Josh Harris exposed the elite agenda of cybernetics in 1999...total insanity

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We Live in Public

Harris is the focus of director Ondi Timoner's documentary film, We Live In Public, an entry at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary was awarded the Grand Jury Prize award in the US documentary category at the festival.[5] Among Harris' experiments featured in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 volunteers in a human terrarium under New York City, with many webcams following and capturing every move they made.[6] This concept was later stopped by the New York Police Department.[7] On the Swedish tv-show "Kobra", Harris stated that he had been widely influenced by the 1998 movie The Truman Show.[8] He strongly believes that the technological singularity will be reached and the human being will cease to be an individual, while the machine becomes the new king of the jungle.[9] After his human terrarium experiment, Harris started filming and broadcasting himself at his home with his girlfriend at the time, which eventually led to a breakup.[7][6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Harris_(internet)


Back in 1999, Harris hired Timoner to document his millennial bunker project in Manhattan, an audacious Big Brother-style social experiment filled with 150 volunteer human lab rats. Everything they did was recorded on CCTV cameras. Everyone could tune in to watch each other having sex, taking a shower or sitting on the toilet. Amazingly, there was even a shooting range with live ammunition. The perfect ingredients for a dystopian disaster movie. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6877690.ece


This experiment exposed the dehumanization and insanity of the surveillance economy being built all around us with the militarization of the Internet, the fusion centers, the Target special operations centers, NRO, NSA, Billions of phone calls and emails going into data mining systems.

Josh exposed all of it and the fact that it is a total failure, will continue to pose a threat to humanity itself and extremely attractive to the elite class who believe they have the right to force people into these ant farms and manipulate outcomes.

GE/MSNBC's Lock up is a similar type of project which is a crime against humanity based on the god given rights expressed in the 4th, 1st, and 5th amendments. There are numerous other examples of this.

Watch the movie "We Live in Public" and then watch the movies "The Killing Room" and "The Stanford Prison Experiment"...you do not need to be Nostradamus to see why Napolitano, Lute, Gates, Lynn, and others are desperate to appease their puppet masters by pushing the dehumanization agenda that Josh exposed in 1999.

The movie 'We Live in Public" shows why the PA schol has mandated spying on the students, it is the next leg of the human experimentation. It shows why all cell phone cameras can be turned on by psychopath Jane Lute or others. It shows why top DHS agents are using their employees as abused sex slaves with IBM electronic slave collars.

But the public is getting sick of it and they no longer can make it cool. So top corporations are now being convinced that there is an economy behind this electronic surveillance enslavement (which is a lie):

See:  PA Terror List EXPOSED: ADL/Israeli Firm contracted to target peace activists

Working Paper III:

The
 Political 
Economy 
of 
Israel’s 
Homeland


Security/Surveillance
 Industry

by Neve Gordon*
April 28, 2009

•   Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, ngordon@bgu.ac.il

Introduction: Experiencing Horror

“No other advanced technology country has such a large proportion of citizens with real time experience in the army, security and police forces,” reads a glossy government brochure entitled Israel Homeland Security: Opportunities for Industrial Cooperation.1 In the brochure’s chapter called “Learning from Israel’s Experience” one reads that, “Many of these professionals continue to work as international consultants and experts after leaving the Israel Defense Forces, police or other defense and security organizations. Typically, these former officers, who also include scientists and engineers, not only have hands-on experience and know-how of traditional security activities, they are also familiar with the broad range of high-tech technologies and equipment, which are available to enhance safety and make security systems more efficient and effective.”2

The Israeli experience, in other words, is considered to be integral to Israel’s homeland security, one that provides it with a comparative advantage as it competes in the global markets. Indeed, experience is a pervasive trope in the brochures and websites marketing Israeli homeland security products and services.  Nonetheless, the Israeli experience is deployed in an interesting way, a way that is rarely discussed in the “experience economy” literature.3 “Experience economy” routinely refers to the phenomenon of people purchasing experiences from fitness clubs, touring agencies, theaters, concert halls, and the like, where these businesses promise to engender memorable events for their customers.

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And what did Josh do after these cybernetic experiments nearly drove him and 100 others completely insane?

