July 2005, the CCRU comes into possession of a letter written to Andrew Davenport, the creator of the British children's TV show 'Teletubbies.'
In this shocking text, it is implied that Davenport is a student of the "arcane sciences" responsible for engineering a medium for transmitting blatant (whereas they should be occulted or hidden) demonic messages to children, or, more specifically, "spread[ing] Pentazygonic Lemurianism among the world’s infants..." regarding very particular rituals of "Sumatran time sorcery " (of course consistent with the Lemurian Time Wars tied up with Burroughs, explicated by the CCRU elsewhere).
Horrendous, but not beyond belief...
However, this is merely the tip of the firery-brimstone-iceberg, and getting bogged down in a Tele-hermeneutical swamp (a swamp overlooked by a Bataillean-Schreberian sun baby of course) obscures the real cryptic Lemurian war/time machine churning in the deep, infecting our children.
Today I expose the true Lemurian demonism - PBS Kids television programming from the late 90s and early 2000s.
PBS Kids in the 90s / early 2000s
To begin: Teletubbies was on from 1997 to 2001 and aired on PBS Kids in America. Could there have been 'something in the air,' so to speak, in regard to what else was 'on the air?'
To see, lets look at what else played on PBS television between or around these years.
- Kratt's Creatures 1996 - 1996
- Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago 1996 - 1997
- Zoboomafoo 1999-2001
- Dragon Tales 1999-2005
- Zoom 1999 - 2005 (a remake of a 1972 show)
- [all of which overlap with the CCRU, 1997-2003]
So what is the significance of this?
The 'Kratt' in Kratt's Creatures (a signifier itself phonetically [Krr - Ttt] similar to the hyperstitional content of the CCRU, i.e. Krako, Krakatoa, Katak, Tchattuk, Kuttadid, etc. - one could re-imagine the show as Kratture or Kratkreatur - K/C, R, and U all being important resonating symbols...) is in reference to Martin and Chris Kratt, brothers and creators of not only this 'creature' show - which itself suggests something demonic - but more importantly Zoboomafoo, which, though the core of our discussion, will be set aside for a moment. For the time being all we need to state about Zoboomafoo is that it is our content (as opposed to form).
As opposed to Zoboomafoo, the shows Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago, Dragon Tales, and Zoom are not significant due to their content but are significant due to the form or expression of content they imply. That is, they serve as signifiers on a chain (or plane of consistency, i.e. PBS [plane-BS] referring to the consistency of a certain cultural milieu. Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago is the only title that requires editing. From this show title we will extract the the signifier most relevant to us - Time - and place it along side Dragon Tales and Zoom.
Time-Zoom-Dragon-Tale.
What is meant by 'consistency of a certain cultural milieu' can be demonstrated by the following hermeneutic schizo-association: Carmen Sandiago travels through time and needs to be found (temporal fragmentation, or schizophrenic deterritorialization requiring the desire of an other to reterritorialize it upon an odeipal plane). Time, or temporality, and time travel - templexity - are important themes of not only the CCRU, but also one of its chief researchers and co-founders of the CCRU, Nick Land. Dragon Tales, in addition to being a show were discussing here, is an unrelated E-Book of compiled magazine column's on China and Chinese culture by Nick Land which can be purchased alongside another Land E-Book "Templexity; Disordered Loops Through Shanghai Time." Here, in a few moves, we've connected two of of our shows and their themes (disordered time/time travel/dragon tales/China...). Meanwhile, in regard to Zoom, a 'kids show made by exclusively kids,' in our current cultural landscape (and the fact that it is the remake of a show from 1972 is important as 1972 is the year Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia is published), a Zoomer is essentially a contemporary Boomer (which, as my own blog post has covered, Nick Land is often polemically called), the slight difference being whereas a Boomer is an old conservative who is tech-resistance, a Zoomer is a Boomer - a kid sometimes - who is tech savy. The further connection here is that Boomers (supposedly Land and his followers), so it is implied, tend to be accelerationists, and accelerationist memes tend to riff on the Sonic the Hedgehog catch phrase 'Gotta Go Fast,' i.e., Zoom. Zoomers are fast boomers, or, in other words, Zoomer contains Boomer, the supposed followers of accelerationism, and a notion of speed (and therefore time) in one semiotic package.
On the one hand, mundanely, and as pointed out by the CCRU, the 90s, lurching each day closer towards the singularity of Y2k, was a time of techno-anxiety and accelerating culture, so its no surprise we see these themes reflected in children's television during the decade. On the other, it could be the case that something hyperstitional occurred, and that random patterns in thematic content autoproduced, gained resonance, and realized themselves. In other words, either the CCRU picked up on themes in the culture, or hyperstitioned these themes into being to begin with. Whichever way the temporal vector runs (and for templexive and hyperstitional phenomenon, it is precisely the point that it runs both ways...), we have the connections laid out bare. Now to get back to Zoboomafoo.
