Rebooted for 2008. A curated collection of documents, open questions, and new material for R. Buckminster Fuller’s original “World Game.”

This was one of the very first Brainsturbator articles I wrote: I’ve totalled it today and built something better.  I think now is a good time to be talking about Bucky’s vision of a World Game.  We have the technology to do this and a new administration could easily provide the funding.  I don’t think any of this material is Utopian or far out, but if you do, let me know why. 

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In the face of a global economic catastrophe, I’m not paying much attention to the news. “Our leaders” are lying like always. Sure, there’s Big Changes ahead—but scaremongering and cynicism are a waste of precious life.  I’m actually more optimistic these days than I’ve ever been, and it’s all because of Africa. The most innovative solutions and inspirational success stories I’ve found are coming from the Mother Continent, and I can’t imagine a better remedy for American Fear than this.  No matter what kind of nightmare collapse scenario you can imagine for the United States, Africa has already been there and back.

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I wrote this for Nick Pell at Key 64.  I’m very glad he asked me to write it, because it did me a lot of good to get my thoughts organized, and the response to this piece has been huge.  I’m backing it up here because I like my formatting more, plus I fixed a number of typos.

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Awhile back, Nick Pell from Key 64 asked me to write an article for him, on the topic of “Ten Ways YOU Can Fight Fascist America.” After I got that done—and you can read it here—Nick generously offered to return the favor.  So I’ve asked him to write something for all of Brainsturbator’s younger readers.  I asked him to lay out a plan: “How to Destroy Your High School in Seven Days.”

I didn’t know if I’d get a magick ritual or a treatise on home explosives, but Nick surprised me and came with a truly interesting angle.  His recipe is something anyone can apply—in fact, our sick culture will do most of the work for you. He’s also got the personal experience to prove that it works.  I’m very happy to offer this, and since Nick has a lot to teach, I will now get out of the way.  Enjoy.

--thirtyseven

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I’ve got a very simple solution to winning the war on terrorism, and it’s best described as heavily armed pacifist philanthropy. So this will hopefully offend both sides of the meaningless Liberal vs. Conservative professional wrestling rivalry.  The key difference between most other approaches to the War on Terror and my own is simple: this approach is backed up by a total success rate and abundant historical proofs in plain sight. 

Peaceful non-violence works.  Specifically, it works as a secure and reliable system for major social change.  It worked for Martin Luther King, it worked for Ghandi, and most recently, it worked in the Ukraine.  By using this on a global level, the United States of America can enact global changes, and do so without creating resentment and hostility abroad.  Yes, this does mean I am proposing that the only way to win the War on Terror is to stop fighting it, immediately.

Philanthropy works.  Specifically, it works as foolproof method for changing how people percieve you and think of you.  It worked for the Rockefellers, for the Rothschilds, for the Carnegies and for the Kennedy family, too.  If the United States were to step up it’s foriegn aid to levels that made the United Nations look like broke amateurs, there is no question that this would create a positive image for the United States, worldwide, for decades to come.  It’s worth pointing out we could do this for less than the cost of existing “PsyOps” programs. Yes, this does mean I am proposing that the only way to win hearts and minds is to buy them, because it’s literally cheaper and more profitable than killing them.

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If you are interested in improving the world that you live in, I literally beg you to take this article into consideration.  I am not making an original point here.  I am repeating a very nescessary and important point.  The tools of social control have been decentralized, due to the rampant spread of information technology. 

I know hundreds, if not thousands, of good people who have a lot to offer and a lot to teach.  Nearly all of them hold the worlds of marketing, advertising, and public relations in total contempt.  They view it—rightfully so, I might add—as the modern equivalent of black magic, cheap tricks and malicious manipulation.  I am arguing that the only way that will ever be changed is if we get involved with that culture and do it better than the human turds who are currently running that particular circus.

I am not going to argue that I’m right.  I’m just going to lay out the tools that are at your disposal, every second of every day, and urge you to start exploring them and using them to get your message out to the world.  Becuase if you’re reading this, I have to assume you have something more signifigant and positive to say than “DRINK SPRITE” or “SUPPORT THE TROOPS”.

Are you interested?  Let’s begin.

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I thought I was a pacifist for years: I recently came to realize I’m merely a coward.  I suspect I’m hardly unique in this, but I leave it to other “pacifists” to decide for themselves.  After all, it’s certainly not a blanket statement—I’m not trying to imply that Martin Luther King was some sort of sissy, for instance, because it’s transparently obvious he was not.  I merely mean that for a white male living in Vermont, “pacifism” is more of an intellectual security blanket than an honest stance.

I know that Brainsturbator has readers in the military, and I know anyone with a brain is at least vaguely concerned about the future.  The military, like nearly every other organization on Earth, has been a little slow on the uptake in adapting to a rapidly changing planet.  Rather than aiming our microscope at the usual suspects like DARPAstien, we’ll be focusing on two exceptionally tasty source documents and then veering into some Aikido mysticism for a little while.  Hopefully y’all find this as interesting as I did.  If not, I WILL F***ING KILL YOU.

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As I get older, it becomes a comfort instead of an insult: I have never had an original thought in my life.  Everything I’ve ever thought up is at least a couple centuries old.  So when I was reading a newpaper article about the Iraq War (first one) on LSD and had this really crazy concept pop into my head...yeah.  Turns out I am not the first to consider giving everyone on Earth some good acid clarity.

It turns out there’s a lot of interesting growth under this particular rock—so let’s start poking and digging at the history of what DARPA refers to as “Incapacitating Weapons”, or the military applications of tripping your balls off.  We will visit the CIA, Iraq, a great horror movie, and all the usual hippie suspects from Leary to Hoffman.  Perhaps you’ll even be inspired to manufacture your own LSD and get to work as a free agent in the Illumination Industry.

Not that Brainsturbator would ever advocate something so irresponsible and illegal.

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We’re fortunate enough to live in Vermont, one of the last pockets of vestigal freedom in the US.  It’s a small state, full of beautifully psychotic people with no respect for the church and even less respect for the law.  Distance is perspective, and we’re thankful every day for the perspective our background and our environment gives us.

Here’s the lesson of the 2000 election, 9-11, Afghanistan getting invaded, Cheney committing treason and shooting a man in the face, White House lies being reported as news, the Iraq War, the 2004 election, and nearly everything conventional activists rage about: reality is literally dead. Crimes are committed in broad daylight and the victims will bitterly attack you for even mentioning anything happened. Old models no longer work, old approaches are doomed to failure.

What follows is a Brainsturbator tour of the new landscape, sumitted for your consideration.

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There are those who call Brainsturbator audacious.  There are those who call Brainsturbator retarded.  Both camps will be proven right by today’s installation, a look at Project Blue Beam, which was a US military investigation into a rather unique form of psyops.  The stated goal was to create gigantic holographic projections of God over large cities and use the ultimate magic trick to make urban populations surrender.  Sadly, the technology to pull this off has existed for awhile.

Of course, merely having a Big Jesus show up overhead and speak some choice words won’t nescessarily be enough to gain control over a population.  Pulling this off effectively would require a very subtle mastery of psychological warfare, but then again, we’re not exactly discussing amateurs here: this is the Military-Industrial Complex getting sweaty with the National Security State.

Rather than wringing our hands about what foul plans lurk in wings, we propose that we should beat them to the punch. Here’s why.

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