For those who believe in things like the deep state, and that they control everything now, I don't want to alarm you. But I have a theory. I call it my Emmanuel Goldstein theory. After the character in the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", and elsewhere. I actually may have first been introduced to the idea in the 1987 TV miniseries "Amerika". But you know, they kind of allude to it in Star Trek TOS's The Return of the Archons (Season 1, Episode 21). I first saw that episode when I was still a little kid. The deep state has enemies. But they work for the state. They are just another part of the system in other words. I'm serious. The deep state then is basically just criticizing itself, so to speak. And this next one may sound weird. But these operatives may even do things like letting themselves get beaten up from time to time. Like in protest marches for example. It's just a couple of bruises. You know, my father was telling me once how union organizer Walter Reuther was beaten up at an overpass by the Ford factory in 1937. This happened in Detroit where I live. The cameras were rolling. It just seemed odd to me that Ford Motor Company would do that in front of cameras for all to see. It still seems odd to me. But it helped the union cause in the US in the long run. Maybe that was intended to. I don't know. I know in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" they had the Two Minutes Hate. In The Return of the Archons they had the Red Hour. In "Amerika", I remember, they had a riot. Which you later find out is actually caused by the occupying Soviet state. You find out at the end of the scene. Actually that last one may be more a case of a deep state doing something to allow its citizens to let off a little steam. But I think it's the same idea.
