Blue Beam Conspiracy (pt. 2)

In December 2009 I discussed project Blue Beam with the blogger and mystic Neil Kramer:

“These inorganic beings who are putting forward memes like Blue Beam or this new movie about 2012…isn’t there a risk involved in that? For instance, if the Blue Beam conspiracy were to happen, that could be an event that would disrupt the day to day grind significantly. I would think that it would be profoundly disruptive to believe the Earth was being attacked by aliens…isn’t there always a risk to one of these psy-ops?”

His reply was interesting.

“I think the risks are very, very carefully calculated. So that there is practically zero percent chance of anything going wrong. Take the Revelation of the Method principle. It’s a technique of trauma programming whereby the dominance of the controller over the subject is amplified through the disclosure of their own control and this increases the submission. They show the unconscious how profoundly effected you are by how they control you. And there is nothing you can do about it. And you consent to it. You continue to give your power to this machine. ”

Listening to Neil talk, even as I understood that he was attempting to bring a positive message, I felt trapped.

Project Blue Beam, stories of space beams destroying the Trade Center towers, the notion of the Revelation of Method, what these conspiracy stories have in common is that the are all, at base, fatalist. The conspiracy is large. It’s older than Western Civilization. There are Galactic forces at work. In fact, it’s likely that the conspiracy is embedded into the fabric of reality itself.

Whatever the story, however grand the scale, the effect is always the same. This is the Revelation of the Method, and it’s easy to see how it can lead to a fatalistic attitude.

But perhaps what is less easy to see is just what this fatalism is and how it functions.

In Richard Taylor’s 1962 short philosophy book entitled “Metaphysics” he put forward a story and argument for fatalism as a coherent and indeed necessary philosophical position. Taylor told the story of a young Hoosier librarian with a chronic ulcer. This was the story of Osmo.

It began with a scribe who heard the voice of God. God said, “He of whom I speak is the one called Osmo.” And in this way over the course of many days God told the scribe one mind numbing detail about Osmo after another, and the Scribe, knowing his job, wrote all the details down. When the voice stopped the Scribe collected all that he’d written and sought a way to publish the facts as a book.

“He at first gave it the title The Life of Osmo, as Given by God, but thinking that people would take this to be some sort of joke, he dropped the reference to God.” -Richard Taylor, Metaphysics, 1962

The Life of Osmo was not a popular book, in fact many thought that it was quite a strange book as it didn’t have a story but was merely a collection of unrelated facts about a very ordinary person. Very few people purchased copies, very few libraries carried it, however one copy of The Life of Osmo was purchased by a library and this copy collected dust for many years until a librarian in Indiana, a librarian named Osmo, discovered it there.

Osmo was quite shocked to find the book at first, and then he became quite obsessed by it. He spent an afternoon reading about his life. The first few chapters convinced him that the book was accurate, but as he approached the end of the book his opinion of the work turned. He decided that the volume was ultimately unsatisfying. For one thing, the book was tedious, and for another it was far too short.

What was really disturbing was that the Osmo in the book died in a plane crash during a flight to Idaho during his 28th year. Osmo the librarian is terrified by this detail, and he commits to forego any possible plane trip to Idaho.

Ultimately, Taylor explains, Osmo died just as God predicted. During a flight to Portland Osmo panicked when his flight was waylaid by inclement weather and rerouted to Boise. Osmo’s very panic was what brought the plane down.

What happens after Osmo finds a book full of true statements about his future?

“Osmo’s extraordinary circumstances led him to embrace the doctrine of fatalism. Not quite completely, perhaps, for there he was right up to the end, trying vainly to buck his fate–trying, in effect, to make a fool of God, thought he did not know this, because he had no idea of the book’s source.”

One might think that taking a fatalistic perspective on life would lead one to suicide, or at least to passivity, but that is not how it works. The idea of destiny, the concept that the future is full of truth claims that could conceivably be known now and that, regardless of whether they are known or not, demonstrate conclusively that there can only be one possible future and not another, the idea of fate, doesn’t work as a brake on action, but rather motivates the fatalist to continue on with his useless struggle.

“Shall we (the fatalists) sit idly by, passively observing the changing scene without participation, never testing our strength and our goodness, having no hand in what happens, or in making things come out as they should? This is a question for which each will find his own answer. Some men do little or nothing with their lives, and might as well never have lived, they make such a waste of it. Others do much, and the lives of a few even shine like the stars.” -Richard Taylor, Metaphysics, 1962

In the above quote we find that even a pure, arid, and godless fatalism inevitably leads to a kind of Calvinism. Taylor’s description of how some men are idle and some active, some burn bright and some are dim, is nothing but a recapitulation of the doctrine of divine grace. If one wants to be close to God, if one wants to be among the chosen, there is nothing to do but wait and judge. That is, only by your own acts will you be able to determine what your spiritual nature was predetermined by God to actually be.

