"Burroughs, William S. - The Electronic Revolution" - читать интересную книгу автора (Burroughs William S)

parks and soccer fields. Illusion is a revolutionary weapon:


TO SPREAD RUMORS
Put ten operators with carefully prepared recordings out at rush hour and
see how quick the words get around. People don't know where they heard it but
they heard it.

TO DISCREDIT OPPONENTS
Take a recorded Wallace speech, cut in stammering coughs sneezes hiccoughs
snarls pain screams fear whimperings apoplectic sputterings slobbering
drooling idiot noises sex and animal sound effects and play it back in the
streets subway stations parks political rallies.

AS A FRONT LINE WEAPON TO PRODUCE AND ESCALATE RIOTS
There is nothing mystical about this operation. Riot sound effects can
produce an actual riot in a riot situation. RECORDED POLICE WISTLES WILL DRAW
COPS. RECORDED GUNSHOTS, AND THEIR GUNS ARE OUT.

"MY GOD, THEY'E KILLING US."
A guardsman said later: "I heard and saw my buddy go down, his face covered
in blood (turned out he'd been hit by a stone from a sling shot) and I
thought, well this is it." BLOODY WEDNESDAY. A DAZED AMERICA COUNTED 23 DEAD
AND 32 WOUNDED, 6 CRITICALLY.

Here is a run of the mill, pre-riot situation. Protestors have been urged
to demonstrate peacefully, police and guardsmen to exercise restraint. Ten
tape recorders strapped under their coats, playback, and record controlled
from lapel buttons. They have pre-recorded riot sound effects from Chicago,
Paris, Mexico City, Kent/Ohio. If they adjust sound levels of recordings to
surrounding sound levels, they will not be detected. Police scuffle with the
demonstrators. The operators converge. turn on Chicago record, play back,
move on to the next scuffles, record playback, keep moving. Things are
hotting up, a cop is down groaning. shrill chorus of recorded pig squeals and
parody groans.

Could you cool a riot by recording the calmest cop and the most reasonable
demonstrator? Maybe! However, it's a lot easier to start trouble that to stop
it. Just pointing out that cut/ups on the tape recorder can be used as a
weapon. You'll observe that the operators are making a cutup as they go. They
are cutting in Chicago, Paris, Mexico City, Kent Ohio with the present sound
effects at random and that is a cutup.

AS A LONG RANGE WEAPON TO SCRAMBLE AND NULLIFY ASSOCIATIONAL LINES PUT DOWN
BY MASS MEDIA

The control of the mass media depends on laying down lines of association.
When the lines are cut the associational connections are broken.