Greenspan Enters Saturday Box

(Conspiracy Nation, 09/15/07) – In “Hopeless Elders Issue Dire Warning” (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/HopelessElders.html), mention was made of the schizoid compartmentalization process. In the “Saturday Compartment,” shocking news does not exist, the opposite of the “Friday Compartment,” where crises abound. But Alan Greenspan, former “Federal” Reserve chief, has defied the box borders. Late Friday, his new book, “The Age Of Turbulence,” was being reviewed. Today, a Saturday, those reviews are being published.

Various perspectives on compartmentalization help to better understand it. In Pete Seeger's song, “Little Boxes,” the lyrics read, in part: “And the people in the houses, All go to the university, And they all get put in boxes, Little boxes all the same. And there's doctors, and there’s lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made outta ticky-tacky, And they all look just the same.”

A Google search on “Mind Compartmentalization” yielded these quotes:

The last quote, dealing with mind control and compartmentalization, is reportedly echoed in Naomi Klein's latest book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism.” According to a book review in Britain's Guardian newspaper, “Klein begins her first chapter with a moving account of a conversation she had with a victim of a covert programme of mind-control experiments, carried out in Canada in the 1950s, which used people suffering from minor psychiatric ailments to try out techniques of 'de-patterning' that aimed to scramble and reshape their personalities.” (“Naomi Klein's critique of neo-liberalism, The Shock Doctrine, is both timely and devastating,” by John Gray. The Guardian, September 15, 2007. http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2169201,00.html)

According to the review, “the idea that economic progress can be achieved through the devastation of entire societies has been a key part of the neo-liberal cult of the free market.” This is similar to Marxist ideas of Capitalism inevitably causing wars. In “Sad Truth About Agnes Smedley” (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/AgnesSmedley.html), she was reported to have predicted, in 1945, that the Capitalists would inevitably engineer yet another World War.

The Marxist “solutions” have been disastrously wrong, as detailed in The Black Book Of Communism (Harvard University Press, by Mark Kramer, et al.). However their analyses of Capitalist machinations are worth studying.

Contrary to expectations, as noted, Alan Greenspan has today entered the “Saturday box,” where all is ordered to be banal and placid. Based on various book reviews, an idea of his new book, “The Age Of Turbulence,” can be constructed.

Greenspan and his publishers had commanded that the book was absolutely not to be reviewed until Monday. The “Saturday box” was to remain sacrosanct. First to violate the “Saturday box” taboo was the Wall Street Journal. They somehow bought a copy of the book yesterday, three days before it is supposed to be released. USA Today asked the publisher if they too could do an advance report. With the “Saturday box” incursion already a fait accompli, USA Today received the nod. The floodgates opened, and a barrage of Greenspan news stunned schizoid minds accustomed to “Saturday box” banality.

Last year, Greenspan began writing “Age Of Turbulence” in his bathtub. He is glad there are underwater pens in case rubber ducky splashes the pages. Greenspan would hand the soggy papers to flunkies, who deciphered them.

The big news from the Greenspan book is that interest rates will rise to double-digit levels! This flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which says Ben Bernanke, current “Fed” boss, is about to lower rates this upcoming Tuesday. If Bernanke defies Wall Street and leaves rates as they are, expect howls of outrage from the financial press.

Equating Greenspan's “Turbulence” with Klein's “Shock Doctrine,” we basically see a version of Agnes Smedley's inevitable Capitalist war mongering.

Coming soon: The Sunday box. Recent discoveries by dwellers inside the Sunday box suggest there may be a previously unknown Saturday box. Although Sunday box skeptics scoff at the notion of a separate unknown compartment of “reality,” there are indications of a parallel box world on Saturday. The Saturday box, on its part, refuses to recognize any Sunday box. Nonetheless, some critics inside the Saturday box are urging, “Think outside the box.”

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