Timothy Leary’s “Oral Bio-Survival Circuit: imprinted by first mothering object, and conditioned by subsequent nourishment or threat. It retreats mechanically from the noxious or predatory, or from [associated memes] by imprinting or conditioning. If the mother isn’t present, the closest substitute in the environment will be imprinted. This imprint determines lifelong endocrine and glandular processes. If the universe in general and other humans in particular are imprinted as dangerous, hostile and frightening, The Prover [internalized interpreter] will adjust all perceptions to fit this map- the Injustice Collector Syndrome. Easily hurt, threatened, terrified by disapproval of any sort. Disapproval suggests extinction by loss of food supply. A man or woman entering a new situation with the anxiety chemicals of a frightened infant is not going to be able to observe judge or decide anything very accurately. ” Robert Anton Wilson, 1983
After first breath upon birth, sucking is our next seeking for a welcoming universe. Hustled off into bright lights and cold plastic by obstetric nurses for weighing, greeted with a piercing jab for a blood/sex vector “vaccine”, before attaching to mother’s teat is the first imprinting in the medicalized birth process. Treatments proffered by the Medical Monopoly create lifelong customers of its “helping hands”, from walking wounded to comatose consumer.
In my binge purge reading habit, Stephen King novels are occasionally gorged. Armageddon Insomnia fed on his 2023 horror crime fiction Holly. Without giving away too many plot points, it’s a detective driven thriller about serial killer cannibals in Ohio. Set in summer 2021, they’re also anti-vaxxers. The Horror.
Not because of Warp Speed experimental authorization injections, mRNA churning out rogue spike proteins, bolus injuries, magnetic microns, not even Snake Venom. The jabs are still perceived as “perfectly safe and effective” at warding off covid by his main character, Holly the detective. Apparently news arrives slowly in fly over country.
She’s double tapped, germphobic, masking and using gloves. Confirms vaxx status of those she encounters, since her anti-vaxx mother recently died of Covid during the Epidemic of the Unvaxxed. Although she’s a smoker and her diet is varied among fast food drive through offerings, Covid infection is her biggest fear, not being cannibalized by octogenarian university professors.
They kill and render young victims into Healthy Aging products for their personal use, since sales would be prohibitive. (Teen blood can be bought and infused by wealthy immortalists today. Presumably, drained in a reputable medical clinic). They relish liver pate and brain parfait, soothe sciatica with adipose cream, put lead in the pencil from bone meal and juice in the joints from glandular stew.
In his Author’s Note, King disavows one health claim made for human offal by the retired Nutrition Science PhD, “The idea that eating human liver can cure Alzheimer’s, for example, is utter bullshit.” Leaving open dozens of other remedies Dr. Meat claimed for Human Snake Oil.
Older Americans pursuing longevity and healthy aging are portrayed as cannibals, (or surreptitious pot smokers with the lamest stoner jargon). Aging Anti-vaxxers are not just robbing youth of future social security, but their current existence. It’s a perfect metaphor for their Sudden Death from the mandatory jabs to save granny. Not one King intended.
He still identifies with Holly’s beliefs about covaxxes, (even as that castle’s air foundation wisps away), but “likes to think I would give fair representation” to an anti-vaccination character. He’s made two of them cannibal villains, with useful idiots chiming in from behind counters. Essential workers, unlike detectives.
King has a research assistant, but apparently went with corporate consensus on covaxxes. She did tutor him on the history of cannibalism recited by Dr. Meat, mostly historical and anthropological reports, (not its health benefits, other than staying alive).
Revulsion over cannibalism was baked into war propaganda long ago. The war on Anti-Vaxxers is being waged with outrageous propaganda, now we’re cannibals and terrorists. Jumping the shark of beheaded babies, one hysterical Zionist on a Next Door “debate” claimed Hamas terrorists had paused in their killing, raping and capturing to bake a baby and cut off a Jew’s fingers to fry them like Kosher sausages. Definitely not Halal.
Long ago, I devoured a scholarly book on The Man Eating Myth, whose author spent decades tracking down eyewitness reports of cultural cannibalism.* Long story short, there weren’t any. Survivalism, sure. Western reports were based on indigenous rumors of tribes somewhere over there, beyond the pale. Bogeymen. Every culture has them.
For Europeans these reports provided license to loot, pillage and enslave barbaric, subhuman cannibals. Legally enshrined in papal law, bull, and royal factotum. Naturally, the New World was rife for the picking with people picklers from fierce Carib to Aztec skin doctors, early victims of this palate policy. Those tales linger in the public imagination like Donner Party survivors.
The first eye witness report of cannibalism in the North America was of Spanish survivalists who didn’t. Cabeza deVaca, one of the four survivors of Narvaez’ ill fated invasion of La Florida in 1527, wrote a popular narrative on his return to Spain 15 years later.
Barely Escaping warlike Appalachee by log rafts, capsized on tough Texas shores, he joined hungry volunteers accepted and trained as food foragers by a nomadic Karankawa tribe. A stubborn group that stayed behind on the beach, certain they would be eaten, began killing the weakest and feasting, until the last one died of starvation, surrounded by food.
Immune Resistance Koan: Activate your oral biological survival circuit by sucking your teeth, or gums if that’s what’s left. Tongue pushing and pulling reshapes your palate. Salivary glands secrete alkaline reserves, neutralizing acid head bacteria. Nasal cavities drain into the back of your throat, feeding endothelial biome from mouth to Uranus. Pull not gargle with coconut oil in the AM, colloidal silver in the PM. Self soothing sucking. Natural Breath Arises. Fear subsides. Mind resides on mirrored surface.
Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson, New Falcon Publications, 1983
The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, William Arens, Oxford University Press, 1980
A Flash of Green or Who Killed Jack Kerouac, Stephen Simac, Paradise Press, 2023