Where They Built the Bomb

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Philosophy

4.8 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet — the high-desert plateau around Los Alamos is real nice, at an elevation of 7,320'.

Lots of people have fallen in love with the climate and clean dry air up there, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer & Gore Vidal & William S. Burroughs. Burroughs was supposed to be a War Captain, following orders, but it never quite worked out that way. Instead, he would go to war with Human Language . . . using the weapon of the oppressor.

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0:00.0	Transmitting from the Mojavee Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.
0:10.1	Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.
0:17.2	Night has fallen on the desert.
0:20.6	It's one of those summers like we always have now.
0:25.7	It's just too hot.
0:30.6	Let's do a Manhattan project to fix the damned climate.
0:37.8	How about that?
0:39.8	Just quietly get it done behind the scenes.
0:49.0	Governments cannot do anything really today, but enrich the defense contractors, so we will have to do it ourselves.
1:02.0	Do you know what to do?
1:05.0	More or less, we'll have a secret meeting. Keep your ears open. Meanwhile, encourage people to keep arguing about it. Pay them a few grand a month, cover every angle, keep them out of trouble, off the streets, out of sight.
1:29.9	Keep them on Twitter.
1:33.2	Some of them.
1:46.2	Some on Twitter, some on whatever Facebook garbage product, some on AM radio weekday call-in shows. They still have those.
1:55.9	And let's have somebody standing on the corner with a cardboard sign with a weird message with all the words spelled wrong.
2:05.9	Let's just continue with the planned obsolescence and controlled demolition of the Tower of Babel.
2:12.7	Does anybody know the story of the Tower of Babel anymore?
2:26.0	Did anybody here go to Sunday school? Well well it's a real short story it's about the length of an instagram caption meaning four paragraphs of tiny text let's read it together so we can better understand the references that older people
2:38.8	occasionally make in their newspaper op-ed columns.
3:02.5	Thank you. The Tower of Babel, Genesis Chapter 11.
3:09.5	Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
3:17.6	As people moved eastward, they found a plane in Shinar and settled there.
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