They Live, We Sleep: How the Control of Data Allows an Invisible Government to Rule in Secret.
In the prescient and
unsettling-but-realistically-surreal alter-reality 1988 cult classic
They Live directed by John Carpenter, there are many clues about the
real-life police state scientific dictatorship we’re all living under
today.
Before the pivotal, iconic turning point when Rowdy Roddy Piper first puts on the Hoffman sunglasses
and sees the very first subliminal billboard to “Obey,” there is
another subtle message for the police state technocracy to come….
The regular billboard – before revealing the hidden message “Obey” – carries an advertisement for a company called “Control Data” and reads, “We’re creating the transparent computing environment.”
Via Wikipedia: “Control Data Corporation (CDC)
was a supercomputer firm. CDC was one of the nine major United States
computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM,
Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and
UNIVAC. CDC was well-known and highly regarded throughout the industry
at the time.”
During the sixties, CDC created what were considered the fastest computers in the world at the time.
“We’re creating the transparent computing environment…”
What sad irony when considered in the context of
a movie where an alien race is using that same “transparent” system to
control everyone’s minds through frequency manipulation and subliminal
messages.
Control [of] Data, yes?
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