He became an apple farmer for 5 years. Maybe our own insanity as a country with our rush to the iPad of future can be cured if we go back to our agrarian roots. Is that why the elites are killing the American faming abilities? He then came back and tried pitching more dot com ideas involving willful surveillance but failed. Now he lives in Ethiopia without even an answering machine teaching orphans basketball and other things. He says he has discovered humanity in the oldest culture on the planet after growing up all his life around people who had none. He is almost a John the Savage character in Brave New World.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2009
Josh Harris and QUIET: We Live In Public
http://stevenkaplannewyork.blogspot.com/2009/08/josh-harris-and-quiet-we-live-in-public.html



The recent commercial release of We Live In Public, a documentary film by Ondi Timoner (which won a Grand Prize at Sundance in January and also screened in April at New Directors/New Films at MoMA), has focused attention on Josh Harris, the erstwhile dot.com millionaire who presided over Jupiter Communications and Pseudo TV, and who funded various downtown New York arts projects in the late 90s and early noughties, culminating (at least for me) with QUIET: We Live in Public.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY&feature=player_embedded

QUIET was a heady but deranged bit of social sculpture, enlisting 150 artist/participants to live communally in a bunker housed on three floors of a loft building at 353 Broadway at the end of 1999. It envisioned a Brave New World of surveillance, control and loss of privacy, both predicted and facilitated by the Internet. Harris imagined that these long standing dystopian issues would be given technological feasibility through an interlocking network of computers and webcams. It would re-invigorate the pan- in Panopticon.

Harris had the prescient, net head epiphany of an early adopter, imagining a world of online social networking before there was actual broadband technology to make it possible. His vision, conceptualizing the emergence of all-encompassing public interaction online, predicted Web 2.0 sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook a decade early.

In December 1999, I was one of the pod people, living in a sub-basement warren of tiered sleeping capsules, like a Japanese tourist hotel or something out of William Gibson, sleeping pallets with room for just a mattress and alarm clock. Each was also equipped with its own camera and pivoting TV monitor. We could not only tune into various live feeds being recorded and broadcast within the compound. We were also constantly on camera, producing our own flow of images. Anyone at the central control booth could watch as we ate, shat, argued, made art, f**ked, etc. Theoretically, anyone in the bunker, at any time, could tune into anyone else in the bunker.



We were waiting for the Millennium to change everything, prepping for the mother of all New Year's parties. Because in late 1999, people thought the computers would inevitably crash when the clocks turned from 19__ to 20__. Things would just go plumb haywire. Data would be irretrievably lost. Banks would lose their assets. Credit would fail. It was supposed to be the end of time, the beginning of a New Age. We were there at the cusp to confront a devolved reality after the machines imploded and left us with a post-apocalyptic, feral, dog-eat-dog world.

This sort of Luddite anticipation was grafted onto the larger panopticon structure of QUIET. We were the self conscious seeds of a new dystopia, and there were cameras everywhere to record us. Even in the bathroom. Even in the central shower console, multiple nozzles housed in a polyhedral plexiglass cage, where there was s-e-x.



There were communal meals and uniforms, bright orange Dickies work pants and grey work shirts silkscreened with logos by the Enger Brothers, Matt and Mark. There were various art projects: a gigantic RISK board by David Scher and Mike Ballou; a modular city/shrine by Alex Arcadia; Erik Parker's paintings; a walk-in sculptural installation by Aidas Bareikis; a shooting gallery by Alfredo Martinez (for guns, not dope); security interrogations presided over by Ashkan Sahihi. The entire video interface was installed by Fakeshop pioneer Jeff Gompertz.

Of course the end of the world did not come, as predicted, at 00:00:00 on January 1, 2000. Things never happen quite so simply. Although the cops did raid the place on New Year's Day and shut it down, mostly for the live ammo being fired in the shooting gallery. But the dot.com crash did not arrive until late 2000, when the first Internet bubble popped and wiped out most of Harris' fortune. By then he had wired his SoHo loft with over 30 cameras, so the total surveillance of QUIET became part of his daily life with his girlfriend. The toilet, the closet, the refrigerator each had its particular webcam. Things soon began to feel the strain.



Timoner's film, which I have not seen, is apparently merciless as it documents the implosion of Harris' personal life, while simultaneously according him the unquestioned status of a madman genius, an Internet idiot savant well ahead of his time. It also reveals him in his performance artist alter ego of "Luvvy", a shrieking clown with smeared makeup based on a character from the television sitcom Gilligan's Island, his favorite show growing up.


http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/

The film's very busy website, replete with downloadable widgets, Facebook and Twitter shares, screening information, theatrical dates, streaming video of interviews, photo albums, etc., is itself testimony to the total online connectivity and interactivity that Harris predicted. It includes this trailer: (see youtube link at the top of this post).

