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Beware of the psychic probe and the Mule (Derren Brown)!
Very important note made on the 3rd of July 2007: I realised that CD players are alive (!!!), in that they fail to play tracks properly in a huge variety of ways using some sort of extra-sensory perception (ESP). Some people think that tracks not playing properly are due to accidental scratches or smudges, and I used to think it was due to there being serious errors in the politics of the songs, but it has happened with many of my musical poems/songs and I know they do not contain such errors. It is clear that (since such actions have a big role to play in what I do, such as putting a better track or different CD on, eating a meal or attending an important political event) CD players are incredibly intelligent. But, for similar reasons, so are fridges, TVs, DVD players, freeview boxes, and even household items not containing any silicon chips. My brother once bought me Billy Joel’s record Storm Front – in the days before CDs where I mainly used vinyl due to appalling hisses, sound quality of cassettes, never mind their destruction due to them getting stuck in cassette players/walkpeople, although I generally taped all my own records worried that the stylus would scratch the records if I kept playing them on a record deck, and I taped my brother’s better records too. No matter how many times I played it, the track Leningrad always caused the stylus to jump and miss some of the song. Whether my brother Sean (having recently joined the MI5-infiltrated SWP at that time I think) realised that track would play badly before giving it to me as present, I do not know. That track is one of the most important ever written, since the Russian Revolution started in Leningrad, when it was called Petrograd (and was even earlier and is today known as St Petersburg). Besides, Joel also wrote the extremely political song We Didn’t Start The Fire (which I think has massive flaws in it despite some fantastic lyrics) and Uptown Girl (which perhaps has relevance to Martine McCutcheon). CDs are much better than records because they play badly in different places on different occasions on which you play them, whereas dust or scratches on records usually occur for random, and certainly very hard to predict even with the aid of pyschohistory.
The point of the very important note above is that Gaia is the same planet as Earth!!! Perhaps Galaxia is actually the same thing as God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Note: The following is one of the earliest documents that I put on my website, and is in need of a rewrite. I hope to do so in the fairly near future after studying Asimov's Foundation series again. For now, I will point you to details of the relevance of the series to my life and the history of my band Red Day/Galaxia (accessible by clicking on this link) and make some comments. I will also point you to a science fiction musical poem that I recently wrote about the Foundation series and other important science fiction including Doctor Who, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and the film Star Trek Insurrection.
Firstly, the most important of Asimov's books to read are Second Foundation (since it explains about how mind reading/control powers are used to ensure that the Seldon plan for a galactic revolution is adhered to) and Foundation's Edge (since it provides a very left-wing ending in contrast to the fascistic ending in the original trilogy of domination by a sort of master race with those powers). That is known as Galaxia, which was used as the extremely inappropriate name for a computer game by my brother Sean because he read the book before me, and is now the name of my revolutionary socialist band. After Foundation's Edge, you may like to read Foundation and Earth, since it ties up loose ends from the series. Of course, if you have time, you might like to read the entire series, perhaps in chronological order. The two prequels to the original trilogy are very interesting for the way Hari Seldon manipulated the Emperor of the galaxy; reading between the lines you can discover a lot about conspiracies going on in the world today from these books.
Secondly, I have put more information about mind reading/control powers on this website here, and created a “second-foundation” discussion group on the internet around the issue and Asimov's literature.
Finally, I have changed my mind about Asimov and myself being atheists. Asimov contradicted himself on this issue at times during his life, either indicating that he was confused on the issue or that he was carefully playing one set of conspiratorial organisations off against another, as he needed to do to keep playing a positive role in the bastion of capitalism known as the United States of America. I now regard myself as an agnostic (who thinks it is far more likely for God to be true than not) rather than an atheist, but have some original ideas about how the universe works which don't fit in with the ideas of any religion or orthodox science – see my pages on God and scientific theories for more information.
In my previous message on 'Socialism and Conspiracies', I said that I think the conspiracies have been going on since the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917. If they have been going on for so long, then surely someone would have tried to tell the world about them before now. Well, I think someone has, and I think that someone was Isaac Asimov.
It is no accident that Asimov was a science fiction author. Science fiction allows you to write about scientific advances that may have already been made, but that are kept secret from the general public, as well as allowing you to speculate about scientific advances that may be made in the future. Also, basing your stories in the future can be a way of outwitting your enemies who wouldn't allow similar stories based in the present day to be published - the stories seem less of a threat.