In the Blue Beam the US government is planning to stage a phony UFO event in order to foist a new religion onto the public and gain complete control of the population. 911 was a false flag attack meant to get everyone to accept the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Lifting a detail from the 911 conspiracy, the Anthrax attacks were staged in order to spread panic after the attacks in September and to create a pretext for blaming Iraq. Operation Gladio was the code name for a NATO “stay-behind” operation in Italy that implemented a strategy of tension including false flag attacks in order to stave off the threat of Communism after World War 2. Gladio was behind, for example, the Peteano massacre of 1972, an act of terrorism that was originally blamed on the Red Brigades.

Regardless of whether the conspiracy theory is absurd or possible, regardless of whether the story is based on rock solid evidence or pure conjecture, the structure of the story is often the same. The conspiracist tells us that history is staged for us. Your government concocts reasons for its policies based on pseudo-events and false flag attacks. Further, once you accept the reality of the conspiracy you find it impossible to view your government in the same way as before. What was your government is now no longer yours at all. Once the reality of Blue Beam is digested the most pressing question becomes: Who are the others?

The conspiracy offers various answers. The others are the Bildebergers, or they are the poeople who work on the Trilateral commission. Perhaps the others are are Galactic oversouls who have been manipulating the Earth for generations. But, whoever they are said to be, these others always function as Jews. That is, the others are always a group who stand in for the inconsistency, the contradiction, in society. Life is out of balance, the center doesn’t hold, and the more obvious the failure becomes the more necessary an imagined other becomes. There must be someone who is consistent, someone who is whole, somebody who knows.

Again, the problem with conspiracy theorists is that they aren’t paranoid enough. The truth is that fatalism lends support to unexamined attachments to the heroic free subject. The Blue Beam conspiracy of a phony UFO landing props up the story of secret alien contact. The relentless pursuit of evidence of US complicity in the attacks of 911 can prop up a belief that the US republic is the best of all possible political systems. Anti-semitic attacks on Jews as the inauthentic, homeless, neurotic, insidious, masters of the conspiracy that is modern life props up a faith in the logic of dispossession, inauthenticity, and neurosis that defines modern life.

Taylor posits that there are a set of truth claims about the past, and it is logically impossible for the past not to correlate with the set of truth claims that exist to describe it. That is, while we can imagine that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, that there was a conspiracy behind JFK’s assassination, we cannot imagine that a truth statement like “Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone” can retain its status as a truth claim unless Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Revisionists don’t require Time Machines.

Taylor’s next step is simply to apply this understanding of truth claims to future events. He says that there is a set of truth claims about the future, and the future therefore must correlate with this as yet undiscovered set of truth claims.

The problem is not in the logically coherent and necessary correlation between a set of truth claims about the future and the future itself, but in the presupposition of the truth claims.

The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan argued that it was always impossible to state the entirety of what was true. His argument can be considered as a version of Zeno’s paradox. That is, any given true statement will run up against an infinite regress if it attempts to justify its truth with other truth statements. You set off to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and you discover an infinite number of claims, of truth statements, even when you’re just describing his arrival at the book depository. Oswald’s relationship with the FBI, his relationship with his wife, his possible friendship with Jack Ruby, all of these are factors that create their own sets of truth claims. It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma.

Any set of truth claims that correlates with the totality of a past or the future event would have to be an infinite set. Therefore any such set of truths about an event would be impossible to utter. Taylor argues that his fatalism doesn’t rely on God in order to work, but since every set of truth claims for an event are necessarily inaccessible, since they constitutionally cannot be expressed as a totality, it seems obvious that the existence of such a set of claims relies on the positing of one who knows the set. And only God could accomplish the sort of knowing required.

Without this God the possibility that an infinite set of truth claims could exist is reduced to nothing. And without such a set of truth claims we are placed in the awkward position of having to simply decide.

Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? Was he a victim of MKULTRA? What planet was he from? Did Oswald kill Kennedy or did Kennedy stage his own assassination in order to entrap Oswald? Not all answers to these questions are of equal value. Some of the questions themselves are ridiculous, but without a set of hypothetical truth claims known in advance by God we can only subjectively arrive at our conclusions.

Every conclusion becomes an act of creation.

But, let us be clear. This does not mean that we are the source of our perceptions, the deciders of Real events. Rather this means that we are the aliens who stage fake UFO landings. We are the Jews, the disharmony, the gap. Ultimately we are the center that doesn’t hold. And that is a terrible responsibility.