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Josh Harris: The Warhol of the web
He was a millionaire who lived his wild life online. Then he disappeared. Andrew Smith tracks down Josh Harris, the subject of a new documentary We Live in Public
 
Andrew Smith
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 November 2009 21.30 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/04/josh-harris-we-live-public



I couldn't have been more surprised to find Josh Harris in Ethiopia. In Manhattan in the mid-1990s, he had been "the Warhol of the Web" – one of the first internet multimillionaires, who took the $80m fortune he'd made and started to explore the possibilities and implications of this new technology, to the point of self-destruction. In the process, he became the focal point of the downtown New York scene that, for heady extravagance, rivalled anything from the 1960s or 1970s.

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In her film, she sees Harris as a warning of what our children might become, perpetually connected to millions but starved of intimate contact with a few. Curiously, Harris doesn't disagree with this, describing a childhood in which he drew most of his emotional sustenance from TV. Yet, for all that, I missed our evening sessions hugely when I returned from Awasa, and Timoner admits that she feels strong affection for him, too. He is what Malcolm Gladwell would call an "outlier", walking ahead in order to show us where we're going – and what we'll look like when we get there.

"Andy Warhol said that, in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," Harris told me. "But I think he misunderstood what was happening. I think what people are demanding is 15 minutes of fame every day. And mark my words, they will get it. That's where we're heading, whether we like it or not."

(Full article)

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Josh Harris got to his home in Ethopia the same way that Ted Kaczynski got to his shack in the woods... (minus the mind control). The same way we will all finally log off and head outside to experience connectedness to humanity, walking away from (or, pushed away from) the faux connectedness we get with 'facebook friends'.

Ted K. without the mind control was no different; overwhelmed by what he saw coming, and 'controlled' by those who sought to exploit his prodigious intelligence (an IQ of +170 at an early age), he 'checked out'.

The patented response to anyone who points to the internet, the loss of privacy, the proliferation of surveillance cameras on every street corner; to anyone who dares to reject the lightspeed embrace of technology in every nook and cranny of our lives is to call them "Luddites". But the term "Luddite" is actually a mischaracterization of the original Luddite's rejection - in my opinion it was not a rejection of scientific or technological advancement, but a rejection of advancement without regard for the consequences to humanity. Inhumane advancement.

Luddite
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/350725/Luddite

Luddite, member of the organized bands of 19th-century English handicraftsmen who rioted for the destruction of the textile machinery that was displacing them. The movement began in the vicinity of Nottingham toward the end of 1811 and in the next year spread to Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire.

The “Ludds,” or Luddites, were generally masked and operated at night. Their leader, real or imaginary, was known as King Ludd, after a probably mythical Ned Ludd. They eschewed violence against persons and often enjoyed local support. In 1812 a band of Luddites was shot down under the orders of a threatened employer named Horsfall (who was afterward murdered in reprisal). The government of Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool, instituted severe repressive measures culminating in a mass trial at York in 1813, which resulted in many hangings and transportations. Similar rioting in 1816 was caused by the depression that followed the Napoleonic Wars; but the movement was soon ended by vigorous repression and reviving prosperity.

The term Luddite is now used broadly to signify individuals or groups opposed to technological change.

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Among Harris' experiments featured in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 volunteers in a human terrarium under New York City, with many webcams following and capturing every move they made.[6] This concept was later stopped by the New York Police Department.[7]

If I remember rightly it was closed down on New Year's Day, Y2K, which is interesting timing.
The documentary does include a small amount of footage of a CIA "psychiatrist" who was working on the project in some way.  And Harris suggests on the audio commentary that the NSA was all over it as well.

Incidentally, did you know that Nico Haupt was one of the participants?  Haupt is in the film.  I presume the footage is not something he is proud of.

Watch the movie "We Live in Public" and then watch the movies "The Killing Room" and "The Stanford Prison Experiment"...you do not need to be Nostradamus to see why Napolitano, Lute, Gates, Lynn, and others are desperate to appease their puppet masters by pushing the dehumanization agenda that Josh exposed in 1999.

For those living in the UK, at the time of writing The Killing Room can be bought from play.com for £3.

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The link for the actual torrent file for this documentary is this -->> http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/5451797/We_Live_in_Public%5B2009%5DDvDrip%5BEng%5D-FXG.5451797.TPB.torrent

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The link for the actual torrent file for this documentary is this -->> http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/5451797/We_Live_in_Public%5B2009%5DDvDrip%5BEng%5D-FXG.5451797.TPB.torrent

This movie looks interesting.

From the intro:

"...hundreds of years ago the lions and tigers were kings of the jungle -- and then one day they wound up in zoos.  I suspect that we are in the same trap".