I have been a fan of Asimov since my childhood. I have read all his novels that I could get my hands on as well as many of his short stories - I much prefer his novels. Asimov has also written a lot of non-fiction but I have not read much of it. Asimov has often been praised for writing about science in a way that is accessible to the layperson, and I recently bought a Guide to Science that he had written which seems very good.
Asimov described himself as a Jew and he has written a lot about the Bible (old and new testaments). It is important to point out that Asimov also described himself as an atheist. In case anyone is wondering, I am a quarter Jewish and I'm also an atheist.
I think that there are a lot of hints about conspiracies that are going on scattered throughout Asimov's work. There are probably hints in the works of many other intelligent authors - you can't help revealing things about the world you live in. However, I think the hints in Asimov's work are big enough to indicate that Asimov was consciously playing a role of letting the general public know what has been going on and what lies in store for the human race.
The biggest hints about the conspiracies that are going on are contained in Asimov's epic Foundation series. The key concept in this series was 'psychohistory', which is used to predict the future by studying the actions of masses of people - there are obvious parallels with Marxism here. In the novels, Hari Seldon and a small group of fellow 'mathematicians' composed a plan for the future of humanity - involving the replacement of the old Empire that was decaying around them by a newer better more humane Empire. There are obvious parallels here with the replacement of the decaying capitalist system by a better more humane system via a world socialist revolution.
So the 'Seldon plan' was a blueprint for a revolution mapped out in advance. It was very complicated and had lots of conditional bits that only came into effect if certain circumstances arose. Although the important parts of it were fully mapped out in advance, it was continually modified as processes developed to take into account unforeseen circumstances. I believe that a similar plan for the world socialist revolution has been drawn up by conspirators on the side of the working class.
It is important not to take Asimov's novels too literally. I think Seldon massively underestimated the role of individuals in history to the extent of being able to predict exactly when 'Seldon crises' would occur. I also think the 1000 year time span is a red herring; there is no way a revolution should take that long, even if it is occurring for the whole galaxy rather than a single planet (which is obviously where the real revolution will take place).
There is another aspect of the Foundation series which is highly relevant to the conspiracies that are going on. Asimov explained how a tiny proportion of the population evolved limited mind reading and mind control powers. People with these powers are able to read some thoughts in the minds of other people (but not the deepest layers of the subconscious). They are also able to 'nudge' people a little in a certain direction - to take a decision that they need a little more 'encouragement' to make. If there are at least two such people in the same room, then, acting together, their mind control powers are magnified considerably. In Asimov's work, people with these powers are gathered together in the secret Second Foundation. There is also a 'mutant' called the Mule with much greater powers (and I have no idea whether such strong powers are possible in reality).
So why do I think these mind reading/control powers are more than just fiction? Well, I have witnessed them first hand on two occasions in the past couple of years. On one occasion, I was persuaded to make a decision which I was 100% determined not to make beforehand, in a meeting with two other people - and looking back, the arguments they used shouldn't have been at all convincing. On another occasion, I held a 'conversation' with someone else by thinking certain thoughts and watching his responses - he could definitely read those conscious thoughts.
I think that there are important hints in Asimov's later novels, as well as in the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation). I view Gaia/Galaxia as similar to the future communist society envisaged by Marx and Engels (a stateless society based on cooperation unlike the Stalinist states which have been misnamed 'Communist'). However, it is important to point out one thing that is pure fiction – the 'humaniform' robot R. Daneel Olivaw, who also has mind reading and mind control powers, and directs everything behind the scenes. I also think that the 'second Foundation trilogy' novels, written by different authors after Asimov supposedly died, are well worth reading too (but read Asimov's novels first, and don't take these other novels too literally either).
Finally, I'll issue a warning: it is probably safer to buy the books from a bookshop rather than from the internet. I bought an Asimov book called Magic from Amazon which was so bad that I suspect that they produced a new version of it, or that Asimov never wrote a book with that title. If you live in the UK, I recommend Waterstones or WHSmith (or Borders in Scotland).
The Asimov novels are, in chronological order:
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
The second Foundation trilogy novels are, in chronological order:
Foundation's Fear, by Gregory Benford
Foundation and Chaos, by Greg Bear
Foundation's Triumph, by David Brin
