I’m not a studio rock guy. I like house music. However at times the poetry and message carries through the strains and lyrics to strike a chord and induce a cathartic inspiration.
It was while at the 24 Hour Fitness gym doing some bench press that the song came over the canned radio. It was Bad Wolves covering Zombie, originally by the Cranberries way back in 1994. It had a guy singing, sounds like Nickelback or Staind or any of that crap, but the message came through anyway.
You see, when as I was growing interested in a career working intelligence, I had a mentor arrive out of the cloud and explain some complicated things to me. He was a bi-polar Zen Buddhist, a MANIC+ hypervisory intelligent agent, and the son of a United States Air Force Brigadier General. Oh yeah, and after graduating at the top of his class from George Mason University, he went on to teach computer science at Harvard, where he was conscripted by MIT to a think tank doing cybersecurity consultation for Department Of Defense. His project was defending against high-density ICBM attacks.
He called himself #GUROOT, which is to say ‘guru’ or spiritual teacher, and ‘root’ or administrator level access in a Linux based computer operating system. #GUROOT told me this, and I’ll never forget: WWI was on the land, WWII was in the sky, WWIII was in space, WWIV was in cyberspace, and the current war, WWV is in the BIOSPACE.
Sounds like the crazy rant of a madman, but he was right. I began to personally experience this war happening in the biospace, as he suggested. It seemed like madness, but there is a reason for that happening, a reason only decipherable by those versed in Cyberspiritual Security. In short, the explanation is due to the technological mission creep utilizing the processing capabilities of the human domain to further and further calculate increasingly complex quantum mathematics. Therefore, we return to the topic at hand.
It’s the same old theme
In two thousand eighteen
In your head, in your head, they’re still fightin’
With their tanks, and their bombs
And their guns, and their drones
In your head, in your head, they are dyin’
The question remains: What’s in your head, zombie? Are you awakening to the truth? That perhaps the war and rumor of war was and always will be just in your head. Did you realize that you are not in the world, but the world is in you? That you are no longer a victim of circumstance, but the central operator in the field of dreams? What will come next after World War Five is over? Does it just begin again, a vicious cycle with no end?
In the Cranberries version, the year mentioned is 1916, which is the year America entered WWI. Bad Wolves updated the song’s lyrics to reflect that the same zombie mentality exists over one hundred years in the future. Through this comparison, one may become aware of planetary progress as a mere illusion, that the technological and societal upgrades are mere fronts for the same war that has been waged since time immemorial.
DJ_Mission | IN DA MIX!!! 