cut-up and fold-in method

How to destroy the reality that exists and create new one? This is “Playback from Eden to Watergate”. The reality of Eden was destroyed, by William S. Burroughs who thought that the written word was a virus made the spoken word possible and it ultimately could destroy the cells in which they lived. The aim was to achieve complete freedom from past conditioning and to rearrange the reality. One way to do this is the cut-up and fold-in method used by the writer. The most interesting experience was the realization that the cut-up pieces meant something and often that these meanings referred to some future events (this is rather mystification of reality than rearrangement).

The control system is necessary to impose fear and prejudice. The word is one of the most powerful instruments of control as exercised by the newspapers and images. “If you’re absolutely bombarded with images from passing trucks and cars and televisions and newspapers, you become blunted and this makes a permanent haze in front of your eyes, you can’t see anything”, and to cut these up in order to rearrange them means breaking down the control system, the factors in mass media that are controlled and predicted: layout, the news, editorials and letters to the editor, which are selected in accordance with preconceived policy; advertisements. All control systems are basically similar, and according to the author the model system of a calendar of the ancient Maya throws light on modern methods of control. Any control system depends on precise timing. “The events, ceremonies, suggestions, pictures and planetary juxtapositions correlated with dates.”The controllers know what reactive commands they are going to re-stimulate in order to receive the desired consequence, they know what will happen.

To change something means to break down three basic formulas: one is the formula of a nation; the next is of course the family and finally, “the whole present method of birth and reproduction”. All people all over the world could communicate on certain fundamental levels, on sex, habits, drugs, pop music, a way of dressing, a way of life. There is not any substantial difference between Western and Eastern ways of thinking so we can make contact.