, the Fascists regime never figured out how to use the technology Project Cybersyn, but the CIA did. Think about that the next time your staring at a traffic camera, while you’re sitting at a stop light thinking about turning right before the turn signal, when there’s nobody around, except the cameras.
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[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://es.metapedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsalvador%2Ballende%2B%252B%2Bmetapedia%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D517
[2] Twenty Years of Inflation and Stabilization in Chile (1973-1998) . Sebastian Edwards.
[3] From the 1973 resolution, English translation on Wikisource.
Note: Eduardo Mackenzie, Chilean author of the entry on Allende in the Spanish language Metapedia offers a third version of Allende’s death:
Allende was murdered by one of his Cuban bodyguards on orders from Fidel Castro. Castro’s gift of the AK-47 to Allende may have been a reminder of his Masonic oath: Allende was expected to commit suicide – or be ‘suicided’ – if he failed.
Source: http://henrymakow.com/2014/05/watched--the-cybernetic-prison.html
