Philip Agee, born on 19th of january in 1935, was an ex-CIA officer who became a prominent critic of CIA policies, detailing his experiences in the text "Inside the Company: CIA Diary". Agee ultimately defected to Cuba, dying there in 2008.
Philip Agee (1935 - 2008) served as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer for eight years, joining the organization in 1960. He was assigned posts in Montevideo, Mexico City, and Quito, Ecuador.
Agee resigned from the CIA in 1968 following the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, in which the U.S.-supported government engaged in mass shootings and arrests of a crowd of more than ten thousand protesters. The same massacre also played a role in the political radicalization of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.
Agee moved to London and published "Inside the Company", a tell-all text that, among other things, detailed his work in spying on diplomats, engaging in illegal activity to force a diplomatic break between Ecuador and Cuba, naming President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez of Mexico, and President Alfonso López Michelsen of Colombia as CIA collaborators, and exposing the identities of dozens of CIA agents.
For the exposure of agents, Agee was expelled from the United Kingdom. Agee was also eventually expelled from the Netherlands, France, West Germany and Italy, and was compelled to live under a series of socialist governments - Grenada under Maurice Bishop, then Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and finally Cuba under Castro. Agee died in Cuba in January 2008.
"I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States.
That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States."
- Philip Agee
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is it weird that when i think a song is really good i imagine mecha battles to it? i feel like i'm more interested in mecha than is healthy, like theres a stupid psychological reason for it i'm not noticing. is it mechanized vore of some kind? body image issues leading to a desire for interchangeable, modular, nonhuman bodies? a way to mentally distance actual bloodshed (which makes me pass out even in fiction sometimes, i could not make it past the intro scene to reservoir dogs with the guy gutshot in the car) from my equally strange preoccupation with military topics? a weirdly aestheticked form of imaginative dissociation, creating the concept/archetype of a 'safety layer' between me and the world? am i a warfare oracle peering into the near future of human military conflict, destined to create or inspire the world's greatest war machines?
who knows, maybe i just think robots what have angsty little fleshy dudes inside them are neat. even something as simple as indirect vision systems (like periscopes, or head-tracking camera/targeting pods on airplanes/helicopters) are super cool to me.
Maybe it's really your subconscious responding to the connection between the concept of a human inhabiting a massive humanoid machine, like they are the soul to the metal flesh, to our mind as the pilot of our bloody mech body. It's a representation of the dualism of our spirit world and the material. Watching the clear separation between the two in the mech media, it activates an envy for the pilot, who can so easily be free of their metal cage, while we remain trapped in our shell.
but i want to be in the metal cage, it has cool MFD screens and joysticks. i want to hotbox the mecha cockpit while blasting soviet 80's disco/electro music and blasting space imperialists while weaving through debris and asteroids. the non-invasive fusion of flesh-borne will and mechanical precision. human and mechanical/digital systems acting as one.
speaking as someone who doesn't understand mechas, that's a pretty powerful image
the world needs to have a Cowboy Bebop of mecha animation with G-swing music instead of jazz/bebop.
Gundam Swing if you will
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