Zoboomafoo and Numerology
So why Zoboomafoo? What is its importance? Is it as demonic as I make it out to be?
Observe the picture below.
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| (note the watch on the wrist of Kratt 1 placed in close proximity to the lemur. Time anyone?) |
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| Look into my eyes sweet child |
Here is the summary of the show from Wiki:
"it features a talking Coquerel's sifaka [species of Lemur - notice again the C/K/R resonance] named Zoboomafoo...Every episode begins with the Kratt brothers in Animal Junction, a peculiar place in which the rules of nature change and wild animals come to visit and play [my italics]."
So two men, brothers (who look like twins but arent, and whose sisters are twins...syzygy and its mirror unsyzygy, anyone?), cooperate with a talking, sentient Lemur who brings to being a sort of state of becoming, a (dis / con ) junction, where typical rules (perhaps time and space) cease to apply.
This is a fucking time traveling Lemur, folks.
Before we get too deep into this, let's just look at the lemur's name.
Zoboomafoo would seem to break down into a few different linguistic units based on etymology and phonemes (these are associations loosely based in theory, the reader should feel free to speculate and add in the comments section...):
1: zo - boo - ma - foo
- a: zo = Zoe, the Greek name that means 'life.'
- b: boo = a cry
- c: ma = mother, or an important Chinese tone that refers to mother, horse, hemp, or scold
- d: foo = fool
This is inadequate, however. Here is a better association:
2: zo - (bo[o)ma] - foo
- a: zo = Zoe, the Greek name that means 'life.'
- b: bo/o = a sound that a ghost makes
- c: o/ma = Greek suffix (as seen in Soma, carcinoma, etc.), i.e. the body and its productions
- d: foo = foe, or 'blood feud'
This second associative analysis is much more pertinent to the idea of Lemur which, as the CCRU points out, etymologically breaks down into Ghost or Spirit.
So, 2.a and 2.b are dialectical - Life and death, or, more accurately, unlife.
2.b, unlife, as derived from 2.a, is now consistent and dialectical with 2.c, for, spirit is, as Deleuze and Guattari point out, an incorporeal aspect of a corporeality; spirit is not a mere abstraction, but an articulation of material, of soma.
Finally, 2.d, which consists of blood, the vital material of the soma, and feud, which is the romantic conflict between the body and the mind, material and spirit, etc., conceptualized by the poets and philosophers throughout the ages.
In other words, Zoboomafoo refers to a bloody struggle of a spirit between life and death, or between modes of becoming or planes of existence, or War - Lemurian Time War.
It is my belief that the name was chosen for the Lemur, on a human register, randomly based on human patterns of information processing, linguistic association, aesthetics, and material limits of the larynx, mouth, etc. 'Zzee' as a sound was chosen as it was silly, goofy, unique, least used letter, etc. and would attract a child's interest both educationally and casually. Zzee morphed into Zooo through association with Zoology, or Zoo, that is, animals. A linguistic unit that rhymes with Zoo was then sought and boo was found. Z and B are phonetically and materially close (plosives, palette position), and, additionally, B is the second letter of the alphabet, an unintentional juxtaposition with Z, the last letter. Ma or Oma was then utilized - well, I am not sure - but I can guess because it is lyrical and poetical, or, in other words, fit the cadence. Za - boo - ma (ma raises the intonation back up from the valley of boo) - (a rhyme, again). Foo was then, again, chosen due to its rhyme. So, the Kratt brother's created a character that appeals to the sentiments of children - rhymes, lyrical shifts in intonation, etc. However, they unintentionally summoned - or made a fiction into reality - an associative chain covering Ghosts, the body, and blood, and life (which, in addition to invoking themes of war, seems to invoke Christian occultist themes, the body and blood of Christ, the holy spirit incarnate, who gave his life to save us).
On a different note, a website "Name Echo" claims to 'uncover the hidden meanings behind names' through a kind of pop-application of basic, common knowledge numerology and entry level hermeneutics. This website reminds us that 'O' and F correspond to 6...
Z o b o o m a f o o / z = 8 o = 6 b = 2 o = 6 o = 6 m = 4 a = 1 f = 6 o = 6 o = 6
- 8 6 2 6 6 4 1 6 6 6
- 8 2 4 1 / - 6 6 6 / 6 6 6
What sense is to be made of 8241 is beyond me, but surely the doubly appearing (or twinning) marks of the beast speak for themselves.
(Tune in for Part 2 sometime later this year which will reveal some suspicious and incriminating primary documents associated with PBS, the Kratt Brothers, and Zoboomafoo...)
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