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“A couple hundred thousand years ago, a version of us emerged that’s more or less what we think of as ‘ourselves’ now. This group consisted of about 3,000 people. Three thousand people! That’s how close we came to not being able to have this Zoom call.”
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The pride and prejudice and zombies we need now...
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adam
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But one Sanders’ quote feels instructive: “It was a bunch of people trying to be creative when there was nothing we could actually do to stop the war” (quoted in this scholarly treatment of the religious semiotics of the event: gwern.net/doc/history/... )
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Daniel Ellsberg was inside, standing next to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara: "So he was at one window and I was at another… Neither of us said anything. He just stood there… I wanted to see the expression on his face when they succeeded in levitating the building. But that didn’t happen."
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Visionary filmmaking weirdo Kenneth Anger was there, too. An Aleister Crowley acolyte, he took things seriously: He put 93 talismen in bathrooms throughout the Pentagon the day before. During the exorcism, he was under the Fugs’ flatbed truck, burning something and hissing at the man from Newsweek.
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Sanders, who had studied Classics at NYU and could read Egyptian hieroglyphics, consulted with Smith on the text for the exorcism, which combines a Hittite incantation with Sanders’ ..... unique strain of sex positivity
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They had also made arrangements to drop a shit-ton daisies over the Pentagon from a small plane. The FBI wasn’t crazy about that idea — but they did let our heroes keep the daisies.
Memorably, many of the flowers ended up slotted into the gun barrels of the MP’s outside the Pentagon.
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When performing a levitation, it can't hurt to invoke the spirit of Egyptian sky goddess Hathor, so Sanders asked Fugs’ producer and all-around occultist Harry Smith to requisition a cow, painted with ancient mystical symbols. (The cow was also, unfortunately, confiscated.)
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But what do you actually need to exorcise/levitate a building? Cornmeal, for one thing, to create the field of containment. Merry Prankster Paul Krassner was sent to Iowa to acquire a supply, but it was confiscated later when they “tested” it on the Washington Monument.
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For example, how many people do you need to surround the Pentagon?
Hoffman and a friend went to D.C. to find out. Strolling the perimeter & doing some counting, they got arrested for littering, on account of some leaflets.
The friend, Martin Carey, wrote about it in the "East Village Other":
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Fed source to me: “It’s like a bank heist and the bank is America. Not really being hyperbolic to say control of those systems would allow an extremely fast collapse of the economy. Imagine it’s a plumbing system and someone takes a sledgehammer to the central pipe.”
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Truly. Just so dumb. Worrisome when I have the thought "maybe just a little AI could help those guys..."
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We drove past the Watergate hotel this weekend and my kid said "Wait, something happened there, right? Why is it famous?" And let me tell you, they regretted that almost instantly.
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Cannot wait!!
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Nice try buddy.