The government wants us to bow down to its dictates.
It wants us to buy into the fantasy that we are living the dream, when in fact, we are trapped in an endless nightmare of servitude and oppression.
Indeed, with every passing day, life in the American Police State increasingly resembles life in the dystopian television series The Prisoner.
First broadcast 55 years ago in the U.S., The Prisoner—described as “James Bond meets George Orwell filtered through Franz Kafka”—confronted societal themes that are still relevant today: the rise of a police state, the loss of freedom, round-the-clock surveillance, the corruption of government, totalitarianism, weaponization, group think, mass marketing, and the tendency of human beings to meekly accept their lot in life as prisoners in a prison of their own making.
Perhaps the best visual debate ever on individuality and freedom, The Prisoner centers around a British secret agent who abruptly resigns only to find himself imprisoned in a virtual prison disguised as a seaside paradise with parks and green fields, recreational activities and even a butler.
While luxurious, the Village’s inhabitants have no true freedom, they cannot leave the Village, they are under constant surveillance, all of their movements tracked by militarized drones, and stripped of their individuality so that they are identified only by numbers.
“I am not a number. I am a free man,” is the mantra chanted in each episode of The Prisoner, which was largely written and directed by Patrick McGoohan, who also played the title role of Number Six, the imprisoned government agent.
Throughout the series, Number Six is subjected to interrogation tactics, torture, hallucinogenic drugs, identity theft, mind control, dream manipulation, and various forms of social indoctrination and physical coercion in order to “persuade” him to comply, give up, give in and subjugate himself to the will of the powers-that-be.
Number Six refuses to comply.
In every episode, Number Six resists the Village’s indoctrination methods, struggles to maintain his own identity, and attempts to escape his captors. “I will not make any deals with you,” he pointedly remarks to Number Two, the Village administrator a.k.a. prison warden. “I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.”
Yet no matter how far Number Six manages to get in his efforts to escape, it’s never far enough.
Watched by surveillance cameras and other devices, Number Six’s attempts to escape are continuously thwarted by ominous white balloon-like spheres known as “rovers.”
Still, he refuses to give up.
“Unlike me,” he says to his fellow prisoners, “many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.”
Number Six’s escapes become a surreal exercise in futility, each episode an unfunny, unsettling Groundhog’s Day that builds to the same frustrating denouement: there is no escape.
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Two comments: (1) Ike nailed it. (2) I’m prisoner Number 777.
You might find this essay on The Prisoner, which I wrote for PJ Media some years ago, to be relevant.
That is a powerful statement by a president. Too bad we dont have any charactor left in the nation with that attitude.
The whole of this globohomo worldwide regime is all in our demise, we are the last of the Mohican’s as far as being armed to the teeth. They want to turn us into another Australia or New Zealand, that is the only reason we are not in their fema camps or dead. HTFU and let’s get serious.
This might be a good question for us all to ponder: Does SSN still stand for Social Security Number or does it now stand for State Surveillance Number?
May I ask a very dark and evil question:
What if the Prisoner had decided to kill all the other prisoners? After all, they all betrayed him.
How would the government have reacted?
Part of the “village” mystique, was that you could never be sure who were the prisoners, and who were the imprisoned. There are wardens everywhere, and the inmates are a huge asset to protect. There are no weapons, and you will be seen making one. You could likely reach out and throttle someone, but someone *big* would intervene very quickly. If you had talent (talent unknown to the village, which has your full bio), you could likely kill someone once with a fork, but not two people.
As far as I remember they all lived in normal houses and all had the normal cutlery.
And second. The hero of the show was a special agent, that means he was trained to kill.
So, unless they had cameras in every house he could have visited them at home and killed them there -- one after another.
Good point about him being trained to kill, but perhaps they knew his ethics well enough to trust that he would not kill what he saw as an innocent.
Yes, multiple cameras and microphones in *every* house, or any other building, or public space, including parks. There was an episode where he found a couple areas out of camera reach in the forest periphery where he built a raft once…. but it turned out they knew all about it.
I see John Rutherford and I (and you) are all on the same wavelength. I just started rewatching The Prisoner and was amazed at how many of the pinpoint accurate nuances I had forgotten. For example, in the second episode, #2 talks about how The Village is a model for “one world government”, to which #6 replies, “Yes, the whole world is the village”. Yikes! Not too bad for a program that we got to see only because they needed a summer replacement for “The Jackie Gleason Show!. (Yes, I saw it ‘live’ in its orignal US tv run!)
One of the best jobs they have done, is to not realize we are prisoners and only have the illusion of freedom. Liberty was lost a long time ago.
D Rockefeeler described this in Memoirs.
They are almost done building their digital gulag for us proles. This video is a very good summary of how we got here:
https://rumble.com/v29fe34-covid-19-the-biodefense-mafia.html
Every man and woman should take the time to watch this.
No covid shot, no social security. They’re thinking about it. Take a lot with you, Gramps!
Bring it. We’re thinking about it.
Another point often missed is every episode has a different #2. This was the message that the face of the state might change but its ultimate nature dies not.
Interestingly, in Ep 2, Six was having tea with Two who told him that the Village is the blueprint for “world order”.
Yes, rebellion comes at a cost but so does obedience.
Ike was involved in clearing the Bonus Army out of DC. He was part of the enforcement arm of a dictatorial government.