I had the hardest time
keeping straight the connotations of copycat (CC) and Stand Alone
Complex (SAC). There are many instances in GiTS where the harmonious
acts are completely manipulated in a synthetic version of SAC. But in
the background there is the likelihood that some ensemble of like minded
individuals just happen to show up on the same roof top with swords or
the like.
Then I came up with the perfect metaphor, the Illuminati is an SAC. We have no problem believing that Warren Buffet and Bill Gates wield tremendous power as civilians. What strains belief is that these two, along with their friends would run naked in the redwoods and plot the continuing reality of world domination.
But that is not what happens. These individuals do not see themselves as members of an octopus that has tentacles in every important political, social, economic and scientific enterprise. You could put any member of the Illuminati in an fMRI (the 2037 model) and you would be completely unable to determine by exhaustive questioning that Warren Buffet was an Exhaulted Friar in the Illuminati. He acts just like an Exhaulted Friar without knowing that he is one. He puts himself under obligation to carry out various business deals because by temperament and training and guile and a keen sense for woman flesh, he is in every single aspect an Exhaulted Friar of the Western District of North America.
And that is how I think of an SAC. They are programed just like the rest of us. We cannot see inside ourselves with natural or prosthetic bodies. Because we are not members of the Illuminati.
Then I came up with the perfect metaphor, the Illuminati is an SAC. We have no problem believing that Warren Buffet and Bill Gates wield tremendous power as civilians. What strains belief is that these two, along with their friends would run naked in the redwoods and plot the continuing reality of world domination.
But that is not what happens. These individuals do not see themselves as members of an octopus that has tentacles in every important political, social, economic and scientific enterprise. You could put any member of the Illuminati in an fMRI (the 2037 model) and you would be completely unable to determine by exhaustive questioning that Warren Buffet was an Exhaulted Friar in the Illuminati. He acts just like an Exhaulted Friar without knowing that he is one. He puts himself under obligation to carry out various business deals because by temperament and training and guile and a keen sense for woman flesh, he is in every single aspect an Exhaulted Friar of the Western District of North America.
And that is how I think of an SAC. They are programed just like the rest of us. We cannot see inside ourselves with natural or prosthetic bodies. Because we are not members of the Illuminati.
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