Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 8049 “ The funniest tweet of the quarter was the story announc- ing that NIH had approved cross- breeding human DNA with animal DNA. Somebody sent out a tweet saying, “Will somebody just please nuke us now?” ” say it all, what does? Apparently, Dr. Goebbels has his share of stock in the Washington Post. Anyway, we just have to start thinking in terms of particularly the mainstream media being a propaganda organ, and is it true? It’s the same thing, quite frankly, for the alternative media. Is it true? Fitts: Right. I find problems across the board. Farrell: Absolutely. I do, too. Fitts: I don’t participate with social media except for Twitter, and if anything is a populist tool, it’s Twitter. But the funniest tweet of the quarter was the story announcing that NIH had ap- proved crossbreeding human DNA with animal DNA. Somebody sent out a tweet saying, “Will somebody just please nuke us now?” Farrell: A possibility may occur – that our cous- ins out there somewhere may be looking at this earthly disaster and thinking, “It’s time we go down there again and put a stop to all of this.” Fitts: Right. This brought on the flood the last time. Farrell: That is exactly what I’m thinking, too. To a certain extent, the power elites after World War II would have known those speculations. In my opinion, the elites would probably have in- vestigated them and figured out, “If we go down this path, we had better be prepared for a poten- tial intervention. If we’re going to prepare for that, we had better be able to hold our own.” In other words, I’m suggesting that the elites have planned even for that eventuality, whether or not successfully. We must see everything now with a skeptic’s eye. We must. This is why I keep saying that we must own the culture. Owning the culture means, not only knowing that aspect of the culture that you want to preserve and hand down, but it’s a component of our culture. Our Judeo-Christian- Enlighten- ment-Humanist heritage and culture place the individual as sovereign over his own mind. So, we must be critical of everything we meet in the information sphere. Fitts: Right. That is one reason I want to see your pipe organ; you’re going to invite the sacred back into our world. Farrell: Absolutely. It’s the oldest keyboard instrument, preceding the harpsichord and the clavichord by hundreds of years. It’s the oldest keyboard instrument, and keyboard instruments – in turn – generated our modern Western tonal system of music. It is intimately bound in a deep way with our culture. Fitts: I don’t know if I told you this, but one of my great allies was saying, “Why are you helping Joseph get an organ?” I said, “Because I want to support his writing.” He said, “What does an organ have to do with his writing?” I said, “Because Joseph writes these incredible pieces, but it takes his life force out of him. He needs a way to build it back; that’s the pipe organ.” Farrell: That is true, very true. I have missed playing for many years. People always ask me, “Why is it that you con- nect dots so well? I have said consistently that it is because I grew up playing the organ and learn- ing a kind of multi-track music.” The organ is a multitasking instrument; it’s not something you want to try to learn if you dislike multitasking. It teaches you to recognize a pat- tern in different contexts and to recognize how the pattern changes. Fitts: If you observe the footboard and the key- board and the whole thing, it’s an ecosystem fractal instrument. Farrell: Yes it is. Precisely. Fitts: Cyber insecurity gets worse and worse. We’re betting the ranch on reengineering every- thing with systems, and every quarter the systems get more insecure. Warfare is automating the physical zone and then moving online with a passion. Do you have any thoughts on cyber in- security other than the fact that it is rising? Farrell: Oh, yes. Absolutely I do. I was stunned